Personal Library -- Tess

Author: (British) Hardy Zhang Jin
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The ancients said, "Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books." For modern people, traveling ten thousand miles is easy, but reading ten thousand books is difficult. The wheels of technology are sweeping across the world at an astonishing speed. The modern people, busy in front of computers and all kinds of machines all day, have turned the Earth into a village with wires, optical cables, tracks, or air routes. Clicking the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in the world. However, facing the vast civilization, without the foundation of reading ten thousand books, we not only frequently encounter the awkwardness of "meeting face to face but not recognizing each other," but we also keep accumulating the strangeness that comes from the depths of our hearts. For this, we long for a deeper understanding, a spiritual connection; we long for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in our spiritual backpack so that our steps and souls can go further. A spiritual journey does not require "writing poems in youth and exhausting oneself in studies in old age," nor does it require hanging the head on the beam, breaking through the wall to steal light, or having a red sleeve add fragrance while never putting down the book. A spiritual journey only requires reading a few classics in the leisure of life. Novels, essays, and poems can all be made into soup for the soul; buses, subways, and even the palm of your hand can be our desks. Therefore, we have tailored a "pocket library" for busy urban dwellers. Classics are the soul of the library; easy to absorb is the essence of the library; carrying it with you, reading anytime, anywhere, and in any way is the purpose of the library. The selected titles in the library are all the timeless classics that have been refined after exposing themselves to the harsh realities and waves of different civilizations; the illustrations, carefully selected and painstakingly collected from hundreds of rare books and private collections, are a true restoration of the essence of the classics. The small format design makes it as clever as a wallet; the special printing process makes every book "filled with the fragrance of osmanthus." Classics are not afraid of time, but life cannot withstand the erosion of "time flies." The charm of classics is better seen than heard. It is better to use them to mend the gaps in our time, to add value to the fragments of our days; it is better to use on-the-go reading to gather wisdom piece by piece, and to understand life in the spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least expense, to reach the furthest distance in life. Tess tells the story of how society pushed a pure, simple, honest, hardworking, intelligent, and beautiful rural girl to the brink of despair, ultimately leading to her murder. Her loss of innocence is mainly Alex's responsibility; her second fall into Alex's hands is her parents', Angel's, and Alex's responsibility, and her killing Alex is the last resistance of the oppressed and the weak. Throughout Tess, we see her pure nature struggling against the forces that her. In the end, she was forced onto the gallows, becoming a sacrifice on the altar, while society and readers were still coldly discussing her chastity—how callous the world is! Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in Upper Bockhampton, Dorset, England, and spent most of his life in his hometown of Dorset. On the occasion of Hardy's birthday, Dr. Winifred of the Department of Literature at Viveca University invited me to visit the birthplace of the great writer in Dorset. Dr. Winifred is not only an expert on the Bront? sisters but also has a deep study of Hardy. His lecture in London on "Hardy and Jane Austen," with its novel ideas and meticulous analysis, left a deep impression on me. Dr. Winifred，，。