Star-like writing, innocent person - stepping into Shen Congwen's "Border Town"

Author: Liu Yong
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: We dedicate this series of books to young friends, hoping that you can "walk into the classics!" During the compilation of this series, our primary focus was on revealing how classics are formed. While the classics created by masters are indeed great, the process of creating them is even more intriguing. The purpose of reading classics is twofold: to gain knowledge and to learn the unique qualities of these masters. The latter is more important than the former. Because more important than knowledge itself is how to acquire knowledge. Classics are not fossilized remains but living organisms. Our greatest hope is that when you put down the book, you can feel that the classics of these masters are vivid and lifelike, as if they are teachers and friends who have just walked away from you. Their kind and wise voices still linger in your ears. This series of books also includes timelines of the masters' lives and creative works, which is also for this reason. Another of our wishes is to interpret the classics in a vivid, fluent, and fresh manner. Truly classic works are profound yet accessible, discussing deep thoughts in simple language, with both intellectual brilliance and literary beauty. The text introducing the classics should inherit this style. This series of books also incorporates a large number of images selected in line with the content of the works, for the same purpose. Additionally, this series of books places special emphasis on the diversity and representativeness of the classics selected, choosing works from various fields such as literature, philosophy, sociology, painting, and music from all over the world, both ancient and modern. For each book introducing a classic, we focus on selecting the most important representative works of the masters while also considering the reading preferences of young readers. For example, Ba Jin's works are primarily introduced with Family rather than A Dark Night, Darwin's works with On the Origin of Species rather than The Descent of Man, and Charlie Chaplin's works with Modern Times rather than The Great Dictator, all of which are carefully selected.