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This is the short story volume in "The Collected Works of Jiang Zilong". This volume mainly collects the author's representative works and famous works in different periods. The changes in the author's creation can be seen from the works. These include "The Taking of the Factory Director Qiao", "New Year's Greetings", "Diary of a Factory Director's Secretary", as well as a set of micro-novels that reflect real life, such as "Da Zhou Tian" and "Pure Fire".

"Classic Book Series Selected by Famous Writers" is personally selected by famous contemporary literary figures and is a high-quality selection of masterpieces of contemporary literature. This is a self-selected collection of Jiang Zilong's works, divided into "novel" and "prose" volumes. His novels include "The Taking of Factory Director Qiao" and "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Purple", etc., And his essays include "Softness and Hardness in Life", "Empty, Thinking!" "Waiting for a Car Accident", "Borrowing Scenery from Yangzhou", "Tolstoy's Lamp", "The Number of Lives", etc. These works relatively comprehensively reflect the themes and artistic features of Jiang Zilong's works.

This book is compiled and selected by the famous writer Bi Feiyu himself, and collects his best short stories since his publication, including "That Boy Is Me", "Who's Talking in the Night", "Lactating Woman", "White Night", "What's Left of a Man", "Cricket Cricket", "Missing My Sister Xiaoqing", "Wangjiazhuang on Earth", "Rainbow", "Family Affair", "Days of Love" and other representative works.

This book is divided into two parts, the medium-length and the short. The medium-length works include "Narrative", "Chushui", "Sleeping with Eyes Wide Open", "Qing Yi", "Corn"; the short-length articles include "May 9th and 10th", "Who Talks in the Late Night", "Writing", "Lactating Woman", "Ma's Father and Son", "Remote Control", "What's Left of a Man", "White Night", "Traveling in Style", "Missing My Sister Xiaoqing", "Twenty-two Days with Alai", "Cricket Cricket", "A Flower Singing Xipi's Erhuang".

This book is the work of the famous writer Liu Zhaolin. Liu Zhaolin is currently a member of the Presidium of the Chinese Writers Association and vice president of the Chinese Prose Society. There are more than 4 million words of novels and prose works such as "No Regrets" and "Ah, the Gunshots in the Sauron Valley". He has won the National Award for Outstanding Novels and Short Stories, the Bing Xin Prose Award, the Cao Xueqin Novel Award, and is the winner of the National Special Contribution Expert Award.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by Xu Guixiang, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. It includes seven articles, including "The Decisive Battle", "The World", "The Wrong Color", "Smart March", "Ballistic Traceless", "The Course of Courage" and "The Topic of a Summer Night". It is a collector's edition of Xu Guixiang's early works.

"Carrying Tea to Beijing" is one of the representative works of Liu Xinglong's novellas. It reflects many common characteristics of Liu Xinglong's novellas in terms of subject matter, characters, and artistic style. Liu Xinglong is passionate about local themes. His novellas focus more on people's living conditions after the reform and opening up. They use some small figures at the bottom of society as protagonists, breaking through the black and white character settings. They are full of flesh and blood, full of life, and have an obvious realist style in artistic creation.

This anthology, compiled by the famous contemporary Chinese writer Bi Feiyu and sorted by creation time, has a total of more than one million words and includes all the author's important works including "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai", "Tsing Yi" and "Breastfeeding Woman". This collection includes short and medium-length works, mainly short works. These four volumes of Bi Feiyu's collected works have become, in a sense, a panacea for him to "get to the bottom of things".

Opportunity is the laughter of fate. This emotion arises spontaneously when I look back at the journey of life. In my debut novel, I wrote about opportunity as a luxury that only a few can enjoy. Ten years later, I would like to make a small revision to this sentence. The previous statement was obviously from the mouth of a wanderer who had great ambitions but never met him. It ignored many ordinary people who worked hard day and night. In fact, opportunities exist for everyone. The key is how big your expectations are. If they are too big, you will usurp the host and become the slave, making what originally existed become non-existent. Then this sentence should be said: Opportunity is a luxury that everyone can enjoy occasionally in his life.

