《长河》是沈从文乡土小说的长篇力作,1938年创作于抗战大后方的昆明。作品先在报刊上发表,之后结集出版单行本。内容是写上世纪30年代前期的湘西农村,但因触及国民党反动统治的诸多弊端,从开始发表到最后成书,曾屡遭扣压和删削。1943年,作者在为它所写的《题记》中,曾 “The Long River” is a masterpiece of Shen Congwen’s native novels. In 1938, it was created in Kunming, the rear of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Works first published in the press, after the collection of a single copy of the booklet. The content is written in the rural areas of western Hunan in the early 1930s. However, many malpractices of the Kuomintang reactionary rule have been handed over to the last book, which have been repeatedly forcibly taken away and deleted. In 1943, the author wrote for it in the “inscription”, ever