It is a collection of 32 short stories, including works by British writers Hardy and Maugham, Russian writers Chekov, American writers Steinpeik, Saloyan and others.
These works are all excellent works translated by the Chinese female translator Shen Ying, and have been selected into the "Series of Masterpieces of Foreign Ancient and Modern Literature".
Shen Ying (1907-1988), formerly known as Chen Ying, a native of Shandong, graduated from the department of Chinese of Shanghai University, and is a female writer and translator who grew up in the early 1930s. In 1934, he went to Japan to study Japanese literature, and returned to China in 1935 to marry the poet and translator Liang Zongdai. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he lived in Chongqing. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at Fudan University, went to Taiwan in 1949, taught in middle school for 17 years, retired in 1967, and then settled in the United States until his death.
Most of Shen Ying's works are the content of love marriage, and in terms of literary creation, after Ding Ling and before Zhang Ailing, she is a modern female writer with the status of inheriting the past and the future.
Her literary achievements are mainly in the field of translation, and her translations are quite abundant. After the publication of her translation of the Austrian writer Zweig's novel collection "Letters from a Strange Woman", the book has been selling well at home and abroad for decades.
