Classical Prose

50 books

The Dragonfly Diary cover
Rating 4.3
The Dragonfly Diary 藤原道纲母 / 楚永娟 · 2022 The Kagerō Diary is divided into three volumes—upper, middle, and lower—spanning half a lifetime of Michitsuna's mother; written in different periods,…
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Rating 3.3
Essays on the Greek Romances Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton, 1872-1964 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 …
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan cover
Rating 4.2
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- 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 Finest of Classical Chinese Prose cover
Rating 4.9
The Finest of Classical Chinese Prose Wu Chucai / Wu Diaohou / 余红芬 / 苗怀明 · 2025 Gems of Classical Chinese Prose is an anthology of ancient prose compiled by the uncle and nephew Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou during the Kangxi reign of …
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Rating 4.5
The Best of Classical Chinese Prose (Illustrated Edition) Wu Chucai / Wu Diaohou / 郭学敏 China Textile & Apparel Press · 2024 An Illustrated Guide to The Ultimate Anthology of Classical Chinese Prose is one volume in the Reading the Classics Today series. The Ultimate Antholo…
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Rating 3.5
Collected Works of Xunyi 程本立 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early thought forms are distinctive: religious theology…
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Rating 2.8
Tangzhou Mountain Anonymous Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features, and s…
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Rating 3.1
Collection of the Old Farmer of Tongshan 鲁贞 · 2024 Chinese traditional culture has a long and profound intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. …
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Rating 3.8
Culture and Letters (Volume 10) Guo Yingde / 张德建 The Commercial Press · 2024 Siyuan (Volume 10) is a special journal on classical Chinese prose founded by the Institute of Ancient Literature, School of Chinese Language and Lite…
Love Is Never Calm: Collected Letters of Madame de Sévigné cover
Rating 4.3
Love Is Never Calm: Collected Letters of Madame de Sévigné 塞维涅夫人 / 王斯秧 The Commercial Press · 2023 In the history of seventeenth-century French literature there are two dazzling women writers: Madame de La Fayette and Madame de Sévigné. Her letters …
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Rating 3.8
Siwen (Vol. 9) Guo Yingde / 张德建 The Commercial Press · 2023 Siyuan (Volume 9) is a special journal on classical Chinese prose founded by the Institute of Ancient Literature and the Research Center for Classical…
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Rating 4.3
Three Books on Traditional Aesthetics Shen Fu / Yuan Mei / Li Yu Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Six Records of a Floating Life: Love as Shen Fu Loved; Six Records of a Floating Life is the crowning work of autobiographical note-form writing in cl…
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Rating 4.3
Wen Jie of the Six Dynasties: Translation and Annotation 许梿 / 曹明纲 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Liu Chao Wen Jie is a celebrated anthology of parallel prose (pianwen) from the Six Dynasties period. The title Wen Jie derives from Liu Xie's dictum …
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Rating 4.0
Selected Prose of Tao Yuanming (Premium Public Domain Edition) 陶渊明 Zhangyue Banli · 2020 Tao Yuanming's place and influence in literary history owe no less to his prose and rhapsodies than to his poetry. In particular, "The Biography of Mr…
The Ultimate Collection of Ancient Prose (Volume 3) cover
Rating 4.4
The Ultimate Collection of Ancient Prose (Volume 3) Wu Diaohou / 吴乘权 Liaohai Publishing House · 2025 The prose pieces selected in this book are mainly prose, with some rhymed and parallel prose included. From the pre-Qin period, the largest number are…
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Rating 2.2
Distinguishing Things Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 The term bianwu means to distinguish the kinds of things and to discern their circumstances; it comes from the "Tongren" chapter of the Yi (Book of Ch…
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Rating 2.7
The Four Classes of the People Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Legend has it that a scholar once entered a government treasury and did not recognize the money. Someone, surprised, asked him about it, and the schol…
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Rating 2.6
Miscellaneous Sayings Anonymous The Commercial Press · 2024 The worthy man and the noble gentleman understand the seasons of prosperity and decline, comprehend the causes of success and failure, examine the pri…
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Rating 4.2
The Civil Strategy Anonymous Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Wentao is an ancient prose essay taken from Qunshu Zhiyao (The Governance of All Books).
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Rating 3.4
Record of Watching Wrestling at Jiuniuba (Qing) Peng Shiwang 彭士望 Tibet People's Publishing House · 2020 "A Record of Watching Di Performance at Jiuniu Dam" is a prose piece from the Qing Dynasty.