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This book is a collection of Su Tong's novellas, including "Spring in the Meat Factory", "Osmanthus Chain Group", "Taming a Child" and "Letter from the Masses". The narration of Su Tong's novels is elegant and calm, pure as water, written plainly but full of meaning; the writing is elegant and full of Jiangnan sentiment; the narrative and lyricism are perfectly combined, and the writing style is unique.

This book is a collection of Su Tong's short stories, including "Butterfly and Chess", "The Thief", "The Queen of Hearts", "The New Fairy Match", "Running Wild", "Scarecrow", "Boxcar", "Kitten", "Corn Explosion", "Eighteen Farewell", "Sound Research". "Research", "Cousin Comes to Maqiao Town", "Tell Them I went on a White Crane", "The Most Desolate Zoo in the World", "Two Cooks", "Burn", "A Friend on the Road", "About Pickled Fish", "Sunflower" and other works. The unquestionable king. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. The film adapted from "Tell Them I Ride on the White Crane" is directed by Li Ruijun and stars Ma Xingchun, Zhang Min and others. It was shortlisted for the "Horizon Unit" of the 69th Venice International Film Festival and the "Window of Asian Film" unit of the 17th Busan International Film Festival.

The novel collection includes short and medium-sized novels written by the author in the five years from 2016 to 2020, mainly campus romance and historical romance.

"The Lighthouse" is Siegfried Lenz's most popular novella. It tells the story of the heroic struggle between the crew of a lighthouse and a group of fugitives who robbed the ship. The plot of the novel is full of twists and turns, and at the same time it is profound in meaning and rich in philosophy. Although it looks like a thriller on the surface, it is actually a realistic work that reflects the social status of Germany and even Europe in the 1950s. The author uses this story to express his point of view: Europe after the war is not peaceful, and kind people must remain highly vigilant against those who disrupt social order. This book also contains three short stories: "Lehman's Narration", "Serbian Girl" and "An Emergency Method of Self-Defense".

"Dawn" is a short story collection by Taiwanese writer Mr. Zhu Xining. It includes 13 classic short stories and is published in mainland China for the first time. The characters have expanded from the bloody heroes in "Plasma" to ordinary citizens. The rural legends of the Northland and the urban customs of Taiwan reflect each other. The ancient Greek tragedy has evolved into the trivial daily life and inner battlefield of ordinary people, presenting a more modern and profound scenery. "Spring Is Gone" describes the lingering emotions of a silk-cutting master in spring, "White Grave" commemorates the fall of a hero, "The Grain Thief" mourns the decline of integrity, and "It's a Taste" depicts the stream of consciousness reverie of a married man. "Fucheng Baitiehao" tells the story of the cage-like and boring urban daily life and the fatigue of life from the perspective of a family of four. The short story "Break of Dawn" of the same name is adapted from the Song Dynasty story-telling novel "The Wrong Killing of Cui Ning". It points directly to the entanglement between people and absurd fate. It is a shocking tragedy and asks "How does the process of degeneration begin in each of us?"

"Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" is a short story in Chinese classical Chinese that was written in the form of notes by Ji Yun, who was a scholar in the Hanlin Academy between the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789) and the third year of Jiaqing (1798) in the Qing Dynasty. In terms of time, it mainly collects and compiles the folk tales of various foxes, ghosts and gods, karma, admonishing good and punishing evil, etc. Before and after that era, or strange anecdotes heard personally; in terms of space and geography, the scope covers the whole of China as far away as Urumqi, Yining, and south to Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Rong Zhai Essays" is an ancient Chinese classical Chinese notebook novel. A total of "Wubi", 74 volumes, 1220 articles. Among them, "Rong Zhai's Essays" has 16 volumes and 329 items; "Rong Zhai's Continuing Writings" has 16 volumes and 249 items; "Rong Zhai's Three Strokes" has 16 volumes and 248 items; "Rong Zhai's Four Strokes" has 16 volumes and 259 items; "Rong Zhai's Five Strokes" has 10 volumes and 135 items. According to the autobiography of the author Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty, "Rong Zhai Essays" was written over nearly 40 years. It is the culmination of his many years of extensive reading and practical wisdom and sweat.

