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This book is a novel for adults written by the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl. A total of 9 short stories about greed are included. Among them, you will read: the poacher who saved the princess but received a strange reward from the king, the butler who easily defeated his hated employer, the story of two arrogant youths and a boy who was bullied by them, and the man who did not know the value of the tattoo on his back... These stories not only shock the soul, but also use fairy tale-like metaphors to persuade people to do good. Cruel thoughts hide in everyone's heart. Once out of control, they will have ridiculous consequences. One of them, "Skin", brought Roald Dahl his third "Edgar Allan Poe Literary Award" in 1980, and was adapted into a British drama, which gained a large audience.

This book is composed of three short novellas: "The Monument of Longevity", "Boss Fan's Gun" and "The Man Guessed to Death", all of which are new works by the author in recent years. Among them, "The Monument of Longevity" was first published in the third issue of "People's Literature" in 2014 and was reprinted in the fifth issue of "Novel Monthly". It is a very important work. The author's realistic writing skills are solid and his story construction is highly readable. He is currently an outstanding and popular novel writer.

Sophocles' works have rich and colorful characters and perfect forms, which is an important contribution made by the writer to the development of ancient Greek drama. Among his works, "Oedipus the King" is the most famous, which focuses on the conflict between human will and destiny, and also contributed a classic literary image to the world of literature. "Antigone" shows the conflict between religious belief and legal authority.

"The Whistling Engine" is a factory-themed novel composed of five independent but interrelated novellas. The novel describes a young worker's various adventures in the factory and his extraordinary life destiny. The factory in the novel is a slightly absurd and realistic place. The factory is filled with all kinds of strange workers, including thieves, magicians, actors, liars, ventriloquists, a young factory director who dropped out of school and a mute who can talk, a young man who drives a car and a car mechanic who mistakenly enters college, etc. Everyone is struggling in reality, and they use their own tricks to change their embarrassing fate... 18-Year-old X is a car mechanic. At the beginning of the novel, he encountered a faulty engine. He tried various methods but failed to repair it. As a last resort, he asked his magic workers for help and planned to steal the engine and sell it. However, their plan was spotted by the police from the beginning. Just when the deal was about to be completed, strange things happened one after another...

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A new collection of short stories from Kyogoku Natsuhiko's "Hyakki Night Walk" series. Consistent with the content composition of "Hundred Ghosts at Night - Yin", the book contains ten gloomy, depressing and uniquely charming monster stories, including the terrifying "Big Head" and the poignant "Green Heron Fire"; both the evil "Ghost Boy" and the weird "Snake Belt". It tells how the boundaries between illusion and reality are gradually blurred by mortals whose souls are devoured by monsters. The whole book uses a unique narrative rhythm to create an atmosphere of fiction, reality, and reality.

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on long-term research and translation of his works. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories. Maupassant's war novels are limited in number. But it has produced many well-known masterpieces. He only served as a logistics soldier for a short period of time and never actually participated in a war. Perhaps because of this, his war novels lacked the smoke of the battlefield; but he was good at writing about the mentality and dynamics of people from all walks of life during the war, profoundly revealing the human nature facing war. There are many great literary works reflecting the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, but Maupassant's powerful war stories are deeply rooted in people's hearts and remembered. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

"In Search of Lost Time" is an epoch-making masterpiece and one of the most important novels in the world literary world in the 20th century. Together with "Ulysses", it is called the pinnacle of stream-of-consciousness novels. This novel uses a fresh and lively unique artistic style, and with the help of a subconscious mind that transcends time and space, the lost time is reappeared in his writing, and he expresses his endless nostalgia for his old friends and past events, as well as his irresistible melancholy. André Mauroa once said: "Proust's simple, individual and regional narratives arouse enthusiasm all over the world, which is both the most beautiful thing and the fairest phenomenon in the world. Just like a great philosopher summarizes all thoughts with one thought, a great novelist uses one person's life and some of the most ordinary things to make everyone's life emerge in his writing."

