Whispers of Pure Love

Reader's ClubJilin University Press · ChinaApr 2025

Rating 2.4
Word count
84K words
Chapters
70

Tags

Motivation and Growth Celebrity LettersLove and LongingYearning HeartIntimate DialoguePure Love WordsRomanticismDeep AffectionTender SentimentPassionate LoveRepublican Romance

Summary

This volume includes such pieces as Deng Yingchao's I Miss You So Much, Yu Dafu's Spring Sorrow Like Water, Shi Pingmei's Looking Down in Melancholy at the Moon in the Water, Xu Guangping's Sir, Please Find a Way to Stay a Little Longer, Bai Wei's My Heart Suddenly Like a Falling Spark, Lu Yin's My Heart Is Uneasy, Han Jingqing's I Wish to Love You as You Love Me, Song Ruoyu's I Will Love You Forever in This Life, Zhang Zhaohe's I Can't Help but My Heart Race, Wang Yingxia's It Is Not Hard to Win a Woman's Heart Either, Ge Huaisi's The Life of My Soul Is Love, Somova's I Congratulate You, Madame Meck's Send Me a Photograph, Turgenev's The Rose, Tagore's The Champa Flower, Jules Michelet's The Girl and the Flower, Shi Pingmei's Melancholy After Waking, Lu Yin's The Beautiful Girl, Lu Yin's Men and Women, Lü Yi's How Lonely I Am!, Xie Ye's Why Can't I Be with You, Song Ruoyu's How Could I Let You Go, Lu Jingqing's How Cruel I Am to You, Bai Wei's I Miss You So Much and Hate You So Much, Tagore's I Will Write a Heartless Song, Ninon's Love Turns to Indifference, Vanesa's What Could Be Wrong with This, Vanesa's Touch Your Soul, Julie's Feeling Is Ruin for You and Me, and George Sand's Never Abandon It.

Editor's review

Pure Sentiments is an anthology of essays and letters by celebrated writers on the theme of love and emotion. It includes texts by Deng Yingchao, Yu Dafu, Shi Pingmei, Xu Guangping, Lu Yin, Bai Wei, Tagore, Turgenev, George Sand, and others, spanning letters, essays, and short sketches, and presenting confessions, longings, doubts, and farewells of love across different eras and cultural backgrounds. Its value lies in preserving the raw warmth of emotion through intimate first-person writing, in which readers can see the many faces of love, where passion and restraint coexist. Its strength is that the selections are short and emotionally concentrated, suitable for fragmented reading as well as for recitation and excerpting. For reading contexts, it suits slow reading when alone at night, or as supplementary emotional texts for writing classes and literature electives. Note that some letters carry the context of their particular era; readers would do well to appreciate their ways of expressing emotion as literature.

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Reading tips

  1. Read by author: start with familiar names, then expand to unfamiliar ones to compare differences in tone.
  2. Keep an excerpt notebook; after each piece, note the line that moved you most and write down why.
  3. Read the letters aloud to feel the voice and rhythm of private writing; it is easier to enter the emotion than silent reading.
  4. For pieces whose historical background is unclear, learn the author's basic biography first for a more accurate understanding.

