«Code of bookshop, World Junior Literary Classics Library: Bacon’s essay», narrative essay is a kind of prose, different with lyrical prose, and different with LuXun essays or other essays, it is equivalent to some random thoughts, a bit like many Chinese poetry, poetry，almost same in format but different in content. Bacon’s essays are close to argumentative writing, relating to philosophy, religion, political system and life skills, self--cultivation, also known as the principle of human behavior, etc. In fact, “The Analects of Confucius” “Mencius” also belong to this essay, but they were recorded by the disciples of Confucius, Mencius. Because of different times, they are too concise, and their descendants gave strained interpretations and drew far-fetched analogies. But in this respect too detailed preaching, boring. Bacon’s essays can become famous, spread so far, because of its moderate length with some vivid stories and introduction, poetic and parable to illustrate some of the philosophy making the rich concentrated ideas famous aphorism, provoking and intriguing.
