Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.
又名《七十二朝四书人物演义》，是明代的一部较为特殊的白话小说集，共四十卷，每卷独立成篇。与其他小说不同的是，这四十篇文字正文所写的人物和事件都源于“四书”，每卷题目也均取自“四书”中的原句。因其所描写的“四书”中提及的人物分属于春秋列朝，“那时天下有七十二国”，故冠之以“七十二朝人物”。孙楷第先生在《中国通俗小说书目》中将之置于“明清小说部甲”中，但又视其为“译述性质”，认为“去通俗小说甚远”，因此“姑附诸书之后”，表明其体制的特殊性。据孙楷第先生著录，有明刊本，日本内阁文库、静嘉堂文库藏；光绪丁酉上海十万卷楼石印本，每卷有图，有总评、旁评。石印本封面题“李卓吾先生秘本”，“诸名家汇评写像”，有庚辰仲春癯道人序和空冷散人、磊道人二序。
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.
清代长篇小说，云阳嗤嗤道人著。现藏哈佛大学图书馆。小说叙明朝嘉靖年间，宁波乡宦之子祝琼与五位美女的姻缘情事。故事情节曲折动人，于男女情事的描写则细腻有加，极至处令人侧目。《五凤吟》四卷二十回，现存草闲堂刊本，题“云阳嗤嗤道人编著”，“古越苏潭道人评定”，亦题“步月主人订”。首卷有“引场细事”。现藏大连图书馆。又凤吟楼刊本，题“新续刻六才子书”，四卷二十回，藏哈佛大学、日本浅草文库。又稼史轩刊本，内封右栏偏上署“步月主人订”，中栏题“五凤吟”，左栏偏下镌“稼史斋藏板”，四卷二十回，藏北京图书馆。又清末石印袖珍本，题“绣像素梅姐全传”。本书载于日本宝历甲戌（乾隆十九年，一七五四年）《舶载书目》 ，由此断定书约写成于乾隆十九年前。