"Jingshi Tongyan Quanjian" interpreted by "Jingshi Tongyan Quanjian" is the second of the "Three Words" by Feng Menglong, a popular writer in the Ming Dynasty. There are many story-telling novels with the theme of marriage and love, such as "The White Snake Will Stay at Leifeng Pagoda" and "Wang Jiaoluan's Hundred Years' Hate". Some show the passionate pursuit of free love by young men and women, and some show the unfortunate life experiences and pain of lower-class women; some comedies and some tragedies. The profound ideological connotations and superb artistic skills displayed in these works are refreshing and beautiful. What is particularly valuable is that in these works, Feng Menglong has created a number of images of women with distinctive personalities, which are surprising, gratifying, sad and lamentable, and have strong artistic appeal.

"Yao Shui Nong Past" tells the story of Song Wuyong, a girl from northern Jiangsu who first came to Shanghai with her parents to live in Yao Shui Nong. Song Wuyong was born in the 1920s. Because she was the youngest daughter, she was disliked by her mother and was named "Wuyong". But it was such a "useless" woman who ended up taking care of her parents... The story finally ends with Song Wuyong walking out of the Potion Lane and starting a new life. The "Floating Life" series is a selection of short stories serialized by Ren Xiaowen in "Southern Weekend". It is derived from the writer's interviews with all living beings in Shanghai. It focuses on the fate of small people. The story is sad and tragic, and the ending is unexpected. The "Floating Life" series has won the "Open Narrative Award" of the 17th Baihua Literary Award and the 2016 "Southern Weekend" Foreign Draft Award. The six articles selected for this book were selected by Ren Xiaowen.

Chen Cun's novel collection "The First Apple" includes eight short stories including "When I Was Twenty-Two", "Old House", "Joke", "Family of Three", "Bear", "Dad", "Sunrise·Impression" and "The First Apple". It is one of the pocket book series of the Shanghai Writers Association. Chen Cun's novels are mainly descriptions of ordinary life events, showing people's complex psychology of self-esteem and inferiority, and revealing his deep concerns about life. The work uses a seemingly plain, ironic, and abstract style, but it faithfully depicts the helpless and helpless phenomenon in real society, and there are deep thoughts on life between the lines. Recent novels have a strong sense of experimentation, but still maintain personal concern for real living conditions.

What I write about is not losers or people struggling in adversity, but people walking towards me in the streets and alleys, people who are calm on the surface but turbulent on the inside. --Lin Donglin. This is the first collection of short stories by young writer Lin Donglin. It contains 10 short stories carefully written in recent years, covering all aspects of contemporary daily life such as unemployment, poverty, marriage, family, infidelity, urban and rural areas, college entrance examinations, etc. Among countless people, crisis is like a fish swimming in the lower parts of a typical Chinese city, forming a small vortex of dilemma around every ordinary person. It swam to Hua'anli - an urban village composed of low shantytowns and hundreds of handshake buildings - "Hua'anli". It swam to the Alley of the Martyrs - a group of alleys about to be demolished that harbored smoke shops, prostitutes and gangsters - "Alley of the Martyrs". It meets Mr. Ivory Clam - a middle-aged man who has sunk to the bottom of his life and chews crystal clear clam meat with Saigon beer - "Mr. Ivory Clam". It stares down indifferently - a woman trapped in a cellar by a rapist who loses contact with the outside world - "Someone Is Coming". As the New Year approaches, it targets a derailed and disqualified father - he crashes into the guardrail on the right side of the highway while listening to John Cage's Bacchanale, and the snow falls silently - "New Year". And at a certain moment, its eyes also tend to be gentle - a father and son sit in a field on the top floor of the city and watch the sunset - "Return to No Plan"... Crisis always comes cunningly and frankly, but there is no shortage of strategies to mediate and fight against it in daily life. In these stories, you and the characters in the novels mirror each other, and then shatter each other, leaving behind a shimmering spectacle.

This book collects four representative short stories written by the author in recent years, namely "A Hundred Years of Love", "Gourd Meat", "Nanny" and "Leave a Voice in the Past". The first article, "Hundred Years of Love" (published in "Chinese Writers" in October 2010), tells the story of an ordinary urban couple gradually getting along; the second article, "Gourd Meat" (published in "Youth Literature" in June 2007), is about The story is full of bizarreness, but it also pays close attention to the lives of ordinary people. The most ordinary airport shuttle bus driver turned out to be a terrorist; the third "Nanny" (published in "Western" in November 2013) created a The image of a first-time mother who accidentally lost her child and caused her own mental disorder. This mother made up for her guilt for the child by being a wet nurse for other children, but gradually lost control as she could not find the child day by day; the fourth part of the novel "Leave a Voice in the Past" (published in "October" in July 2013) is humorous and full of wonderful life details. It tells the youthful echo left to intellectuals in turbulent times, and how this echo affects the next generation of Shanghai.

