《孽海花》是晚清四大谴责小说之一,在中国小说史上是一部当之无愧的文学名著。小说不仅规模宏阔、思想深刻,语言也极具特色,通过夸张、反语、对比等手法的运用,使此书生动而又深刻,达到了入木三分的讽刺性效果。 “Niehaihua” is one of the four censured novels in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a well-deserved literary masterpiece in the history of Chinese novels. The novel not only has a grand scale, a profound thought and a distinctive language. Through the application of exaggeration, irony and comparison, the novel vividly and profoundly achieves the satirical effect of one-third.