Irony

55 books

On the Concept of Irony: With Socrates as the Pivot cover
Rating 4.5
On the Concept of Irony: With Socrates as the Pivot 克尔凯郭尔 China Social Sciences Press · 2005 This book is the dissertation of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), generally regarded as the most important work of his pre-pseudo…
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen cover
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Rudolf Erich Raspe / Gottfried August Bürger Writers Publishing House · 2018 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (German original: Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns) is one of the most influent…
A Whisper to the Reader cover
A Whisper to the Reader Frank R. Stockton A Whisper to the Reader is a short essay-like piece of about two thousand words by the late nineteenth-century American writer and humorist Frank R. S…
Middle Age Made Ridiculous cover
Rating 3.6
Middle Age Made Ridiculous Jason Hazely / Joel Morris CITIC Press · 2017 Middle Age Made Ridiculous is a grown-up spinoff of the century-old British children's brand Ladybird. The Chinese edition, a boxed set of ten 56-page…
Vision Vol. 10 cover
Vision Vol. 10 Tom King / Gabriel Hernández Walta This volume is issue #10 of the 12-issue limited series Vision (2015), written by Tom King and drawn by Gabriel Hernández Walta, originally titled "Al…
The Swindler Who Invaded Show Business cover
The Swindler Who Invaded Show Business O Chengfo O · 2016 "The Swindler Who Invaded Showbiz" is an urban-themed novel by the web author o Chengfo o. Serialized on Qidian Chinese Network, Xiaoxiang Academy, an…
Angels on the Head of a Pin cover
Rating 4.3
Angels on the Head of a Pin Yuri Druzhnikov Yilin Press · 2010 Angels on the Head of a Pin is a novel by the Russian émigré writer Yuri Druzhnikov, written between 1969 and 1976. The story begins with Makartsev, e…
E=mc², or the Story of an Idea cover
E=mc², or the Story of an Idea Pierre Boulle E=mc², or The Story of an Idea is a novella-length science fiction work by the French author Pierre Boulle (1912–1994). The Chinese translation, rende…
A Little Dinner at Timmins's cover
A Little Dinner at Timmins's 威廉·梅克匹斯·萨克雷 A Little Dinner at Timmins's is a short satirical novella by the English writer William Makepeace Thackeray, set in 19th-century London. The story rev…
Fierce Animals (2015 Edition) cover
Fierce Animals (2015 Edition) Wang Shuo Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2015 Animal Instinct is a collection of novellas by Wang Shuo, part of the "Selected Works of Wang Shuo" series published in hardcover by Beijing October A…
Work: The Right Way to Waste Your Life cover
Work: The Right Way to Waste Your Life Qiu Huadong / Sun Liping / Yan Geling CITIC Press · 2014 Work: The Right Way to Waste Your Life is a short thematic anthology published by CITIC Press in December 2014, attributed to writers and scholars inc…
My Daoist Brother Is Causing Trouble Again cover
My Daoist Brother Is Causing Trouble Again Wangu Diyixue Qidian My Daoist Brother Is Causing Trouble Again is a xuanhuan novel serialized on Qidian by Wangu Diyi Xue, running over 26 million characters and nearly 9…
A Moment of Creation cover
Rating 4.0
A Moment of Creation Niu Jianzhe Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 A Moment of Creation is a short story collection by the Shenyang writer Niu Jianzhe, published in April 2025 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing…
A Miscellany of Men cover
A Miscellany of Men G. K. Chesterton Methuen & Co. / Dodd, Mead and Company · 1912 A Miscellany of Men is a collection of essays by the English writer and critic G. K. Chesterton, published in 1912. The first edition was printed in L…
Main Street cover
Rating 3.9
Main Street 辛克莱·刘易斯 People's Literature Publishing House · 2022 Main Street is the breakthrough novel of Sinclair Lewis, the first American winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, published in 1920. Set in a small…
Forty Rooms cover
Rating 4.2
Forty Rooms 奥尔加·格鲁辛 Flower City Publishing House · 2025 Forty Rooms is a novel by the Russian-American author Olga Grushin, published in English under the title Forty Rooms in the United States in 2016. Its…
Wang Xiaobo's Tang Dynasty Series (Seeking the Unparalleled, Wan Shou Temple, The Night Flight of Hongfu, 3 volumes) cover
Wang Xiaobo's Tang Dynasty Series (Seeking the Unparalleled, Wan Shou Temple, The Night Flight of Hongfu, 3 volumes) Wang Xiaobo Wang Xiaobo's Tang Dynasty Series is a collection of three novels set in the Tang dynasty, including Wan Shou Temple, The Night Flight of Hongfu, and …
Murder Most Extreme: The Anguish of a Mystery Writer cover
Rating 4.1
Murder Most Extreme: The Anguish of a Mystery Writer Keigo Higashino Nanhai Publication Company · 2011 This is a short story collection by Keigo Higashino, containing eight independent stories in a consistent style of dark humor. The book does not rely …
When All Things Stop Growing cover
When All Things Stop Growing 赵志明 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 When All Things Stop Growing is the second short-story collection by the Jiangsu writer Zhao Zhiming, published in 2015 by Shanghai Literature and Art…
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Love and Freindship Jane Austen Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Love and Freindship (commonly titled in English as Love and Freindship, with "Friendship" deliberately misspelled by the teenage Austen) is an epistol…