This book consists of three short novellas by Yao Emei. Whether it is the unthinking, unexplained, and natural devotion of the whole family to their younger brother in "The Secret of the Gene"; the terminally ill single mother who has little time to live but tries her best to plan the future for her underage daughter in "The Old Girl"; or the widowed old man who is good at fighting wits with his sons in "The Cunning Father", the ordinary details of life are touching.

The so-called strange people in the world are still alive in their stories - "Showdown" tells the story of the revenge of a bridge master, "The Immortal Hand" laments the master hermit in the Go world, "The Drunken Master" reproduces the drunken hero Drunken Master after a thousand cups of wine; "Ants and Men" ranges from the microscopic world to the large scale of all living beings, with a broad artistic conception and a self-contained pattern.

"Good Luck": the magical encounter of a stranger in a casino; "Who's in Who's Room": the unexpected accident behind a high-end wine game; "Ignition": the delicate emotions of white-collar men and women; "Settle Down": a short story in the furniture city, reflecting the joys and sorrows of life; "The Elephant's One-Way Line": the perspective of childlike innocence and the farewell of life and death in a fantasy style.

The nine novellas compiled in this book vividly reflect the evolution of human nature in contemporary society from nine different aspects, and profoundly reveal the relationship between people and the times. The unique situations and characters are surprising, resonant and thought-provoking. They have all been published in magazines, scattered in "Contemporary", "Jiangnan", "October", "Chinese Writers", "Youth Literature", "Mountain Flower", "Furong", and "Hunan Literature".

"Moth Erosion" contains a total of 9 novels, namely "Useless Man", "Old Man", "Humanities Reading and Collection·Liangyou Literary Series: Moth Erosion", "Wandering Catkins", "Fall", "In Paradise", "Ember", "End" and "Outlier". Among them, "Humanities Reading and Collection·Liangyou Literature Series: Moth Erosion", "Youxu" and "Fall" can be called the trilogy of "Humanities Reading and Collection·Liangyou Literature Series: Moth Erosion". It tells the story of a woman who is betrayed step by step under the corrosion of society and money. It is full of sentimentality and sadness. For example, the author said in the "Preface", "Now I have entered the circle of society. Here, boys and girls are no longer the core of the incident." This is a collection of works that marked Jin Yi's creative transition in the 1930s, from which readers can see the trajectory of the author's creative transformation.

The contents of this book include men as entertainment, lotus falls, black peonies, the emotions of saint virgins, camels, Nietzscheans and women, our world, the North and South Poles, the baker who stole bread, etc.

The contents of this complaint include three sisters, the executioner's story, a spring afternoon, V's circle, no one listened to her complaint, strange eyes in the night, the mother of a slave, and boring conversations.

The contents of this book include Young Wanderers, Wild Festival, One Night in Xuzhou Hotel, Looking for Love, etc.

The content of this book includes watching kites, night wind, leaves, leaving, getting married, Xiaoliu, summer night, flower dogs, shouts in the wilderness, children's speeches, March in a small town, oxcarts, interviews, etc.

"Calvino's Classic World" includes the following 26 works: "The Baron in the Trees", "The Viscount in Two", "The Non-Existent Knight", "The Invisible City", "Why Read Classics", "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler", "American Lectures", "The Complete Collection of Universe Curiosities", "Italian Fairy Tales (Set of 3 Volumes)", "The Hermit in Paris", "Short Story Collection", "Crazy Orlando", "Destiny" "The Crossing Castle", "Palomar", "The Path to the Spider's Nest", "Smoke of Argentine Ants", "Before You Say Hello", "Under the Jaguar Sun", "The Way of Saint John", "The Traveler Who Collected Sand", "Words and Non-Words", "The Literary Machine", "On Fairy Tales", "Marco Valdo", "Difficult Love", "An Optimist in America: 1959-1960".

Fujisawa Shuhei's collection of works includes five representative works: "Cicada Shigure", "Dusk Seibei", "Hidden Sword Autumn Wind", "Hidden Sword Solitary Shadow" and "Bridge Story". Fujisawa Shuhei writes about the real Japan, and even sings about the "arrogance of ordinary people" - performing stunts without intending to make waves, just to retain the power to resist the trend. After reading Fujisawa, you will understand better what character is and what makes a person love and lovable. "Ippei Ertaro" is the first to be praised in the Japanese era novel world, but Fujisawa Shuhei is completely opposite to the heroic society of Shiba Ryotaro and Ikeha Shotaro. He is far away from fanaticism and popularity. His writing is concise and concise, and he can hear thunder in silence. In the world of Fujisawa's works, it is still that old and beautiful era, where the earth is fragrant and the human heart is constant; women are calm and strong, and men have deep feelings. The sky is bright and cloudy, miscanthus smoke, green mountains and green shirts, tired urbanites, see "nostalgia" and the "native scenery" of the soul from Fujisawa Shuhei's books, and are comforted and released.

