《中国新文学大系》(1927—1937年),即将出版,它精选了这十年间的代表性作品中,对于这期间出版的几百部长篇小说中只选了五部,其中包括了萧军同志的《八月的乡村》。这五部小说“被誉为新文学杰作”。萧军的《八月的乡村》完稿于1934年,1935年初版,署名“田军”,由上海容光书局作为奴隶社的“奴隶丛书”之二出版。 1931年“九·一八”事变后,东北沦亡,广大人民群众在水深火热之中,爱国志士纷纷抵抗,也有些爱国群众离开东北进入关内。舒群(李旭东)于1934年春到了青岛,接着写信给他的朋友萧军和萧红,这 A large collection of Chinese new literature (1927-1937), forthcoming, is a selection of representative works from these ten years, of which only five were selected from hundreds of novels published during this period, including Comrade Xiao Jun’s “August Countryside”. These five novels have been hailed as the new literary masterpiece. Xiao Jun’s “Village in August” was published in the first edition of 1934, the first edition of 1935 with the signature of “Tian Jun,” published by Shanghai Rongguang Publishing House as “Slave Series” of the slave trade. After the “September 18” incident in 1931, the northeast was perished and the broad masses of the people were in dire straits. Patriots were resisting one after another. Some patriotic masses left the northeast to enter the customs. Shu Qun (Li Xudong) arrived in Qingdao in the spring of 1934, and then wrote to his friends Xiao Jun and Xiao Hong