本书节选了林语堂先生的一些不朽之作，并加以适当的解读赏析，使读者在享受文学盛宴的同时，也从林语堂的生活艺术中找到真正的生活之路。书中的林语堂将中国人旷怀达观、陶情遣兴的生活方式和浪漫高雅的东方情调皆诉诸笔下，向西方人娓娓道出了一个可供仿效的"完美生活的范本，快意人生的典型"，展现出诗样人生、才情人生、幽默人生、智慧人生的别样风情。( The book collects excerpts of some masterpieces of Mr. Lin Yutang and interprets them appropriately, so that readers can enjoy the literary feast while finding the true path of life from Lin Yutang's art of life. In this book, Lin Yutang tells Chinese people's optimistic and leisure life style and elegant oriental sentiment, explaining a model of perfect and happy life to the Western countries and showing the different beauty of poetic, literary, humorous and wise life.)