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Proust is one of the greatest literary masters of the twentieth century. "In Search of Lost Time" is a voluminous volume and is one of the most famous and difficult works in the entire history of literature. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. It can be said to be a novel tree with many branches derived from the trunk of a novel, or it can be said to be a giant symphony intertwined with several themes. This book basically retains the essence of the seven-volume book. The selected chapters or paragraphs are all complete without any deletions. You can appreciate the elegance of this masterpiece in one volume. It can be called a true "essence".

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"In Search of Lost Time" is too long, you can start with "Refutation of Sainte-Beuve" - ​​the first book to understand Proust. Wang Daoqian's translation was published again after being out of print for many years. This book is neither an essay nor a novel, but a work of art. A piece of small madeleine cake brought out endless unconscious memories, and then the pen turned sharply. The author strongly criticizes the mechanical and erroneous criticism methods of the authoritative critic Saint-Beuve, and the resulting contempt and misunderstanding of all the literary geniuses in the French literary world at that time. The whole book contains both lyrical narrative and rational speculation. The two complement each other and reflect each other. The style of nearly half of the book is similar to or echoes that of "Reminiscence of Lost Time". It is a condensation of the essence of the author's thoughts and laid the first cornerstone for later textualist and structuralist criticism.

Aeschylus, one of the three great tragic poets in ancient Greece, is said to have created more than 70 tragedies and some "comedies". Among them, "Prometheus Bound" and "Agamemnon" are his most famous tragic masterpieces. "Prometheus Bound" is the first part of the trilogy about Prometheus and the only one handed down. It records the scene of the human hero suffering pain on the rocks of the Caucasus. "Agamemnon" and the Oresteia trilogy mainly focus on opposing unjust wars.

This book includes the author's two works, "The Descendants of Cain" and "Clara's Monkhood", which are the author's masterpieces with religious overtones. In this book, the author sets the time in the Meiji period, which was already full of crises, and moved the stage to the relatively barbaric Hokkaido, Japan. The protagonist Niemon and his wife drifted here, and their struggle for survival produced a series of conflicts. Through the creation of this "original king's dictatorial self without whitewashing", the author vividly expresses this violent and fierce power, and at the same time, reveals the despair and loss after being abandoned. "Clara's Monasticism" tells the story of Clara, an aristocratic socialite from Assisi, Italy, who converted to Christianity and became the first nun of the Francisco Monastery, and eventually became the abbot of a monastery herself. The entire work meticulously describes the scenes and religious views of the Christian city in the 13th century. It is rich in history and culture and is a great work worth chewing and savoring.

Chekhov's distinctive feature is his ability to reveal the essence of life from the most ordinary phenomena. He highly downplays the plot and only intercepts ordinary daily life fragments. He uses exquisite artistic details to truly depict and portray life and characters, and to reveal important social phenomena. But he does not fall into the "quagmire" of daily life. On the contrary, his profound realist images are often sublimated into philosophical symbols. In terms of showing the characters' inner world, Chekhov did not focus on explaining the characters' psychological activities in detail, but only tried to see the characters' inner activities and changes from their behaviors.

"Blind Story" is a classic collection of novels by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. This book includes the novels "Blind Story" and "Yoshino Kudzu" and the short story "Tattoo". "Tattoo" is an early work by Junichiro Tanizaki. It tells the story of Seiyoshi, a well-known tattoo artist who searched for a woman with supreme grace to create the pinnacle work of his life, and finally got what he wanted. The work was favored by Kafeng Nagai, the originator of Japanese aestheticism, for its novel conception and smooth writing. Since then, Junichiro Tanizaki has appeared on the stage of Japanese literature and began to be recognized by the literary circles at that time. "Yoshino Kudzu" tells the story of a protagonist, Tsumura, who came to his hometown of Yoshino in memory of his late mother, and what he and his companion "I" saw and heard in Yoshino. While telling various historical legends, the author expresses the euphemistic heart of the protagonist who turns from missing his mother who died young to pursuing a girl from a mountain village.

This book collects all thirty-one of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, including those previously compiled into two short story collections, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, as well as some short stories that were adapted into the novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. The book won the U. S. National Book Award posthumously in 1972. This volume is the first part, including 18 articles including "A Good Man Is Hard to Find".

