The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant: The World's Greatest Writers Series (9 Volumes)

Author: Gui Yufang (Editor)
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Publish Date: 1996-09-01
Features: In 2000, the authoritative American magazine Reader's Digest spent a full year tracking and investigating writers from five continents, revealing a surprising figure: 91% of global reading time in 2000 was spent on short stories. Based on this, the following conclusion was drawn: the 21st century will be the century of the short story! The World Collection of Famous Short Stories includes hundreds of excellent short stories by dozens of renowned short story writers from five continents, all carefully selected and repeatedly reviewed by famous foreign literature translators, critics, and scholars in China. These works are the most celebrated, widely circulated, and artistically accomplished masterpieces in the history of world literature. The overall selection principle is "famous authors, famous works, and famous translations," gathering short story masterpieces from dozens of world literary giants such as émile Zola, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Rabindranath Tagore, Anton Chekhov, Honoré de Balzac, Thomas Hardy, Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka, Guy de Maupassant, Giovanni Boccaccio, Mark Twain, and Leo Tolstoy. The content includes works such as The Overcoat, The Nose, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Necklace, The Ballad of the White Sheath, Notes from Underground, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Decameron. The translators selected are the finest talents in contemporary Chinese literary translation, and their versions are lively, dynamic in plot, concise in language, and address the shortcomings of previous translations from various perspectives, filling significant gaps in the history of Chinese literary translation and publishing.