The Lu Xun Literary Award is one of the national literary awards sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association. It is awarded every three years. Its awards include seven categories: novellas, short stories, poetry, reportage, prose essays, theoretical criticism and foreign literature translation. The award implements the principles of "openness, fairness, impartiality" and "it's better to be deficient than indiscriminate". It has strict procedural regulations and supervision mechanisms for both the selection of award committee members and the collection and selection of participating works. Therefore, it enjoys high prestige in the literary world and even all walks of life. Writers who have won this award include veterans in the literary world as well as newcomers in the literary field. They have demonstrated the representative style of a certain style of Chinese literature in a certain period. Writers who have won the Lu Xun Literature Award, in addition to the iconic level of their award-winning works, their other works are also of considerable quality. It reflects the higher achievements of a certain genre of contemporary Chinese literature.

"The Flower in the Mirror" is a collection of novellas written by Guan Renshan, which collects the author's short and medium-length works since he became famous. Among these works are novels that reflect the ideal pursuit and disillusionment of urban strangers, such as "The Bowl of Flowers in the Mirror"; some express the persistence of rural culture and rural hometown, such as "Drunk Drums" and "Ship Ceremony". These works focus on the family, friendship, love and other lives of farmers and rural areas in the changing times. They are close to the lives of rural people, the themes are well grasped, and the thoughts are profound.

Selects the national outstanding novellas published by "Selected Novels", aiming to create an authoritative, objective and impartial annual selection of Chinese literature, and provide readers with short stories that are both ideological and artistic, representative and influential.

The collection of novels includes 9 short and medium-length novels: "Old Mo", "Pisces", "Little Kiss", "Fire Eyes in the Magic Tent", "Falling Flower Dream", "Crescent Moon Girl", "The 100th Ear", "Do You Want to Tell Her" and "Jialing's Lost Dream". It tells readers the story of the past soaked in blood and tears, which is a thrilling blend of blood and tears. The beautiful fallen flowers drifted away with the torrent of mourning in the dream, and the orphans of the martyrs continued to fight on the bloodstains of their parents. History has left us so many touching stories...

Kuncheng is a town, and the town is a river and lake. There are always people floating around in the world, and dangerous things happening secretly. The work describes people and events in Kuncheng, spanning several decades. It includes different stories of love, hate, life and death, as well as strange characters such as corpse-carriers, drunkards, and theater actors. However, it mostly presents the unique inner thoughts of people in their daily lives. A small town in the south of the Yangtze River, where all living things are staged. ? This book collects 12 short stories and short stories by writer Zhong Qiushi. These works were first published in publications such as "Harvest", "People's Literature", "Contemporary" and "October".

"The Scream" is Lu Xun's first collection of short stories. The work truly depicts social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. Starting from revolutionary democracy, with the purpose of enlightenment and the spirit of humanitarianism, it reveals various deep-seated social contradictions, conducts a profound analysis and relatively complete negation of the old Chinese system and some outdated traditional concepts, and shows a strong sense of worry for national survival and a strong hope for social change. "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk" is Lu Xun's first collection of retrospective essays. "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk" describes Lu Xun's life from childhood, adolescence to youth. It is full of childlike interest and the writing is fresh and beautiful. It is one of Lu Xun's few classic works that is extremely suitable for young readers.

This book is a collection of novellas by Bi Feiyu, winner of the first Lu Xun Literature Award for Short Story. The book consists of 10 strange youth stories. The novels take cruel youth and warm life experience as the theme - the characters in the novels are both evil and good, with different styles. There are many wonderful sentences and the ending is thought-provoking. Bi Feiyu's works have been translated into many languages ​​and published abroad. "The Breastfeeding Woman" won the first Lu Xun Literature Award for short story.

