Classical Vernacular

38 books

A Library of China's Ten Sole-Extant Novels cover
Rating 3.3
A Library of China's Ten Sole-Extant Novels 吉吴娥川主人 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Rare editions carry high value for textual scholarship, reading, research and collecting. Drawing on this, The Library of China's Ten Rarest Novels, c…
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Rating 3.0
Chronicles of the Flower Kingdom 云间花也怜侬 · 2025 This book was written to admonish and warn. Its descriptions are so vivid that the characters seem to appear before one's eyes and their voices to rin…
Collection of Classical Urban Romance and Legendary Tales (4-Volume Set) cover
Rating 3.2
Collection of Classical Urban Romance and Legendary Tales (4-Volume Set) 吴敬 / 天然痴叟 / 名教中人 / 一笑主人 · 2026 This four-volume collection brings together four classic Ming dynasty novels of urban manners and tales of love and chivalry. Every line portrays the …
Words to Awaken the World (A Story Collection Banned and Destroyed Many Times) cover
Rating 4.1
Words to Awaken the World (A Story Collection Banned and Destroyed Many Times) Li Yu · 2024 This book is a collection of chapter-form vernacular short stories by Li Yu, a writer and dramatist of the late Ming and early Qing, also known as Twe…
Wu Jiangxue (An Old Edition Romance Novel) cover
Rating 3.3
Wu Jiangxue (An Old Edition Romance Novel) 佩蘅子 · 2024 Wu Jiangxue (Classical Scholar-Beauty Romance)
The Tale of Two Heroes (A Classic Popular Novel) cover
Rating 3.4
The Tale of Two Heroes (A Classic Popular Novel) 步月主人 · 2024 A classic vernacular novel of the Qing dynasty, Twin Flowers is also known as The Jade Hairpin and The Joint Lives of Fang and Zheng. Completed in the…
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (4) cover
Rating 4.6
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (4) Feng Menglong · 2024 Jingshi Tongyan (Stories to Warn the World) is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty. The work w…
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (7) cover
Rating 4.3
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (7) Feng Menglong · 2024 Jingshi Tongyan (Stories to Warn the World) is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty. The work w…
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (6) cover
Rating 4.3
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (6) Feng Menglong · 2024 Jingshi Tongyan (Stories to Caution the World) is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty. The wor…
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (5) cover
Rating 4.6
Vernacular Short Story Collection: Stories to Caution the World (5) Feng Menglong · 2024 Jingshi Tongyan (Stories to Warn the World) is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty. The work w…
The Constant Lover (Part One) cover
Rating 3.0
The Constant Lover (Part One) 荻岸山人 · 2024 This book tells the love story of Shuang Xing, a son of an official family, and Jiang Ruizhu of Shaoxing Prefecture in Zhejiang. Shuang Xing is determ…
The Constant Lover (Part Two) cover
Rating 3.0
The Constant Lover (Part Two) 荻岸山人 · 2024 This book tells the love story of Shuang Xing, a scion of an official family, and Jiang Ruizhu of Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang. Determined to find th…
Warning Novel: Romance of Figures of the Seventy-Two Dynasties 1 cover
Rating 3.5
Warning Novel: Romance of Figures of the Seventy-Two Dynasties 1 Anonymous · 2024 Also known as *Romances of the Personages of the Four Books in the Seventy-Two States*, this work comprises forty chapters. "Seventy-two states" does …
Selected Chinese Classical Novels (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.0
Selected Chinese Classical Novels (3 Volumes) 翁桂 / 薛渔思 / 海上独啸子 / 石成金 · 2024 This collection brings together two novels, The Moon Terrace and Records of Hedong. The Moon Terrace runs to twelve chapters and opens with a myth bef…
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (II) cover
Rating 2.6
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (II) Anonymous · 2024 The second volume of The Combined Chronicles of Xia and Shang, also known as The Unofficial History of Xia and Shang, is a historical romance novel of…
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (I) cover
Rating 2.6
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (I) Anonymous · 2024 The Combined Chronicles of Xia and Shang, also known as The Unofficial History of Xia and Shang, is a historical romance novel of the Ming and Qing dy…
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (III) cover
Rating 2.6
Combined Traditions of the Xia and Shang (III) Anonymous · 2024 The Combined Chronicles of Xia and Shang, also known as The Unofficial History of Xia and Shang, is a historical romance novel of the Ming and Qing dy…
Ming-Qing Classical Novel: Tale of the Joined Brocade Palindrome (1) cover
Rating 3.2
Ming-Qing Classical Novel: Tale of the Joined Brocade Palindrome (1) 笠翁先生 · 2024 This is a scholar-and-beauty novel. The Huiwen Xuanji Tu, woven by Su Ruolan, was once a palace treasure beloved of Empress Wu and later passed into p…
The Tale of Ying Yun Meng (3) cover
Rating 2.8
The Tale of Ying Yun Meng (3) 松云氏 · 2024 While mourning at home, Wang Yun suddenly recalls Mengyun's silk handkerchief and searches for it everywhere, but cannot find it, which greatly frustr…
The Tale of Ying Yun Meng (1) cover
Rating 2.8
The Tale of Ying Yun Meng (1) 松云氏 · 2024 During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, in Suzhou Prefecture south of the Yangtze, there lived a country gentleman named Wang Li, who held the off…