小说以大阪的名门望族莳冈家四姐妹为主人公，以美丽娴静的三妹雪子的相亲故事为主线，旁及当地的风土人情、社会事件、对外交往等等。作品犹如一幅色彩艳丽、格调高雅的绘画长卷，展现了现代日本关西地区上流社会的生活全貌，被誉为具有古典主义风格的最上乘的风俗小说。 细雪》是一部描述日本中产阶级青年男女之间爱情故事的风俗小说。 小说采用以情为主、情与景、情与事交融的写实主义手法，成功塑造了以雪子为首的众多人物形象。作者善于选择和安排情节，真实生动地表现了这些人的思想感情和独特命运。人物对话采用大阪方言，别具特色。河畔捕萤以及洪水泛滥等情节的刻画精彩动人，仿佛将一幅栩栩如生的生活画卷展现在读者面前，给人以美的享受。小说对京阪一带的风土人情、重大社会事件也作了真实细致的描写。

George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his lover, Julia. One of the bleakest political novels ever written, 1984 illustrates Orwell's despair that democracy could ever summon the strength to overcome totalitarianism in his lifetime.