Author Essays

11 books

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My Last Words to You Keigo Higashino New Star Press · 2013 My Last Words to You (Japanese title: Tabun Saigo no Goaisatsu) is an autobiographical essay collection by Keigo Higashino, translated by Pan Lu and p…
Insight and Inspiration: Carol Shields on Writing cover
Insight and Inspiration: Carol Shields on Writing Carol Shields People's Literature Publishing House · 2021 This book gathers Canadian writer Carol Shields's reflections on the craft of writing. On Mother's Day 2013, her daughter Anne Giardini, also a writer…
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 4 cover
Rating 4.0
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 4 Ling Jiefang / 周百义 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Collected Works of February River is the most comprehensive collection of February River's writings outside the "Sunset Trilogy." The publication …
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 1 cover
Rating 4.2
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 1 Ling Jiefang / 周百义 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Collected Works of February River is a comprehensive gathering of February River's writings beyond the "Sunset Trilogy." The publication of this f…
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 3 cover
Rating 4.0
Collected Works of Eryuehe: Volume 3 Ling Jiefang / 周百义 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Collected Works of February River is the most comprehensive collection of February River's writings outside the "Sunset Trilogy." The publication …
A Book List: Novels and Novelists (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics) cover
Rating 3.8
A Book List: Novels and Novelists (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics) 秦巴子 · 2026 This book is a selection of more than a hundred essays on contemporary foreign novels and novelists from the well-known blog column "Qin Bazi's Recent…
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Rating 4.1
Collected Works of Chen Zhongshi's Life Series Chen Zhongshi Chongqing Publishing House · 2021 The Chen Zhongshi Life Series Collection (Walking the Human World + Sharing the Years + A Landscape of One's Own): Chen Zhongshi's personal experience…
A Reader of Essays cover
Rating 4.2
A Reader of Essays Jun'ichirō Tanizaki / 赖明珠 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 A master of Japanese aestheticism, Junichiro Tanizaki explores the art of reading and writing in this classic work—three accessible lessons in writing…
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Rating 3.8
From a Cornish Window Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944 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 …
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Rating 3.5
My Sorrowful Youth Junichi Watanabe / 祝子平 Qingdao Publishing House · 2022 Looking back on my youth, there was love, there was affection, but also no small amount of worry, hesitation, and confusion. I wrote this book to sum …
Collected Essays (Volume 16) cover
Rating 3.9
Collected Essays (Volume 16) Lao She · 2017 This collection brings together a number of Lao She's essays, including "How to Write Popular Literature and Art," "On Language in Literary Creation,"…