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Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 1, 10 volumes in English and Chinese
Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 1, 10 volumes in English and Chinese
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Penguin Classics: Little Black Book is a series of "literary pamphlets" launched by Penguin Publishing Group on the occasion of 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 30 classic and contemporary works for Chinese readers from the original English version, and is released in three volumes. In addition to highly readable short stories, it also includes some poems and non-fiction works that have never been translated.
The first volume includes seven novels, an essay, and a collection of letters by legendary writers such as Boccaccio, Edgar Allan Poe, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke. In addition to classic translations such as Chekhov by Ru Long, Tolstoy by Cao Ying, and Rilke by Feng Zhi, there are also new translations by famous translators such as Ma Ainong, Wen Jieruo, and Yu Xi. Among them, Tolstoy's "Does a Man Need Much Land?" was once called "the greatest story in the world" by James Joyce, and Flaubert's "A Simple Heart" is also considered one of his most outstanding short stories.
About the Author
★ Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance and an outstanding humanist writer. His masterpiece, The Decameron, is the first great realistic work in the history of European literature, praising people's pursuit of happiness in this world.
★ Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a 19th-century American poet, novelist and literary critic. He was good at using exaggeration, metaphor, symbolism and other techniques and bizarre imagination to construct strange atmospheres and bizarre plots. He was a master of horror novels and a pioneer of mystery novels and science fiction novels.
★ Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short story writer and playwright in the late 19th century. His works are compact in structure and refined in language. He is good at creating small characters, describing daily life, and reflecting the current social situation. His representative works include the novels "The Chameleon" and "The Man in a Shell", and the drama "The Cherry Orchard".
★ Leo Tolstoy (1828~1910) was a Russian critical realist writer and thinker in the mid-19th century. His representative works include "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Resurrection", etc.
★ Flaubert (1821-1880) was a famous French writer in the mid-19th century. His works have both the characteristics of realism and the buds of naturalism and modernism. His representative works include "Madame Bovary" and "Sentimental Education".
★ Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) is a Japanese writer from the Taisho period, who is particularly good at short stories. His writing style is cold, his language is concise and powerful, and he is good at capturing the subtleties of people's hearts. His representative works include "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Grove", "Hell Transformation", etc.
★ Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is a British poet and novelist. His representative novels include the novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, and The Mayor of Casterbridge, as well as short and medium-length novels with the general title of "Wessex Stories".
★ Yoshida Kenkoshi (1283-1350) was a famous poet and prose writer during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in Japan. He was proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism, Laozi and Zhuangzi. His essay collection "Tsuregusa" is a masterpiece of Japanese essay literature.
★ Rilke (1875-1926), an Austrian writer, is the greatest poet in the German-speaking world in the 20th century. His poems touch on topics such as religion and existentialism, and have an important influence on the development of modern poetry. His representative works include "The Prayer Book", "New Poems", "Duinoe", etc.
★ William Blake (1757-1827) was a British romantic poet and printmaker from the 18th to 19th centuries. His early works were concise and lively, while his middle and late works tended to be obscure and profound, full of religion, symbolism and mystery. His representative poems include "Poetic Sketches", "Songs of Innocence and Experience", "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", "Milton", etc.