"Paper Tent" contains 35 clever female expressions, including thought fragments, poems, fairy tales, micro-novels, etc. Even if she is misunderstood and attacked, Atwood will never stop speaking out about the fate of women and the truth about the world: I cultivated my good voice, made it a cash cow, and made it a bat that sucks my life; when we called my mother home, she became a screaming madwoman, whose life was ruined by accidents in the family; in the wilderness where there was wailing, the female night watchman wrote crazily on paper tents to resist the invasion of monsters. ...

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If there must be death in mystery novels, this book touches on perhaps the most cruel and desperate situation. One incident changes a person's life. A desperate struggle like falling into a spider web, but where is the end of this darkness? Will there still be light in the world? Is Kaoruko giving up everything and insisting on protecting everything really as imagined? The cute baby in my heart has become a terrifying monster in the eyes of others. They said I treated Mizuho like a toy and that I was playing with a dead person. I don't understand, Mizuho is obviously still alive, why do they say she is dead? Many times, we think death is a moment, but actually death is a process. Desperate protection, distant thoughts, endless struggle. When hope turns into despair, pain is like endless darkness swallowing up life. Challenging the boundaries of human nature and morality, it is the ultimate test of love in the human heart.

If there must be death in mystery novels, what is touched upon here may be a cruel and desperate situation! The novel "Laplace's Witch" transcends crime and sociality and focuses on a more core social issue: ethics. "I wanted to destroy the novel I wrote before, so this work was born" - Keigo Higashino. "Dangerous Venus" is a work that even Keigo Higashino himself cannot easily evaluate. After reading "Dangerous Venus", you will find that you have never understood Keigo Higashino before. Different from works such as "Malevolence", "Dangerous Venus" exhausts the complex side of human nature: everyone has the instinct to do good and the motivation to do evil; there is rationality and there are also irrepressible and crazy desires. "Platinum Data" has a depth worthy of repeated reflection, far beyond the scope of "mysterious novels". From one soul to another, it is self-salvation and a deep understanding of human nature. "Japanese Oscar" actor Ninomiya Kazuya starred in the original novel of the movie of the same name, and the Japanese version sold 1.7 Million copies. In the end, this book is still human after all. The question of sex. "The House of Sleeping Mermaid" - another comforting work by Keigo Higashino after "The Sorrow Store". It is both sad and warm. This is a story that makes us face life again. No mystery novel is as heartbreaking as this book, and there is no book that gives us the belief in "life".

In the future world, any criminal will be unable to escape under the calculations of the "DNA Investigation System". However, some people circumvented the system's monitoring and committed multiple rape and murder cases one after another. Panic spread, and the police began to question whether there were flaws in the system. Unexpectedly, at this time, the "DNA Investigation System" actually transmitted the result data of criminal profiling, and the identity of the real murderer pointed to the developer of the system - Kagura! Kagura once believed that the "DNA detection system" would never go wrong. However, his memory of the time of the crime was blank and he was unable to make a statement of innocence because his second clone had appeared at the scene of the crime. In order to clear the suspicion, Kagura embarked on the road to escape. While investigating the truth, the true intention of the second personality also surfaced...

Keigo Higashino's almost perfect classical style! The prototype of the "Witch" series, the "Super Secret Room" with two female protagonists as detectives VS all the suspects! Keigo Higashino challenged the limits of his own reasoning and called it a golden masterpiece that he could never write again! Keigo Higashino's "No Survivors"! It is a multiple-conspiracy work that combines nursery rhyme murder\u002Fsecret room murder\u002Fspell code\u002Fcode deciphering! In order to find out the truth behind her brother's suicide, Naoko and her friend Makoto went to Mother Goose Resort in Hakuba, hoping to find clues at the scene and solve the mystery of the note her brother left for her. Each room in this villa is named after the "Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme", and the corresponding nursery rhyme lyrics are hung in the rooms, and the guests staying now are almost the same as a year ago. While the two were studying nursery rhymes and this English-style villa, a strange murder case occurred... Multiple high-energy reversals, seven murderous nursery rhyme houses, the collision of conspiracy and logic, the game of wealth and human nature, the fusion of nursery rhyme curses and codes!

