Gide is a writer who really accomplished "e;reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles"e;. Le Renoncement au Voyage selects representative works from his travel notes, in which Gide severely criticizes the colonial policy of France and reveals the inevitable evil consequences of the colonial system. In Gide's creation of travel notes, there is not only expression of his personal feelings, but also full political enthusiasm and sincere humanitarianism spirit. It occupies a very important position in his whole creative career. "e;Splendid Translations"e; is a brand new book series launched by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The book series is of clear theme and published in volumes with 5 works in each volume. Each volume has a beautiful cover in line with the theme style and the covers are designed by Mr. Zhou Weiwei, an excellent designer of the new generation. In terms of content, the book series makes full use of the powerful and widely-recognized translation resources of Shanghai Translation Publishing House to retrieve famous works to form the volumes. The theme of Volume I is "e;roaming"e;. It includes travel notes of five famous writers, namely Gide, Hemingway, Lawrence, Nagai Kafu and Maugham. The travel notes are Gide's Le Renoncement au Voyage, Hemingway's There Is Never Any Ending to Paris, Lawrence's Italians in Exile. Nagai Kafu's Kafu's Essays, and Maugham's His Britannic Majesty's Representative.
