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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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The Ruling Passion Henry van Dyke Charles Scribner's Sons · 1901 The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature is a short-story collection by the American author, Presbyterian minister and Princeton Universit…
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Rating 4.2
A Petersburg Love Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 A Petersburg Love is Goncharov's debut novel. Begun in 1844 and published in 1847 in The Contemporary under its original title An Ordinary Story (Обык…
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How Song Jiang Became the Boss: The Corporate Climb of a Hero 韩立勇 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2011 Drawing on Song Jiang's experiences in Water Margin, this book re-examines from a modern workplace perspective how an unremarkable figure—unimpressive…
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Rating 1.8
My Lady's Money Wilkie Collins · 1877 My Lady's Money is a novella of suspense by the English writer Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), first published around 1877. Collins is known for The Woman…
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God-Level Hunter Xiao Yuke God-level Hunter is a science fiction gaming web novel by Xiao Yuke, serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network and completed in March 2018, totaling appr…
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Lovers of the Dragon Palace Liu Wangbin / Zhang De / Pu Songling People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2007 Long Gong Qinglü is one of the representative works of the celebrated lianhuanhua artist Liu Wangbin from the 1950s. Drawn from "Late Blossom" in Stra…
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Dream Shadows of the Mortal World: The Illustrated Dream of the Red Chamber Sun Wen / 王典弋 Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2019 Dream Shadows of the Mortal World: The Illustrated Dream of the Red Chamber is an illustrated color edition based on the complete Dream of the Red Cha…
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Twenty Years After (Two Volumes) Alexandre Dumas Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 1989 Twenty Years After is a historical novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas, published in 1845. It is the sequel to The Three Musketeers and, togeth…
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Legend of the Fantasy Water Margin Darkness of Profundity Legend of the Fantasy Water Margin is a long Western-fantasy web novel by Shenyuan Zhi'an, serialized on Zongheng Chinese from September 2012 and comp…
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Rating 2.0
The History 希罗多德 University of Chicago Press · 1988 The History (Greek original title Ἱστορίαι, Latin transliteration Historiai, meaning "inquiry") was written in the Ionic dialect by the ancient Greek …
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Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (A Record of Dreams of the Eastern Capital) 孟元老 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (The Dreams of Splendor of the Eastern Capital) is a biji-style work in ten juan by Meng Yuanlao, a man of the Southern Song, rec…
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The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters Wen Kang People's Literature Publishing House · 2014 The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters (Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan), also known as The Tale of the Golden and Jade Destiny (Jinyu Yuan) and The Storyteller's…
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The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio Dante Alighieri People's Literature Publishing House · 1997 Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, which together with Inferno and Paradiso forms the Comedy's trilogy. Led by the Roman poet Vir…
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The Romance of Antar Aysumayi Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2009 The Romance of Antar is a long Arabic folk romance combining prose and verse, a household name in the Arab world and even more widely circulated than …
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New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2007 New Arabian Nights is the first collection of fiction by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1882 and gathering works he had publ…
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Rating 4.0
Mansfield Park Jane Austen Yilin Press · 2017 Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's third published novel, following Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. First published in May 1814 and writte…
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The Precipice Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Precipice is the third novel by the nineteenth-century Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, following A Common Story (also translated as A Petersburg Lo…
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Renwu Zhi 刘劭 / Liu Bing Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 Renwu Zhi (A Treatise on Human Qualities) is a classic by Liu Shao of the Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period, offering a systematic discussion…
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Classics of Chinese Elegant Culture Lu Yu / Yuan Mei / 计成 / 文震亨 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 Classics of Chinese Elegant Culture is a series of traditional elegant-culture readers issued over time by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishi…