The list of works
The philosophical works: Advancement of Learning《学术的推进》(1605) Novum Organum 《新工具论》(1620) New Atlantis 《新大西岛》(1624-1626) Literary works: Essays 《论说文集》(1597-1625) -- Includes "Adversity",
Features of Bacon’s essays
1. The language is very neat, pretty and weighty. 2. The sentences are very short. Bacon also likes to use more co-ordinate conjunctions than the subordinated ones, such as “as, since, because”. 3. Parallelism(并行论), epigrams(警句), metaphor (隐喻) and simile 4. Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity(简洁), compactness(紧密) and powerfulness.
"Anger", "Athiesm", "Boldness", "Cunning", "Death", "Discourse", "Dissimulation and Simulation", "Empire", "Envy", "Goodness", "Great Place", "Honor and Reputation", "Love", "Nobility", "Revenge", "Seeming Wise", "Superstition", "Truth", "Unity in Religion", "Vicissitude of Things", and "Wisdom for a Man's Self".