How many chance encounters will there be in a cat's life? They are full of curiosity about the world and actively participate in every exciting event, large or small. They can go to heaven and earth, and escape cleverly. They are also smart and wise. This book contains twenty-five short stories, each story is a wonderful encounter between a cat and all living things, and each encounter is a wonderful and interesting encounter.

In this book, three different types of stories are detailed, one is a romance and the other two are fairy tales or fables.

This book is a collection of famous micro-novel representative works from home and abroad. Many of them are masterpieces by famous writers. They have experienced long-term test and are of great literary value. It is a good version for readers and friends to read and collect.

More than ten years ago, Gen had a grudge against Ye Hua's father, so he wanted to take revenge on the Ye family. When Ye Hua was 7 years old, Gen began to constantly intimidate and threaten him, causing him to suffer from severe anorexia and severe physical and mental pain. Later, a special chef sacrificed himself in the battle with Gen in order to protect Ye Hua. After this incident, Ye Hua finally untied his knot, understood the meaning of food, and determined to be a chef. When he grew up, Ye Hua opened a canteen that catered to special diners. In the cafeteria, strange things happen every day. All kinds of strange diners have their own secrets. Do these secrets have something in common? Can Ye Hua solve their knots through his own efforts?

The works created by Yu Dafu include "Blood and Tears", "Collection of Taro", "On Novel", "Collection on Literature and Art", "On Drama", "Collection of Cold Ashes", "Introduction to Literature", "Nine Types of Diaries", "Collection of Chicken Ribs", "Collection of the Past", "Sorrow of the Lonely", "Lost Sheep", "Odd Ling Collection", "Dafu's Representative Works", "In the Cold Wind", "Wei Fern Collection", "She is a Weak Woman", "Confessions Collection", "Dafu's Selected Collection", "The Broken Collection", etc. Yu Dafu's literary activities ran through several important periods from the "May 4th Movement" to the Anti-Japanese War. They initially expressed the depression of young people and gradually expanded to reflect the misfortunes of the working people. His works truly and profoundly reflected part of the spiritual outlook of his era. His works have high achievements both ideologically and artistically, so they have always been regarded as a strange flower in the field of excellent "May Fourth" short stories.

"Urban Landscape" was published in April 1930. It was the first collection of short stories written in my country that used modern techniques and belonged to the New Sensation School. This collection is the magazine "Trackless Train" founded by Liu Naou in September 1928. It united some young literary people who deliberately pursued innovation in artistic forms, and initially revealed the creative tendency of the New Sensation School.

Works by winners of the Lu Xun Literature Award and the Hundred Flowers Literature Award. The author Ye Mi is a powerful female writer in contemporary China. Ye Mi's novels reveal deep humanistic care and high-spirited spirit of the times.

Chekhov is a world-class Russian short story master and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 14 short stories. "The Bet" depicts the story of a banker's bet with a lawyer. The lawyer read a lot of books during his fifteen years of imprisonment and gained a spiritual rebirth. However, the banker tried to break the contract and murder the lawyer, exposing his ugly soul.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 8 short stories. "About Love" is related to "The Man in the Trap" and "Gooseberry". Through a love tragedy, it reveals the fearful character that harms others and ourselves. "Chameleon" tells the story of a policeman who repeatedly changes his mind about a case, mocking the "snobbery" of the old society. "Old Age" writes about the "strange relationship" between people in the old Russian era.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 7 articles. "The Sixth Ward" describes a hospital in a small city, full of corruption, violence, and crime, and becomes a microcosm of the darkness of society under the reactionary rule of the Russian Empire. In hospitals, the wards for mental patients have become prisons, and healthy people are also locked up in them. This novel criticized the brutality of the Russian autocratic system and effectively proved that the only way for the people to relieve their suffering is to fight.

Chekhov is a world-class Russian short story master and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. He is also known as the "three major short story writers in the world" together with French writer Maupassant and American writer O. Henry. This collection contains 11 short stories. "Song Girl" describes a humble singer who is kind and generous, while those "upper-class people" who insult her are small and despicable. "Sorrow" writes about the endless sorrow of an elderly worker who lost his wife. "In Exile" reflects that exiled prisoners never forget freedom and happiness in their painful lives.