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Eri Makimura, who worked at Bambi Nightclub, was found dead in Room 203 of the Ginza Queen Hotel. It was Hisao Marumoto, the president of Bambi Nightclub, who found Eri's body. After investigation, the police found that Eri and Hisao were lovers, and the crime scene was in a secret room, so they concluded that Eri committed suicide because of love. However, Eri's friend Xiangzi had doubts about the cause of his death, and Shibata, the police officer in charge of the case, also believed that the matter was not that simple, so the two decided to continue investigating the case. Soon, Eri's friend Kayuri secretly sneaked into Bambi Nightclub in order to find out the truth about Eri's death. Unexpectedly, when things finally came to light, Yukari was strangled to death, and Xiangzi's home also showed signs of being invaded...

The young couple's bodies were pierced by samurai swords. The girl they fell in love with at first sight disappeared from the world. A college student jumped to his death after drinking Coke. Robbers broke into the house and killed people, but only took away a pot of flowers... The yellow morning glory that once existed in modern times suddenly disappeared, leaving only the legend of the "dream flower" that "it will destroy itself once it is pursued". And as the yellow morning glory reappears in the world, the fate of four strange families is closely linked...

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the translator's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on years of research and translation. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories. French literature and art have distinctive comedic features. From the medieval comedies of Patran, through Rabelais's "Giant" and Beaumarchais' comedies, to today's stand-up comedy, the comedic tradition continues to flourish. In the creation of novels, the translator believes that Maupassant's humorous novels should be recommended, which fully display this tradition. This book is equipped with original illustrations, and the text and pictures complement each other.

This book contains a number of Chekhov's representative novels, which highly embodies the artistic characteristics of authenticity, simplicity and humor in Chekhov's works and the creative standards of concise words. Among them, some reflect the social reality of Russia at the end of the 19th century, such as "Gooseberry"; some expose the ugly face of Tsarist Russian hawks, such as "Death of a Clerk" and "Chameleon"; some criticize vulgarity, emptiness, inaction, and rigid life attitudes, such as "The Trapped Man"; some are full of sympathy for the working people, such as "Affliction" and "Longing for Sleep", in order to send out a cry to the general public that "we can no longer live like this".

The author uses cruel and heavy writing to connect the long and sad life of the protagonist Oba Yezo from his childhood scenery, sufferings to the women and "friends" he has interacted with. The author's spirit invested in this work aims to use the cruel fate of the weak to resist meaninglessness, to inspire people to a certain extent on how to keep their souls in the harsh life, and to reach the other side of their destiny together with people who are suffering.

Ancient Greek and Roman mythology is a collection of stories about gods and heroic legends. It is scattered in Homer's Epic, Hesiod's Theogony, and literature, history, philosophy and other works of the classical period. It is an introductory and compulsory course for truly understanding the West; human beings' expectations for the most perfect self; recommended by Wang Meng: Recommended readings by the Ministry of Education; a must-read series for the new Chinese curriculum standard.

"The Book of Dragons" is a collection of fantasy short stories by famous writers with various dragon themes. The book brings together a large number of fantasy writers who are active in today's literary world, such as "American Hans Christian Andersen" Jane Yolen, author of "The Girl Who Drinks the Moon" Kelly Barnhill, author of "The Last Unicorn" Peter Bigger, Australian national treasure fantasy writer Garth Nix, author of "The Gentleman Thief" Scott Lynch, as well as Chinese writers Liu Yukun and Kuang Lingxiu, etc. The book contains a total of nearly thirty interesting short stories closely related to dragons, including familiar evil dragons in the Western fantasy worldview, unexpected and emotional cute dragons, as well as dragon trainers and dragon slayers who have a close relationship with dragons.

He came from the north on horseback, with white hair and a weathered face; he is a stranger and a demon hunter who takes slaying demons as his own duty and walks between the fog of reality and legend. In the third year after humans and non-humans crossed the river to rule, the northern kings formed a secret alliance and used their swords to guide the shore. The fragile peace between the empire and the kings is in jeopardy, and Ciri, a girl who is training in the Witcher Fortress, has no idea that she has become the focus of competition... Suddenly, the torrent of history begins, and the grandest adventure begins! Now, do you hear the sound of horse hooves in the distance?

