This book collects 80 famous modern essays, involving 30 authors such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Ziqing, Zheng Zhenduo, Lu Yin, Lao She, Lin Huiyin and Xiao Hong. The book is divided into two volumes, namely, describing scenery and narrating objects and describing people and events, which are arranged in the order of the authors’ birth time.