This is a collection of short stories by Ba Jin. The representative work "The Resurrection Grass" directly describes Ba Lao's life upstairs in Shapingba Husheng Bookstore. This book brings together many of Ba Jin's novels. From here you can learn more about Ba Jin's artistic style and writing characteristics. The author's works are selected: Revenge; The Silent Grand Piano; Dog; Sudi; Moonlight Night; General; Sinking; The Day the Snow Melts; Ghost; Resurrection Plant; Pigs and Chickens; Under the Window; Resting Garden, etc.

Si Jidong, a writer born in the 1970s, has been diligently writing short stories. The 17 short stories collected this time are selected from various stages of his 20-year creative career. Among them, "Nessun Dorma", "Why Are You Guilty", "Xiliang" and other works have frequently appeared in various selected magazines, annual anthologies and ranking lists. "Si Jidong's novels have a distinct physicality. Every inch of the body's skin is in close contact with life, so it shows richness and complexity." Si Jidong "consciously infuses national emotions and symptoms of the times into avant-garde narratives", "the formal avant-garde nature of the work and the reality of the theme are organically integrated", showing the new generation of avant-garde literature's "artistic consciousness of the symbiosis of personal daily experience, social emotions and mental symptoms."

"Crossing the State and Household: Zhegui's Selected Works" is one of the "Top 10 Novelists in Zhejiang" series launched by the Zhejiang Writers Association. This series includes short stories and short stories published by 10 powerful writers in Zhejiang in recent years, each with about 200,000 words. The 10 writers selected them and compiled them into a book. This book is the story of a special group of people: a group of successful people who have accumulated wealth in China's rapid economic development in the past few decades. Therefore, they are highly envied and jealous. In the eyes of the public, they are in heaven and hell: a heaven for certain worldly values ​​and a hell for morals. In this era, this group of people are called "heroes", people who create or promote the development of the era. Because of this, the pain they feel may be the pain of society, and the sorrow they feel may be the sorrow of history. Their problems are our problems, China's and mankind's.

"Killing a Man in Ten Steps: Ma Wei's Auto-Selected Collection" selects ten short and medium-length stories by the writer Ma Wei, covering a wide range of topics, including growth, marginalized people, intellectuals, love, history, bottom survival, etc. A teenager steals a gun, triggering the sprouting of youth ("Earthquake in Buenos Aires"); a lonely person steps towards self-isolation and self-exile ("Kill a Man in Ten Steps" and "Going Home"); how do alternative people who have a rigid relationship with reality complete redemption ("Deformity"); and how do leaders from the bottom lead themselves step by step into the abyss ("Three Minutes of Silence for Horses"). These unique life samples demonstrate Ma Wei's experience of life from different angles.

The novella collection "Man·Camel·Wolf" includes five outstanding novellas in Mongolian literary creation since the founding of the People's Republic of China: "Man·Camel·Wolf", "Gerel Tuya", "Dolima and Dolima", "Eji's Hometown", and "Wind Fortune". ?"Human, Camel, Wolf" takes the prairie as the background, puts humans, camels, and wolves on equal footing, and describes ecology and human hearts in cross-contrast. The protagonist of "Wind Fortune" discovered a coal mine in a contracted pasture, became rich overnight, and entered the city. Money continued to expand his selfish desires and greed, and he eventually became a pauper. These novels vividly describe Mongolian history and real life from different levels, have a tangible texture of life, show the impact of historical changes and social development on people's hearts and the environment, and reflect the artistic pursuit and achievements of Mongolian novella creation in recent years.

"Xuan Bai (Wu Xuan's Selected Works)" includes eight novels written by the writer Wu Xuan. "Xuanbai" is a classical narrative, "Western Land" and "Hair Salon" are modern narratives, and "Whose Body" and "Cohabitation" are postmodern narratives. From classical to postmodern narratives, these eight novels not only reflect the changes in narratives, but also present the changes of the times.

This book is a self-selected collection of short stories by Liu Xinglong. It includes six novels, including "Twilight Class Recitation", "Music Cabin", "Clear Water without Fragrance", "To Chevrolet", "City Eyeshadow" and "See You in Hong Kong".