This book describes the story of two immortals, Han Xiangzi and Lu Dongbin, among the "Eight Immortals". It is also known as "The Complete Biography of Han Changli in Twelve Degrees of Han Xiangzi", "The Complete Biography of Han Changli", "Han Xiangzi Achieved Taoism" and "Han Xiangzi"). It mainly tells the story of Han Xiangzi becoming an immortal and transforming Han Yu into ascension. The plot of the book is ups and downs, the imagination is strange, and it is full of bizarre colors. Many of the stories were loved by the public at that time, had a certain influence among the people, and were products of a certain society. Therefore, they have irreplaceable cognitive value and will forever remain in the annals of literary history.

Published in a collection with reference to the title and contents of the Japanese first edition! A classic work by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the literary genius and king of short stories! A sharp analysis of the good and evil of human nature, a new interpretation of historical allusions, the struggle of emotional desires, and a detached philosophy of life... This book contains 12 short and medium-sized novels, including "The Maori Teacher", "The Magic Flute and the Divine Dog", "Orange", "Dragon", "Doubt" and other excellent works. Whether it is to kill time or to make a living, Teacher Maori is so tormented and distressed because of these vulgar misunderstandings of the world. --"Maori Teacher"; this is the only reward that the unknown artist, one of us, sacrificed his life to get from this world. --"Swampland"; Even if I am a madman, isn't what makes me crazy the monster hidden deep in our human hearts? As long as that monster exists, the people who laugh at me as crazy today may become crazy like me tomorrow. --"Confuse".

This volume includes the author's TV literary script "The Desolate Houtu" and 17 novels and short stories. The TV literary script was filmed and broadcast as a TV series of the same name by Changchun Film Studio in 1996.

"A Collection of Short Stories and Novels by Maupassant" is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous French writer Maupassant, the "king of short stories in the world". It presents readers with a picture of French social life at that time and has profound ideological connotation and social value. By reading the novel, readers can feel its unique charm. Maupassant's short stories depict a wide range of aspects of life, and together they constitute a comprehensive secular picture of French society in the second half of the 19th century. In Maupassant's novels, all kinds of phenomena in the social reality at that time are vividly described; characters from all walks of life are vividly outlined; the scenery and people of France's urban and rural areas are also vividly portrayed. Among his wide range of materials, there are three outstanding focuses, namely, the Franco-Prussian War, the life of clerks in Paris, and the urban and rural scenery and anecdotes of the Normandy region of France.

It includes many new and unpublished novels, as well as classic love short stories published in best-selling magazines such as "Women's Newspaper", "Girlfriend", "Youth Digest", "Huahuo", "South Wind" and "Huaxi". 25 Cities, 25 encounters, 25 kinds of love in Paris, Iceland, Hong Kong, Tokyo, California... There is always someone waiting in a certain city to have an immortal love with you.

Anthony Burgess once said, "Maugham's real talents are all in the short stories he wrote. They are the best language I have ever read." Compared with longer stories, short stories may be what Maugham really loves to write, and they are also what he is most comfortable in writing, so people call him "the British Maupassant". In 1951, Maugham compiled 91 of his own short stories into the three-volume "Collected Short Stories" and personally wrote the preface for each volume. In 1963, the British Penguin Publishing Company republished it in four volumes. Since then, this version has been reprinted many times, translated into various languages, and circulated around the world. This set of "The Complete Collection of Somerset Maugham's Short Stories" (7 volumes) has been translated based on this. It is the first time in China that all the short stories of this great writer have been completely released, including "Rain", "The Lion's Coat", "The Man with the Scar", "Footprints in the Jungle", "The British Agent", "The Gluttonous Man" and "Portrait of a Gentleman".

"Akin" is a collection of short stories that Maugham personally edited and selected during his lifetime. It includes six short stories based on his experiences during his two trips to the Malay Peninsula and surrounding areas in the early 1920s. The title is the name of a Chinese servant the author hired during his travels. The six novels have different themes, ranging from bizarre murders to passionate love and hopeless marriages. Maugham uses his clear and smooth language to tell these twists and turns of the story without any obscurity, but with foreshadowing everywhere. In Somerset Maugham's works, those Westerners who have escaped from the Western civilized world and come to remote and unfamiliar environments are often swayed by their own desires, become erratic, unpredictable, and do unusual things. The ending of the story often presents a surprising and thought-provoking turning point.

