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Humor's Great Literary Master
This book traces the life of Mark Twain, America's great humorist and satirist, beginning with his birth in Florida, Missouri, and his childhood in th…
Guo Moruo's Autobiography, Volume 4: Song of the Torrent
Guizhou Educational Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2012
This volume is the fourth installment of Guo Moruo's autobiography, comprising three parts: "Song of the Surging Waves: A Memoir of the War of Resista…
A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study
George Bell and Sons · 1902
This book is a biography and literary study by the English clergyman and writer William Tuckwell (1829–1919) of the travel writer and historian Alexan…
The Life of George Borrow
John Murray · 1912
The Life of George Borrow is a biography of the nineteenth-century English writer George Henry Borrow (1803–1881) written by the English author and pu…
You Are the Brocade Zither, I Am the Fleeting Years: Sanmao's Journey Across Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019
This is a literary biography of Sanmao by the bestselling author Bai Luomei. In her customary clear, delicate, and poetic prose, the book follows the …
Shen Congwen's Later Years: 1948–1988
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2014
This book is a biography of Shen Congwen's later years by Zhang Xinying, a professor in the Department of Chinese at Fudan University, covering the fo…
Blossom: Eileen Chang's First Half
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2016
This book is a biography of Eileen Chang by Shanghai writer and arts editor Chunzi, a companion volume to Fallen Petals: Eileen Chang's Second Half an…
Peter Handke: On the Road Toward the Ninth Country
People's Literature Publishing House · 2021
Around the time Handke won the Nobel Prize, Chinese-language introductions to him focused mainly on a few works such as Offending the Audience, The Go…
Arthur Rimbaud
People's Literature Publishing House · 2022
Rimbaud is one of the hardest subjects in literary history to biographize: he completed almost all his work before turning twenty, then left literatur…
My Life Has Limits, My Will Has None: Liang Shuming's Autobiographical Writings
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2013
There are many biographies of Liang Shuming in print, drawing on broadly similar materials, differing mainly in interpretation; the value of this book…
Duras: A Life Through a Century
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) was one of the most controversial and most captivating French writers of the twentieth century. She won the Goncourt Priz…
When Tsangyang Gyatso Met Nalan Rongruo
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2019
This book is a collection of biographies and poetry appreciation by the writer Suiyuan Sanren, placing two poets separated by more than three centurie…
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing is the only officially authorized biography of J.M. Coetzee, the South African Nobel laureate in literature. The autho…
Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China: The Literary Masters
Modern Press · 2018
This book is the **literature volume** of the Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China series. The author, Minguo Wenlin, is a Beijing-based …
Kang Zhen on Li Qingzhao
Zhonghua Book Company · 2007
Li Qingzhao is the most outstanding woman poet in the history of Chinese literature. Her lines include the joy of "Row, row, row, startling a flock of…
Illustrated Zweig Biographies Series
People's Literature Publishing House
The "Illustrated Zweig Biographies Series" is a collection of Chinese translations of Stefan Zweig's biographies, published over time by People's Lite…
Zi Ping Autobiography
Shanghai First Publishing House · 1934
Ziping Zizhuan (The Autobiography of Ziping) is an autobiographical work by the writer Zhang Ziping, published by Shanghai First Publishing House in 1…
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview
CITIC Press · 2019
This book is the Wallace volume in "The Last Interview" series (Series 1, Book 06), collecting six interviews with the American writer David Foster Wa…
The Conscience of Russia: A Biography of Solzhenitsyn
New Star Press · 2016
Written by Georges Nivat, a French Slavist and leading Solzhenitsyn scholar, and translated by Sun Chao, this book is a volume in the "Reading Russia"…
Reminiscences of Tolstoy
The Hogarth Press · 1920
This book is a collection of Maxim Gorky's reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy, translated from the authorized Russian text into English by S. S. Koteliansky…