Liu Xinglong, who once brought a powerful "realism shock wave" to the Chinese literary world, is famous for his rural novel creation and is an important representative of the literary Han army. This book selects six representative short and medium-sized novels by Liu Xinglong, including "The Big Tree Is Still Small", "Twilight Class Recital", "Cabbage and Carrot", "Peacock Green", "Peasant Writer", and "To Chevrolet".

Liu Xinglong looks more for the shining points of human nature from secular people, recommends the noble among ordinary people, and creates an ordinary but not mediocre image. For example, Principal Yu in "Phoenix Piano" and Shi Debao in "Carrying Tea to Beijing", etc., Through these colorful characters created by Liu Xinglong, we see the spirit and lofty ideological realm of the Chinese nation reflected in these ordinary characters, and we also see the hope that our nation can survive, reproduce and grow.

This book is the representative novella of the author Liu Xinglong. It contains 9 of the author's best novellas, including the Lu Xun Literature Award-winning work "Carrying Tea to Beijing", the Hundred Flowers Award-winning work "Phoenix Piano", "Cai Choi and Radish" and "Sharing Difficulties", the "United Literature Award" winning work "Autumn Wind Drunken", etc. The work directly faces the social reality around the 1990s, with sophisticated writing style and excellent literary, ideological and artistic qualities.

This book is a selection of representative novellas and recent works by Liu Xinglong, a famous contemporary Chinese realist novelist.

This book is a collection of short and medium stories, covering a series of topics such as the love story of the Hezhe people fishing, the Hezhe people's resistance to Japan, demolition, sanitation and production teams, etc. The novel "Usuli Boat Song" shows the Hezhe people's charming unique customs and beautiful noble sentiments through vivid description; the novel "Mysterious Yierga" describes the Hezhe girls who were both wise and brave in the Anti-Japanese War and killed the enemy bravely, showing that the Hezhe people are a brave and fearless male tribe...

"Encounter/Wang Zengqi's Classic Collected Works" selects 22 classic novels by Wang Zengqi, including his masterpieces "Encounter", "Three Friends in the Winter", "Qili Teahouse" and other works, which fully demonstrates the different styles of his novels. In these novels, Mr. Wang Zengqi created small characters with distinctive personalities, and described folk customs with local characteristics in a lyrical style, with a simple and natural writing style.

There are such a group of "mysterious" characters active in the rural areas of Ningxia: they look like farmers but are not farmers, but they work with farmers all day long. They have not only established a deep friendship with farmers, but also formed a community of shared interests and risks with farmers; their guidance and help are indispensable in all aspects of agricultural production. They are "technical commissioners" with special missions. The entrepreneurial actions led by them are unfolding in the vast rural areas of Ningxia.

"The Complete Works of Orwell's Novels" consists of six volumes: "The Burmese Years", "The Vicar's Daughter", "Let the Orchid Fly", "Come Up for Breath", "Animal Farm" and "1984". "The Complete Works of Orwell", together with "The Complete Works of Orwell's Documentary Works" and "The Complete Works of Orwell's Essays", form the "Complete Works of Orwell" series.

Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, is known as the "Three Immigrants in the British Literary Circle" along with Naipaul and Rushdie. Kazuo Ishiguro does not have many works, but almost every one of them has won important literary awards: "Shadow on the Mountain" won the Winifred Holby Memorial Award, "The Painter of the Floating World" won the Whitbread Best Novel Award of the Year, "The End of the Day" won the Booker Prize, "No Consolation" won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Art, "The Painter of the Floating World", "We Are Orphans" and "Don't Lose or Forget" were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 "for his tremendous emotional power in unearthing the abyss hidden beneath our illusory connections with the world." This set contains all eight of Kazuo Ishiguro's published works: "The End of the Day", "Don't Lose, Don't Forget", "Shadows on the Mountains", "Inconsolable", "The Buried Giant", "The Orphan of Ours", "The Painter of the Floating World" and "Serenade: Five Stories of Music and Dusk".

