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Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 5, 10 volumes in English and Chinese
Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 5, 10 volumes in English and Chinese
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Penguin Classics: Little Black Book is a series of "literary pamphlets" launched by Penguin Publishing Group on its 80th anniversary. The selection is magnificent and rich, transcending the constraints of time and space to find masterpieces. The bilingual version published this time carefully selects 50 classic and contemporary works for Chinese readers from the original English version, and is released in five volumes.
The fifth series is the finale of the Little Black Book series. For the first time, a Chinese work that is deeply loved by foreign readers and has been posted the most is included, namely, the Qing Dynasty Pu Songling's collection of Liaozhai stories, The Cry of Ghosts. In addition to the comparison between classical Chinese and English, annotations and vernacular translations are also added. The fifth series includes as many as four female writers, including George Eliot, one of the most influential writers in British literary history, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a famous American feminist writer, Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Katherine Mansfield, the founder of New Zealand literature. They use literature to express their views and fight for equal rights. The works included in Little Black are all their pioneering works. Henry James's The Pattern on the Carpet and Nietzsche's last work, Why Am I So Smart, are also rare classics. Edward Lear's The Irrational Poetry and Darwin's natural history travel notes, Butterflies in the Sky, make this series more diverse in content and genre.
About the Author
★Pu Songling, also known as Liuquan Jushi, is known as Mr. Liaozhai. He is the author of the novel "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Guo Moruo once commented on him: "He is superior in writing about ghosts and monsters, and his criticism of corruption and cruelty is deep-rooted."
★Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist pioneer writer, publisher of The Pioneer Monthly, social critic, social activist, speaker, commercial artist, and teacher.
★Edith Wharton, an American female writer, was the daughter of the Jones family, a prominent family in New York. Her book The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, won the Pulitzer Prize.
★Henry James is an American novelist, literary critic, playwright and essayist. His representative works include the novel An American, which has a great influence on the modernist and postmodernist literature that emerged in the 20th century.
★Charles Darwin, a British biologist, made a lot of observations and collections of animals, plants, geological structures, etc. in his early years. He wrote "The Origin of Species" and proposed the theory of biological evolution.
★George Eliot, a British female writer, was born into a middle-class merchant family in Warwickshire and had a great influence on 19th century English literature.
★Katherine Mansfield, short story writer, cultural feminist, and founder of New Zealand literature.
★Leonid Andreyev, novelist and playwright, is a great writer of Russia's Silver Age who connects the past and the future.
★ Nietzsche, a famous German philosopher, linguist, cultural critic, poet, composer, and thinker, is considered the founder of modern Western philosophy. His major works include "The Will to Power", "The Birth of Tragedy", "Untimely Investigations", etc.
★Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, writer and poet, best known for his nonsensical poetry, essays and short stories.
