This book tells a girl's story. She came from a big city, than lives in a village. We can find that the oppidan want to live in a peaceful, natural and simple place.

本随笔集描写一个从城市到乡村去的女孩的个人生活，表示都市人向往简单自然宁静生活的情怀。

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You can read from the volumes for hours at a time, and when you are finished for the evening you can look around you and try to comprehend that all of this was taking place in the same nation where we live today.

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