There are 9 Fitzgerald anthology sets in total: "Heaven on Earth", "Those Sad Young People", "Tender Is the Night", "Stories of the Jazz Age", "The Flying Girl and the Philosopher", "The Great Gatsby", "Collapse", "The Last Tycoon", "Beauty and Sin". "Heaven on Earth" is the author's first novel and an epoch-making work. "Those Sad Young People" is the author's third collection of novels. It collects several excellent short stories published by the author in various publications, focusing on the essence of Fitzgerald's short stories.

"Selected Short Stories of O. Henry" selects 12 well-known classic stories by O. Henry, including "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Leaf", "Twenty Years Later", "The Police and the Hymn", "Devotion of Love", "While the Car Waits", "The Romance of a Busy Stockbroker", "A Furnished Room for Rent", "Confessions of a Humorist", "Spring on the Menu", "The God of Mammon and the God of Love" and "Message". Each story has its own hidden meaning and the life aspects of different characters it wants to show. These stories show ridiculous plots, unique humor and endings that are absolutely unpredictable until the last second.

This is a collection of spicy and spicy emotional stories that will break your three views. Men will be silent after reading it, and women will wake up after reading it. No matter you are single, born in the 80s or 90s, are having a sweet craze, or are troubled by an unconventional relationship, after reading this book, you will understand that "every pair of glass shoes" Everything will be covered with dust." "Nothing can compare with the words 'willingness'." "Although ninety-nine percent of true love will eventually end in ruthlessness, we must live well for the one percent true love." Finally, we understand that every choice we make in the past and present is the best arrangement.

"Miss Queenie's Big Stone House" is a heart-warming long story. It depicts vivid Irish life scenes to readers by telling the life experiences of multiple protagonists. Binky gathers everyone at a vacation home called "The Stone House." There, people shared their experiences, enlightened each other, and ultimately established deep friendships. Chestnut Street is a collection of short stories by Maeve Binch. The stories of the protagonists seem to be different, but they are all inextricably linked to "Chestnut Street". All aspects of life come together to form a rich story line. To be honest, when it comes to storytelling skills, especially stories about love and warmth, almost no one can compare with Maeve. "Everybody Loves Frankie" is a story about "love and redemption". It takes the ups and downs of the lives of the male and female protagonists as the main line, and the young protagonist Frankie as the intersection, presenting readers with a growth and transformation with a religious meaning.

"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.

"The Trembling of a Leaf" is a collection of single-volume short stories compiled and selected by Maugham himself during his lifetime. It includes six short stories set in the South Pacific islands. The materials are all based on the author's experiences traveling in the Pacific region. In these stories, the exotic scenery of the South Pacific islands is beautiful but dangerous, comfortable and strange, giving the works a magical and charming charm. From governors to servants, from ladies to street prostitutes, these Westerners living in the Far East colonies experienced life experiences and emotional ups and downs that they could not imagine and experience in the comfortable lives in their hometowns, and displayed distinctive and outstanding character traits; their satisfaction, joy, and pursuit of the ideal world, as well as their weakness, hypocrisy, and emptiness, vividly presented Maugham's questioning and thinking about complex human nature.

From "Liao Zhai" to "The Romance of the West Chamber", everything has been "copied" from it! Feng Menglong carefully compiled and annotated the "originator-level" legends of legends of monsters. Lu Xun bluntly said that he would never buy another book about fox ghosts again. There are 40 prototypes of stories in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" recorded in this book, such as "Taoist of Mount Laoshan", "Xu Huangliang", "Huifang", "Jia Feng Pheasant", etc. "The Romance of the West Chamber" was originally a tragedy, but it was called "The Story of Yingying" when it was included in "Taiping Guangji". "The Assassin Nie Yinniang" is based on "Nie Yinniang" written by Pei Chuan of the Tang Dynasty. The original text has been lost for a long time and is only recorded in "Taiping Guangji" and has been passed down to this day. "Taiping Guangji" is so long and difficult to read that it is difficult to read. Feng Menglong combined the themes and refined the words into 80 volumes. The categories are concise, smooth and easy to read! Feng Menglong's detailed annotations and comments on 3,000 articles, explanations, explanations, and insightful insights make it truly a "holy medicine for healing the common people." This book uses the rare "Great Tomorrow Qichu Engraved Edition" as the base, and has revised 50 text errors and omissions in the old version. "Taiping Guangji" is one of the large-scale books compiled in the early Northern Song Dynasty in my country. It has 500 volumes and a ten-volume table of contents. It is based on more than 400 kinds of novels, notebooks, unofficial histories, essays, commentaries, and Taoist scriptures from the Han Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty. It can be regarded as a collection of ancient Chinese novels and the "encyclopedia" of the Song Dynasty. It is rich in content and full of interest. It is the source of ancient Chinese "spirits and legends" literature and has the greatest influence on later generations of literature.

