Yù Dafu Collection (Novel Volume)

Author: Yu Dafu (Author), Yuan Shengyong (Editor and Annotator)
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features:
1. This collection is divided into two volumes: I. Novel Volume; II. Prose Volume.
1. The Novel Volume includes 26 of the author's novels such as Sunken, Southward Migration, Late Osmanthus, etc.
2. The Prose Volume includes representative articles written by the author in various periods, categorized by content and genre into five sections: Sentimental Narratives, Travel Sketches, Character Recollections, Miscellaneous Essays, and Diary Autobiographies.
2. The annotations in this book are divided into title annotations and text annotations.
1. Each article's title annotation generally indicates the original publication source (newspapers annotated with date, periodicals with year and issue number), as well as the author's name used at the time of publication and later inclusion in other collections. Title annotations provide as objectively as possible the relevant circumstances and background materials of the author's writing at the time, for reference by readers.
2. Text annotations are placed at the end of each article. To avoid redundancy and triviality, phrases and sentences that are not unfamiliar to general readers and do not pose reading obstacles are generally not annotated.
3. Any original annotations by the author are clearly marked as "Author's Original Annotation."
3. The illustrations in this book have been extensively collected to include relevant photographs and cultural relics of Yu Dafu, providing readers with some visual materials to better understand the author.
Content:
After the snow in Tokyo, the city seems even more lively than usual. The breeze blowing down from the summit of Mount Fuji cannot cool the fervent hearts of the people in the city. The date of the star that moved in the sky above Bethlehem nearly 1,920 years ago is approaching again. Shops on every street and alley are decorated as if they were newlyweds, striving to attract more customers to increase their profits for the end of the year. This is the time when both the poor and the wealthy are busy, and also the time when those who are leaving and parting feel endless sorrow.