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Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 4, 10 volumes in English and Chinese
Penguin Classics: Little Black Book Series 4, 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 the occasion of its 80th anniversary. The selection is magnificent and rich, transcending the constraints of time and space to find masterpieces. The bilingual Chinese and English versions published this time have carefully selected 50 classic and contemporary works for Chinese readers from the original English version, and are released in five volumes. In addition to highly readable short stories, some poems and non-fiction works that have never been translated are also included.
The fourth series consists of 5 novels and 5 non-fiction works, covering classic works of 10 literary masters, most of which are out of print or have never been published in Chinese. Among them are Pushkin's famous thriller "The Queen of Spades", the romantic writer ETA Hoffman's terrifying and futuristic novel "The Sand Man", as well as the classic must-read Goethe's aphorisms and Matsuo Basho's haiku, as well as excerpts from Shakespeare's works, Plato's extremely wonderful work "Apology of Socrates", and Mozart's "My Dear Father" is also translated directly from German for the first time... Ten small books with rich themes and diverse genres together constitute this set of "Penguin Classics: Little Black Books Volume 4", accompanying readers to explore the world in literature.
About the Author
★Virginia Woolf, a British female writer, literary critic and literary theorist, is a representative figure of stream-of-consciousness literature and is hailed as a pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th century.
★Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish journalist and columnist, was an outstanding writer of supernatural novels in the 19th century. His major works include "Uncle Silas", "The House by the Cemetery" and "Camilla".
★Washington Irving, a famous American writer in the 19th century, is known as the father of American literature. The publication of his work "The Sketchbook" attracted the attention of the European and American literary circles and established his position in the history of American literature.
★ Pushkin, a Russian romantic writer and the founder of modern Russian literature, is honored as the "Sun of Russian Poetry" and the "Father of Russian Literature".
★ETA Hoffmann, German romantic writer, jurist, composer and music critic.
★Goethe, a German playwright, poet, natural scientist, literary theorist and politician, was a famous representative of Weimar classicism and one of the outstanding figures in the field of world literature.
★Matsuo Basho, a haiku master of the Edo period, is known as the Japanese haiku saint and the first of the three great classical haiku poets. His recognized achievement is that he pushed the haiku form to its peak.
★Mozart, a famous Austrian classical music composer, was born in Salzburg during the Holy Roman Empire and is one of the greatest classical musicians in Europe.
★William Shakespeare, a great playwright in the history of Western literature and a world-renowned writer, left behind 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two-hand long narrative poems and other works. His plays are still performed in their original form or in adapted forms all over the world.
★Plato, a great philosopher and thinker in Western culture, a great educator and mathematician in ancient Greece, is known as one of the Three Sages of Greece along with Socrates and Aristotle.