It will all be over soon. Julia Gates has forgotten how many times she told herself this. Today, finally, it's coming to an end. In a few hours, the truth will come out. Yes, if all goes well. Unfortunately, the Pacific Coast Highway was backed up like a parking lot. There was another fire in the hills behind Malibu, thick smoke billowing from the rooftops and coating the usually bright seaside sky with a thick layer of brown sludge. It was still midnight, and all the children in the city were frightened awake. They all shed gray-black tears, gasped and cried loudly. Even the waves seemed to slow down, as if they were exhausted by the sudden heat wave.

The movie of the same name ranked first in both the imdb top 250 and the douban movie top 250. This book is Stephen King's beloved masterpiece, collecting four of his novellas. As soon as its English version was released, it topped the New York Times bestseller list and sold 280,000 copies in the United States that year. The book has been translated into thirty-one languages, and three of the four novels have been adapted into blockbuster movies. The most talked about among them is "The Shawshank Redemption", which was nominated for seven Academy Awards and is hailed as one of the perfect films in the history of cinema. This novel demonstrates Stephen King's extraordinary skills beyond the thriller genre that he is good at. The other two novels in the book, "The Nazi Disciple" and "The Corpse" also won good reputations after being made into movies. Among them, "The Corpse" is also regarded as Stephen King's most autobiographical work.

"Johan Christophe" is Romain Rolland's landmark masterpiece in art and thought. It took more than twenty years from conception to complete publication. With this work, Romain Rolland won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy's award citation praised the high ideals of his work, as well as his compassion and love of truth in depicting different types of characters. "John Christopher" is not a novel, it should be said: more than a novel, but a great epic of mankind. What it depicts and sings is not the hardships experienced by human beings in the material aspect but the spiritual aspect. It is not the victory of conquering the outside world but the conquering of the inner world. It is a mirror of millions of living beings, an adventure story of heroes and sages from ancient and modern times at home and abroad, and a grand symphony in the style of Beethoven. Warrior, when you know that you are not the only one suffering in the world, you will definitely feel less pain, and your hope will always be reborn in despair!

"Someone at That Time" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Keigo Higashino. It is the first time that the author's collection of works in the 25 years since his debut has been compiled and published. The eight stories cover Higashino's creative styles in different periods, each of them is exquisite and unique. A female lawyer kindly took in an amnesiac girl who got lost on a rainy night, but found a bloody dagger in the girl's handkerchief; the daughter who survived the car accident actually possessed the soul of his wife after waking up; a couple luckily adopted a newborn baby, but the baby's angelic face hid a tragic revenge plan...

A mental patient has received pure love, a woman holding a baby is still a child at heart, a car repairman covered in oil allows his wife to have an affair, and a laughing and playing boy holds a murder weapon in the dark night. Is the life of ordinary people really ordinary? All kinds of people come and go in a hurry before our eyes. We focus on our own world and never notice them... In the form of novels, young female writer Yu Jingru tries to explore these seemingly ordinary strangers and explore the hidden turmoil of daily life. A picture in her imagination led to her first short story collection "Cousin Anna". She casts her gaze on the memories of her childhood and adolescence, and also on the multiple possibilities of the interaction between character and destiny. Under her calm narrative, what is hidden is the patient management and multi-layered peeling off of the characters.

