World Classics

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Rating 4.3
Simplicissimus Grimmelshausen People's Literature Publishing House · 2004 Simplicissimus is a representative work of German Baroque literature, written by Grimmelshausen under the original German title Der abenteuerliche Sim…
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Within an Inch of His Life Émile Gaboriau · 1873 A novel by Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), a pioneer of French detective fiction. Written in French, it is best known through its English translation. The…
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The Captives Hugh Walpole Pan Macmillan · 1920 The Captives (1920) is the third novel in Hugh Walpole's The Rising City trilogy, following The Duchess of Wrexe and The Green Mirror. Divided into fo…
The "Lost Classics" Series (6 Volumes): The Radetzky March · Island · The Envoy · When You Grow Old · The Big Clock · Mephisto cover
Rating 3.9
The "Lost Classics" Series (6 Volumes): The Radetzky March · Island · The Envoy · When You Grow Old · The Big Clock · Mephisto 约瑟夫·罗特 / 克劳斯·曼 / Aldous Huxley / Kenneth Fearing / 伊塔洛·斯韦沃 / Henry James TIANDI PRESS · 2018 "Lost Classics" is a series of retranslated modern foreign literature launched by Tiandi Publishing House (produced by Babel Culture) in 2018. All six…
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Tagore English-Chinese Bilingual Poetry Collection: Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2010 "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves"—this line, quoted by countless people, comes from Stray Birds. It has endured…
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The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2006 The Black Tulip is a novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas, originally published in 1850 and set in the Netherlands during the bourgeois revoluti…
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Rating 4.0
The Little Prince 安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2013 The Little Prince is a philosophical fairy tale written in 1942 by the French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, first published in New York…
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Rating 4.2
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence Yilin Press · 2021 In post-World War I England, twenty-three-year-old Constance (Connie) marries the aristocrat Clifford Chatterley. Before the honeymoon is over, Cliffo…
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Rating 4.5
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy People's Literature Publishing House · 1979 Resurrection is a novel Leo Tolstoy wrote in his later years. Begun in 1889, it took ten years and six drafts and was completed in 1899, summing up hi…
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The Amazing Spider-Man, Issue 91 Stan Lee / Gil Kane / John Romita Marvel Comics · 1970 This volume is issue 91 of the 1963 series The Amazing Spider-Man, published in 1970, with the story title 'To Smash the Spider!' The story directly f…
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Gone with the Wind (Bilingual English-Chinese Edition) Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2014 Gone with the Wind is the only novel by the American writer Margaret Mitchell. Published in 1936, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and has been prais…
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Dead Serfs Nikolai Gogol Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012 Dead Serfs, also translated as Dead Souls, is a representative work by the Russian writer Gogol, first published in 1842. Set in early 19th-century Ru…
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Rating 4.3
Childhood · In the World · My Universities Maxim Gorky People's Literature Publishing House · 2015 Gorky's autobiographical trilogy in a single volume, collecting the three novellas Childhood, In the World and My Universities, translated respectivel…
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Rating 4.3
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2018 The novel is based on a real murder: in 1951, a friend of García Márquez was killed in a small town in front of the assembled villagers. After nearly …
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Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë People's Literature Publishing House · 1990 Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847 under the pen name "Currer Bell," and is strongly autobiographical. Nar…
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Rating 4.3
Flying Felt 西西 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2016 Flying Felt is a representative novel by the Hong Kong writer Xi Xi, first published in 1996 and winner of the third World Chinese Literature Award (2…
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Rating 4.3
The Thorn Birds 考琳·麦卡洛 Yilin Press · 1998 If any book can make "loving in vain" both heartbreaking and convincing, it is probably The Thorn Birds. McCullough does not reduce Meggie and Ralph t…
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Three Great Classics of French Literature: Xu Yuanchong Centenary Commemorative Edition Stendhal / Gustave Flaubert / Romain Rolland Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This is a boxed collector's set released in April 2021 by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · KEY-Can Culture in collaboration with Caolu C…
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Two Poets Honoré de Balzac Two Poets (1837) is the first volume of Balzac's Lost Illusions trilogy and an important part of La Comédie humaine. The story is set in provincial Fr…
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Pride and Prejudice (New Annotated Edition) Jane Austen Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2018 Pride and Prejudice is the representative work of the British author Jane Austen. The first draft was completed in 1797 under the title First Impressi…