Egoism

14 books

What Is the Good Life?—An Ethical Answer cover
What Is the Good Life?—An Ethical Answer Gordon Graham China Renmin University Press · 2025 What exactly is the "good life"? Hedonism says the good life is one in which you get what you desire; utilitarianism says it is one in which you succe…
Atlas Shrugged (Hardcover Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
Atlas Shrugged (Hardcover Illustrated Edition) Ayn Rand Chongqing Publishing House · 2020 Atlas Shrugged is the major novel by the Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. The English original was published by Random House in 1957;…
Rashomon (Dook Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.6
Rashomon (Dook Classics Library) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / Lu Xun / 文洁若 / 文学朴 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The human nature you can hardly ever see clearly finally reveals its full face in Rashomon! This collection selects 18 short stories by Ryūnosuke Akut…
Rashomon: A Collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Classic Masterpieces (Illustrated Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.7
Rashomon: A Collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Classic Masterpieces (Illustrated Collector's Edition) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 高慧勤 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This illustrated collector's edition of Rashomon: Selected Classic Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa gathers 24 of the most enduring short stories and no…
Capital and Ethics: The Critique of the "Egoism" Narrative in Capital cover
Rating 3.8
Capital and Ethics: The Critique of the "Egoism" Narrative in Capital 曾俊 Heilongjiang University Press · 2025 This book takes Capital as its textual basis and offers a systematic examination of the relationship between capitalism and egoism. It critiques the "…
Rashomon cover
Rating 4.6
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 竺家荣 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 A selected short-story collection by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, a giant of Japanese literature—Japan's highest prize for pure literature is named after him!…
Rashomon cover
Rating 4.4
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 焦海利 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 This collection includes such fictional works as "Rashomon," "The Nose," "Yam Gruel," "Tobacco and the Devil," "The Fire God Mask," and "The Spider's …
Li Si: The Rise and Fall of an Extreme Egoist cover
Rating 3.5
Li Si: The Rise and Fall of an Extreme Egoist 苏城育 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Li Si lived his whole life by the mouse philosophy. On one hand, he was eager for fame and fortune, assisting Qin Shi Huang in completing the unificat…
Rashomon cover
Rating 4.5
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2019 Beyond the Rashomon gate, deep in the bamboo grove; they take by force, self-righteously; they weave lies for their own desires. Cloaked in the garb o…
Rashomon (Zhangyue Classics) cover
Rating 4.7
Rashomon (Zhangyue Classics) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2019 Rashomon tells the story of a dismissed servant and an old woman who is also a robber, both facing a life-or-death choice, and of how “evil overcoming…
Famous Works, Famous Translations: The Nose cover
Rating 4.1
Famous Works, Famous Translations: The Nose Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / Lu Xun · 2025 A short story from Akutagawa's early period, first published in the February 1916 relaunch issue of Shinshichō. In the story, the attitude of onlooker…
Kokoro (Japanese-Chinese Bilingual. Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
Kokoro (Japanese-Chinese Bilingual. Audio Edition) 杜勤 East China University of Science and Technology Press · 2025 Kokoro is a work by Natsume Soseki, a giant of modern Japanese literature and a critical realist writer, and it still ranks among the ten books Japane…
Rashomon cover
Rating 4.3
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 朱娅姣 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2018 This collection brings together fifteen stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, including "Rashōmon," "In a Grove," "Hell Screen," and "The Nose." "Rashōmon" …
The Poppy cover
Rating 3.8
The Poppy 陆求实 / Natsume Sōseki Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2017 In the early 20th century, Japan had just emerged from the Meiji Restoration. The worship of capitalist culture had made the slogan of 'intellectual l…