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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…
Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Their Fathers
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This book is a collection of literary criticism by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, originating from a lecture he was invited to give in 2017 at Emory Un…
The Book of Burned Books
CITIC Press · 2017
On May 10, 1933, the Nazis launched a nationwide book burning in Berlin under the banner of "opposing the un-German spirit." Tens of thousands of book…
The Master
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021
The Master is a novel by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, whose protagonist is the American author Henry James—that literary giant known for his psycholo…
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 3 (1887–1891)
· 1911
This is Volume 3 of the four-volume Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, covering letters written between 1887 and 1891 and edited by the author's close…
Wei Erqiao Western Art Series Picture Books 05: The Voice of a Cry
CITIC Press · 2009
The Voice of a Cry is the fifth volume in the Wei Erqiao Western Art Series Picture Books, with text by Wang Yubei and illustrations by Wei Erqiao. Th…
Letters, Volume 4 (1895–1916)
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press · 1984
The Letters of Henry James is a four-volume selection of letters edited by the biographer and critic Leon Edel and published by the Belknap Press of H…
Balzac: A Biography
People's Literature Publishing House · 2019
Balzac: A Biography is a life of the writer on which the Austrian author Stefan Zweig worked for more than a decade. The Chinese translation is by Zha…
The Conscience of Russia: A Biography of Solzhenitsyn
New Star Press · 2016
This book is a biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel laureate in literature and Russian dissident writer, by the French Slavist Georges Nivat. Ni…
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
Harper & Brothers · 1916
This is a young readers' biography of Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910), first published in September 1916 by Harper & Brothers of…
Borges and Me: An Encounter
Yilin Press · 2022
Scotland, 1971. Twenty-two-year-old Jay Parini is a doctoral student in literature at the University of St Andrews, troubled by his dissertation, his …
Cheng Zenghou on Victor Hugo
Peking University Press · 2008
Cheng Zenghou on Victor Hugo is a lecture-based volume on Victor Hugo written by Cheng Zenghou, a scholar and translator of French literature, for the…
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5
University of California Press · 1997
This volume is the fifth volume of Mark Twain's Letters, edited by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley. It contains 309 l…
Dear Dad
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
What is it like to have a hardcore father who savors every pleasure life has to offer from beginning to end, switching seamlessly between boxer, bullf…
Biography of García Márquez
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024
This is a biography of Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned writer and Nobel laureate in Literature. In this book, Stephen Hart takes Márquez's litera…
A Biography of Yasunari Kawabata: A Man with Two Faces
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022
Kawabata Yasunari: A Man of Two Faces is a biography of the Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari by the Japanese scholar Ono Kotaro. Kawabata Yasunari has…
Th. M. Dostoevsky: A Biographical Study
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Thomas Hardy's Dorset
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …