该书为编辑家叶至诚的散文、随笔全集,共六辑,分别为《自嘲集》、《拾遗集》、《探求集》、《忆儿时》、《记双亲》、《学步集》,凝结了他一生的全部心血笔墨。叶至诚的文字,也与其为人一样,至真至诚。其子叶兆言在序中说,“父亲有很好的写作基础,少年时就出手不凡。父亲一生最大的遗憾,是没能痛痛快快地写出一大堆东西。父亲为文和为人一 The book is edited by Ye Zhicheng’s essay, essay, a total of six series, respectively, ”self-ridiculous set“, ”collection“, ”exploration set“, ”Memories of childhood“ , Condensed all the painstaking efforts of his life. Yecheng sincere words, but also with people, like the most sincere. Its leaves trillion words in the preface, said, ”father has a good writing foundation, juvenile shot extraordinary father’s greatest regret is not able to write a lot of things with great pain .Father for the text and man one