Famous Essays

41 books

Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories) cover
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories) 李敬泽 / Zheng Yuanjie CITIC Press · 2013 Shanxi Laoxi'er is one title in the Chinese Stories series, a brand of narrative nonfiction e-books launched by CITIC Press in 2013, and is jointly wr…
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 32 Michel de Montaigne / Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve / Ernest Renan / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / 弗里德里希·席勒 / Immanuel Kant / Giuseppe Mazzini / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2014 This is Volume 32 of the Chinese edition of The Harvard Classics (also known as the "Five-Foot Shelf"), subtitled "Essays by Masters of Literature and…
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Selected Essays by Chinese and Foreign Masters Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Selected Essays by Chinese and Foreign Masters is an essay series launched by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House in June 2016 (some titles…
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On Self-Cultivation (National Reading Classics · Paperback) Zhu Guangqian Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 On Self-Cultivation is a collection of essays on personal cultivation that Zhu Guangqian, an aesthetician, literary theorist, and educator, wrote for …
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This Is the Best Chinese Language Book: Essays Volume Ye Kai Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014 The third volume of the series This Is the Best Chinese Language Book, edited by Ye Kai and published by Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House i…
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Elegant Notes and Pure Lyrics in Flowing Rhyme Ni Xuejun Xiamen University Press · 2015 Elegant Notes and Pure Lyrics in Flowing Rhyme is an anthology of Republican-era prose and short essays published by Xiamen University Press in July 2…
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Harvard Classics Volume 32: Essays by Masters of Literature and Philosophy Michel de Montaigne / Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve / Ernest Renan / 莱辛 / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller / Immanuel Kant / Giuseppe Mazzini / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2014 This book is the Chinese translation of Volume 32 of the fifty-volume "Harvard Classics" (also known as the "Five-Foot Shelf"), a major series edited …
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Dajia Xiaoshu: History Set Li Dazhao / Gu Jiegang / Lü Simian / Jian Bozan / Bai Shouyi Beijing Publishing House · 2016 Dajia Xiaoshu (“Great Scholars' Little Books”) is a popular series that Beijing Publishing House has maintained since the 1990s, taking its name from …
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Rating 4.4
Selected Essays and Cartoons of Feng Zikai Feng Zikai Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 "Selected Essays and Cartoons of Feng Zikai" is a subtitle commonly used for collections of Feng Zikai's essays and cartoons. Multiple editions exist …
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Harvard Classics Volume 24: English and American Essays 威廉·梅克匹斯·萨克雷 / John Henry Newman / 马修·阿诺德 / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2014 This is the Chinese edition of Volume 24 of the Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelves, published by Beijing Institute of Technology Press, devoted to ess…
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Rating 2.5
Masters Through the Eyes of Masters Bertrand Arthur William Russell / André Maurois Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2012 This book is a collection of biographical profiles in which great writers turn their gaze upon other great figures. Penned by the British philosopher …
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Dajia Xiaoshu: History Collection (15 Volumes) Lü Simian / Gu Jiegang / Li Dazhao / Tsiang Ting-fu (T.F. Tsiang) / Qu Lindong / Zheng Zhenduo Beijing Publishing House · 2019 Dajia Xiaoshu ("Great Masters, Small Books") is a popular humanities and social-science series that Beijing Publishing House has maintained since 2002…
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Rating 4.1
Life Is a Brief Sojourn: Savoring a Refined Life with Liang Shiqiu Liang Shiqiu Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2016 Life Is a Brief Sojourn: Savoring a Refined Life with Liang Shiqiu is a selected collection of Liang Shiqiu's essays. The editor has gathered nearly s…
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Rating 4.0
Life Threw a Punch at Me, But I Played Paper Feng Zikai New World Press · 2026 This is a collection of humorous and delightful essays by modern and contemporary masters. In these pages, a generation of great writers eat, look, an…
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Rating 3.4
The Age of Awakening (Complete Twelve Volumes) 枯藤老树 · 2025 The Awakening Era boxed set comprises 12 volumes: two on literature, two on history, and one each on poetry, Buddhism, Chinese classics, mythology, Ch…
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Rating 3.9
Reading, Reading Chen Pingyuan Hunan People's Publishing House · 2023 Reading, Reading is a collection on the shared refined pursuits of book lovers—reading, buying books, and collecting books—edited by Chen Pingyuan and…
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Rating 4.5
Prose Collection by Famous Masters (4 Volumes) Ji Xianlin / Lao She Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Converse with the masters and savor the many flavors of life. These essays touch on every facet of the masters' lives and are a microcosm of their lif…
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Rating 4.2
The Flowers Have Not Slept Kawabata Yasunari / 陈德文 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023 The beauty of Japan has swept the world, and Kawabata Yasunari played an indispensable role. He made beauty his “faith,” expanding the territory of ae…
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Rating 4.2
Informal Talks on Composition (2021 Edition) Zhang Zhongxing Kaiming Press · 2021 On Essay Writing is a book about how to write by Mr. Zhang Zhongxing, a veteran who spent more than half a century working with the Chinese language a…
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Rating 2.0
Listen to the Sound of Flowers Blooming 吴文智 Dolphin Books · 2021 This collection features over forty of the world's most representative essays, all by celebrated authors. Their elegant language and profound meaning …