This article includes "Bear Town", "The Life of the Disliked Pinecone", "Out of the Wild", "Angel's Sorrow", "Beyond the Sea", "Shoplifters", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "You Are My Everything", "Sarah's Key", "Farming Food Love", "Deeper Than the Sea", "Bernadette, Where Are You Going", "The Man at the Edge of Time", "Grandpa Must Get a Divorce".

This book is a collection of short stories in which the protagonists are all "Lao Dong". Lao Dong graduated from university and found a job in the county. His life was not satisfactory, but he never forgot to return to his hometown in Pancun. In the contact with relatives in his hometown, he experienced the flavor of life in the passage of time and discovered the secret of life.

Hesse's creative career lasted for 70 years, and his works cover a wide range. In addition to novels such as "Under the Wheel", "Steppenwolf", "Narziss and Goldmund", and "The Glass Bead Game", Hesse has never stopped writing short and medium stories. Hesse is good at using symbolic artistic techniques to reflect the deep sting caused by the outside world to the human soul from the spiritual and psychological aspects, so that the inner meaning of the work can be condensed and sublimated. The 26 short stories and short stories collected in this book are all the best of Hesse's works. They reflect the author's characteristics and styles in different creative periods in the early, middle and late periods. They are of great help and inspiration for us to fully understand Hesse and his creative thoughts and art.

Xiangzi's dream, who came to Beijing to work, was to earn a car, a car of his own, like a badge that showed his status. He went out early and came back late, worked hard, and his life seemed to be on the hook. Finally, he bought a car of his own for ninety-six yuan. But bad luck, the first car was confiscated by the soldiers. Xiangzi escaped from the soldiers and took a few camels with him. After selling the camels, he returned to "Renhe Car Factory" and worked hard to buy another car. He said, "If I don't work so hard, how long will it take to buy a car?" After that, Huniu planned to marry Xiangzi. Although he lived a stable life that he had never expected, Xiangzi couldn't control his desire to have a car of his own. Finally, Huniu used the money in her hands to buy the car of Er Qiangzi next door. A heavy rain made Xiangzi sick and the root of the disease fell. Misfortunes never come singly, Huniu had a difficult delivery, Xiangzi had to sell the car to accommodate Huniu and the unborn child. "Wait! When I'm done, I'll come, I'll definitely come!" This was Xiangzi's promise to his "confidante" Xiao Fuzi. However, Xiao Fuzi did not survive until Xiangzi became successful, so he hung himself from a tree behind the white house. Xiangzi also became a "degenerate ghost of individualism."

This book collects Hesse's twenty fairy tales, covering his entire creative career and witnessing his life trajectory. Hesse's fairy tales are not fairy tales in the traditional sense, but they are deeply influenced by Eastern and Western fairy tale traditions. From "Two Brothers", which he created when he was ten years old, to his last piece, "Birds" written in 1933, they bear witness to Hesse's attempts to use this genre to record his inner world as an artist. Like many European writers of his generation, Hesse paid close attention to everything happening around him: the rapid development of science and technology, the rise of materialism, the outbreak of world wars, economic boom and recession... All these, as well as the traumas, questions and dreams he personally experienced, are perfectly reflected in the world of artistic fairy tales.

After Kenzo returned to Tokyo from studying in the UK, he devoted himself to learning with full enthusiasm, but his monthly salary was only enough for his family to live frugally. The downcast father-in-law, poor adoptive parents, skinny brother and sick sister all regarded Kenzo, who had studied abroad, as their "backbone" and asked him for money directly or indirectly. Although his life was in embarrassment, Kenzo would give him some due to his kindness. And because he is not good at expressing his feelings and thoughts, he often has conflicts with his wife. Kenzo is struggling to make a living and is not good at socializing, unable to relieve his mental loneliness and confusion. Caught between money and ideals, he reflects on the meaning of life while struggling to hold on to his ideals. Finally, everything finally came to an end for the time being.