《昆虫记》是法布尔的传世佳作，亦是一部不朽的世界名著。1923年，周作人在《晨报副镌》发表了他的《法布耳的〈昆虫记〉》，第一次向中国读者介绍了这部世界名著，而《昆虫记》更是得到了鲁迅先生的青睐。在这本书中，法布尔淋漓尽致而又妙趣横生地展现了上百种昆虫在十分复杂、冷酷无情的大自然环境中，坚忍不拔地为个休与族类的生存而不屈不挠地进行斗争的本性和它们在斗争中所表现出来的那种妙不可言的、惊人的灵性，他将昆虫世界化作供人类获得知识、趣味、美感和思想的美文，娓娓道来，字里行间洋溢着他对生命的尊重与热爱。
法布尔还以人性观照虫性，书中描写昆虫的本能、习性、劳动、婚恋、繁衍和死亡等，无不渗透着人文关怀；并以虫性反观社会人生，睿智的哲思跃然纸上。。为了便于青少年更好地理解，我们在每篇作品前添加了导读，或介绍作品的发表背景，或介绍作品的主要内容，或分析作品主要表达的思想，这使文章的可读性大大加强。希望本书能够丰富青少年的内心，成为青少年朋友学习的好伙伴。
(The Records about Insects is Fabre's masterpiece handed down from ancient times, and also is an immortal masterpieces in the world. In Supplement of Morning in 1923, Zhou Zuoren published his Fabre's The Records about Insects, and for the first time introduced this masterpiece to Chinese readers, and The Records about Insects has got the favour of Lu Xun. In this book, Fabre incisively and vividly shows the perseverance struggling instinct and the marvelous and amazing intelligence in the struggle of hundreds of species of insects in very complex, relentless nature environment. He changes the insect world to beautiful words where human can get the knowledge, interest, aesthetic feeling and thought. His respect for life and love is between the lines.
Faber also compares human nature view to insects'. This book describes the insects' instinct, habits, work, marriage, reproduction and death, etc. penetrating the humanistic care. He looks the human life with insects' instinct and the wise thought is vivid on the page. In order to make teenagers read more convenient, and have more profound understanding, we add an introduction before each article to either introduce publishing background of works, or introduce the main content of the work, or analyze ideas the works try to express, which improves the readability of the article. We hope this book can enrich young people's inner heart, and become good friends when young people learn out-of-class knowledge.
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