Chekhov is a world-class Russian short story master and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. He is also known as the "three major short story writers in the world" together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry. This collection contains 13 short stories. "Beauty" describes two beautiful girls, one of whom was buried in the wilderness for nothing, and the other seduced a man's heart with her beautiful face and destroyed the peace of another family. "In the Post Office" reveals the ferocious face of the police chief during the Tsarist Russia era and depicts the people's deep hatred of the police.

Chekhov is a world-class Russian short story master and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 15 short stories. "In Hometown" describes a young girl who unconsciously sinks into an empty and idle life, showing the decay of the old Russian system. "Verochicka" describes Verochicka who expressed her feelings to the young man she admired, but was rejected by the other party, and the young man also felt deeply regretful.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 3 articles. "Doctor" tells about a woman who was greedy for money and still had to lie when her own son was dying. "Surgery" is about a doctor who has poor surgical skills and fails to extract a diseased tooth. The novel satirizes those who only eat cows and have no real skills.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with French writer Maupassant and American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 9 short stories, most of which describe villages and farmers, reflecting the face of Russian rural areas in the 19th century. The author depicts the gloomy lives of small people in the countryside on a beautiful pastoral background with sympathetic brushstrokes.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 4 short stories. They all describe farmers. "Peasants" is the author's true description of the poor and difficult life of the oppressed peasants in the Russian Empire. "In the Canyon" writes about the other side of the countryside, the tragedy of a rich farmer-cum-merchant family. "Gusev" vividly describes the tragic misfortune of peasants being dragged to serve as "strong men".

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 3 short stories. They are all masterpieces by Chekhov, among which "The Man in the Trap" is the author's famous short story. The protagonist wears galoshes and carries an umbrella even on sunny days. "Condom" symbolizes all the shackles that bind people. "Sergeant Plishbeev" satirizes the evil forces that oppress the people.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 4 short stories. Three of them are about the lives of teachers in the old Russian era. In "The Uninteresting Story", the author writes about the cynical character formed due to the poverty of spiritual life through an old professor and the people around him. Although "The Principal" criticized the protagonist for being surly, it also expressed sympathy.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 5 short stories. "Gooseberry" tells the story of a man who held the idea of ​​personal happiness and spent a gray life. When his ideal was finally realized, he had turned into a living corpse like a pig. "The Kingdom of Women" uses the depressed life of a capitalist's daughter to depict the emptiness and depravity of the entire bourgeois life.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 9 short stories. The vulgarity and selfishness of intellectuals that the author has always hated have been deeply and meticulously portrayed in "Literature Teacher" and "Wife". The author has several other articles in which he demonstrates his talent for describing children's psychology.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 9 short stories. "Named Day" uses a description of a nameday party to reflect the vanity of an intellectual couple, causing tragedy in poor life. "Bishop" tells the story of a child who was born in poverty and finally became a bishop, but it brought a monotonous and meaningless life.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 12 short stories. Most of them write about the various aspects of intellectuals. The story is comical to read, but it profoundly exposes all kinds of vulgarity. "Father" is about an old man who is obsessed with saving face, which is both ridiculous and sad. The person in "Excerpts from the Notes of a Grumpy Man" has a weak character, and whenever something happens, he shrinks into his empty and boring shell.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 17 short stories. The protagonist of "The Bride" was about to be a bride, but after being pointed out by others, she opened her eyes and saw the unreasonableness and injustice of her life, so she abandoned her comfortable family life and the comfortable life her fiancé had arranged for her, and went to study far away. Putting aside getting something for nothing and emphasizing self-reliance is the main idea that the author wants to express in the work.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects two short stories. It describes how intellectuals floating on the surface of life went from idleness to extreme boredom, and finally fell into depression and decadence, lashing out at their spiritual emptiness and hesitation.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 5 short stories. "The Woman with the Puppy" reveals the depressed mood of women in the old society regarding marriage. "The Black Monk" is a true portrayal of the arrogance of the old intellectuals. "The Jumping Woman" summarizes the characteristics of those vain and frivolous women. "Art" shows the author's sympathy and love for farmers.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 9 short stories. "Light" profoundly rebukes the spiritual depravity of misanthropes. The famous "Death of a Civil Service Official", which is full of laughter but contains tears, describes a poor little man who died in depression because of a sneeze.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 9 short stories. "Horror" uses a love story to tell the chaos of human affairs. "Wanka" describes a child who is burdened by poverty and slavery and longs for a free and happy life.