In the literary history of France and the world, Maupassant, a 19th-century French writer, is not only famous for his novels, but also for his short and medium-sized novels, with more than 300 pieces in total, and is known as the "King of Short Stories". "The Complete Collection of Maupassant's Novellas and Short Stories" consists of five volumes. These short and medium-sized novels reflect the breadth of materials, covering all aspects of French social life at that time, allowing readers to have a glimpse of the master's superb artistic skills. The fifth volume includes "Papa Milon", "Ball de Suif", "A Parisian's Sunday" and several unpublished short stories by Maupassant. The last volume contains Maupassant's most famous novella "Ball de Suif". This story affirms Ball-of-Fat's patriotism and self-sacrifice, and satirizes the fact that the upper-class characters appear to be noble and dignified, but their inner qualities are very selfish and shameless, and their moral standards are actually far inferior to those of the poor at the bottom. Flaubert called it "a masterpiece that can be passed down to the world."

Mishima Yukio's self-explanation of his literary career, the essence of Mishima's mysticism in his confrontation with death. Mishima Yukio's masterpiece of prose. Including "The Sun and Iron" and "The Era I Experienced", the author summarizes and reviews his writing career, and creates a prose world that is compatible with emotion and reason based on the literary mechanism of lyric prose.

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Chekhov was the last master of critical realism in Russia in the late 19th century and a master of short stories. He is known as the "King of Short Stories in the World". He was good at digging out people and events of typical significance from daily life, making high-level artistic summaries through humorous and ridiculous plots, and shaping small characters with typical personalities. He used this to reflect the Russian society at that time, laugh at ugly social phenomena, and express his deep sympathy for the hardworking people. His novels are compact and concise, concise and concise, full of humor, and allow readers to figure out the meaning of the work from the image system. Every plant and tree in his writing is lifelike, and his depictions of psychology are often penetrating, and he has become synonymous with short stories. This book is a collection of Chekhov's classic short stories, which selects dozens of works that are considered classics and widely circulated.

At dusk, under the decadent Rashomon clan, a fired servant was waiting for the rain to stop. Just when he was confused about his future and struggling between surviving by stealing and starving to death morally, he saw an old woman on the tower pulling out the long hair of an unknown corpse, preparing to braid it into a wig and sell it for money. The horrifying scene before him prompted him to make a decision... When pushed to the edge of life and death, is the choice of the domestic servant a matter of course? Are the good parts of human nature always vulnerable? Is the end of the choice between good and evil only despair with no way out? A selection of 11 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, including masterpieces such as "Rashomon", "The Nose" and "Yam Porridge".

A collection of novels, published in 1949, containing seventeen short stories. Aleph is the first letter of Hebrew. In mathematics, it represents infinite numbers and infinite sets. Mysticism understands it as the potential energy that transcends the limits of time and space. Borges uses the form of novels to expand his thoughts on time, space, the universe, macro and micro. After the death of the woman I admired, "I" still visited her home every year on her birthday. Her cousin Daneri had been writing a long poem entitled "The World" for many years. He confided a secret to "me", that there was an "Aleph" in the corner of the basement, which was the source of his poetry writing talent. "I" lay quietly on the brick floor in the dark basement, staring at the nineteenth step of the staircase. Finally, I saw a small flashing ball. The scene in the ball was dazzling. "The universe is included in it." That was Aleph.

"Selected Short Stories of Chekhov" includes 20 famous works of Chekhov's novels, such as "The Chameleon", "The Man in the Trap" and "Death of a Civilian". They are not only Chekhov's masterpieces, but also famous works of Russian literature at the end of the 19th century. The period when Chekhov lived and created was an era of great changes in Russian history. On the one hand, the dark forces of feudalism were rampant and the social atmosphere was suffocating. On the other hand, the Russian workers' revolutionary movement was rising and people's minds were changing. Chekhov's works are the portrayal of this drastic change in social life, and extremely profoundly and truly reflect the life reality of the great changes in Russian society at the end of the 19th century.