About the publisher

Jilin University Press China · Founded in 1983

Jilin University Press is a comprehensive university press based in Jilin Province, China. Its publishing covers university textbooks, academic monographs and general-interest titles, with common categories including inspirational growth, foreign literature, mystery and detective fiction, history and classic works. The database contains 171 titles, including representative books such as Don Quixote, Jane Eyre, Selected Works of Chekhov, The Moon and Sixpence, The Lady of the Camellias, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Family Instructions of Master Yan and The Sorrows of Young Werther, spanning foreign literary classics and traditional Chinese texts. Its author resources include Chinese and foreign figures such as W. Somerset Maugham, Yan Zhitui, Lü Siming and Ba Jin, as well as editors and authors such as Study Group and Zhang Ying. The press has developed a certain character in introducing foreign literary classics and compiling traditional readings, balancing adolescent reading with academic popularization. As public information is limited, the above focuses on the publishing directions reflected in its database titles.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 女孩和花
  3. 我可想你得太
  4. 水样的春愁
  5. 低头怅望水中月
  6. 先生设法多住些时好
  7. 我的心突然像坠落的火星
  8. 我的心不安定
  9. 我愿爱你，像你爱我
  10. 我此生永远的爱你
  11. 总免不了要心跳
  12. 得着女人的心亦不难
  13. 我灵魂的生命就是爱情
  14. 我祝贺您
  15. 送我一张相片
  16. 玫瑰
  17. 金香木花
  18. 女孩和花
  19. 怨歌
  20. 醒后的惆怅
  21. 美丽的姑娘
  22. 男人和女人
  23. 我是怎样的孤零啊！
  24. 为什么我不能和你在一起
  25. 我怎么能把你丢开
  26. 我对你是何等的残酷
  27. 我太想你也太恨你
  28. 我要写无情的歌
  29. 爱情会变成没有感情
  30. 这能有什么错呢
  31. 打动你的心灵
  32. 那种感情对你和我是一大祸根
  33. 永远不要抛弃它
  34. 怨歌
  35. 我的憎恶
  36. 虚荣的紫罗兰
  37. 新的“女将”
  38. 论诚意
  39. 爱，是盲目的
  40. 生长在路边的蓟
  41. 马铃薯花
  42. “你不爱我？”
  43. 这一次，让我等你
  44. 圣诞玫瑰
  45. 领情是一种奉献
  46. 向异性朋友倾吐
  47. 莫怕多情
  48. 鹰和云雀
  49. 真正的魅力
  50. 怎样变得可爱
  51. 新偶像
  52. 怎样与女性相处
  53. 怎样与男性相处
  54. 虚荣的紫罗兰
  55. 爱情的生命
  56. 闻歌有感
  57. 第二度的青春
  58. 好好爱护自己
  59. 永久的同道
  60. 爱你胜过爱我自己
  61. 希望固然有
  62. 共同享有奇特的感情
  63. 我一生总是为你
  64. 全部奉献于你的灵魂
  65. 我多么地思念你
  66. 不要做婚姻的文盲
  67. 努力创造家庭幸福
  68. 生活是美好的
  69. 爱情的生命
  70. 其乐融融

FAQ

Is this book a novel or a collection of essays and letters? Judging from the contents, it consists mostly of famous writers' letters, lyrical essays, and short sketches; it is an edited collection rather than a novel with a continuous plot. Each piece can be read on its own, with no need to follow a story from beginning to end.
Can readers without a literary background understand it? Most pieces are short and plainly written, so beginning readers can read them directly. A few letters from the Republican period use wording and sentence patterns somewhat distant from today; where something reads awkwardly, slow down or rely on context—it will not affect overall understanding.
Is it suitable for use as writing material? Yes. The emotional expression is delicate and the sentence patterns varied, making it a reference for lyrical description and letter-form writing. When excerpting, record the author and title together and cite the source to avoid confusion.

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About the author

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Reader's Club is an editorial team in the field of book publishing rather than an individual author, and public information about its nationality, birth and death years is limited. The team mainly engages in the selection and compilation of literary anthologies, with 124 works held in the catalog, covering categories such as classic works, prose and miscellaneous writings, and inspirational growth. Representative works include Fate Volume, Love Sayings, Voices of Growth, Young Thoughts, Reflections on Life, Youth Volume, The True Meaning of Emotion, and Emotion Volume. Its selections focus chiefly on prose and fiction by renowned Chinese and foreign authors as well as emotional stories of notable figures, and are mostly published by Jilin University Press and Jilin Audio-Visual Publishing House. Overall, Reader's Club's editorial direction leans toward emotional reading and inspirational growth titles for general readers, offering an accessible path into Chinese and foreign literature and emotional narratives through selection and compilation.