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About the author

Gao Dayou is an author about whom little public information is available. His seven works in the library are commonly classified under foreign literature and social fiction. Judging from his representative titles, he has been involved in translating or editing foreign literary classics, including The Stranger, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, Strait Is the Gate, My Life, The Monkey's Paw, and a selection of three Chekhov short stories titled To Whom Shall I Tell My Sorrow. These works generally focus on solitude, emotional conflict, and turning points of fate in individual lives, with themes leaning toward social and psychological portrayal, reflecting a sustained engagement with the transmission of foreign literature.

Written (7)

The Stranger cover
Rating 4.7
The Stranger Albert Camus / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 The protagonist, Meursault, is indifferent to society's rules and goes on trial for murder. Refusing to feign emotions, he is seen as an outsider and …
Letter from an Unknown Woman cover
Rating 4.7
Letter from an Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 In the final hours of her life, an unknown woman writes a long letter to a celebrated writer, confessing a desperate, ardent love that has lasted sinc…
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman cover
Rating 4.7
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman Stefan Zweig / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is a novella by Stefan Zweig. It tells how Mrs. C, a widow, tries to save a desperate young gambler at the Mo…
Strait Is the Gate cover
Rating 4.5
Strait Is the Gate André Gide / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 As a boy, Jérôme falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa, and together they strive toward the narrow gate that leads to holiness. Pulled between f…
My Life cover
Rating 4.4
My Life Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 A young aristocrat gives up respectable work and chooses manual labor to support himself, sparking fierce conflict with his family. After a brief marr…
To Whom Shall I Tell My Sorrow (Three Selected Short Stories by Chekhov) cover
Rating 4.3
To Whom Shall I Tell My Sorrow (Three Selected Short Stories by Chekhov) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 This volume includes three classic Chekhov short stories: "Vanka", "Sleepy" and "My Sorrow, Who to Tell" (also known as "Misery").
The Monkey's Paw cover
Rating 4.0
The Monkey's Paw W.W.雅各布斯 / 高大友 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 An old soldier gives the White family a cursed monkey's paw that he says will grant three wishes. The couple wish for compensation money, but it comes…

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