Social Critique

40 books

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Dead Serfs Nikolai Gogol Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012 Dead Serfs, also translated as Dead Souls, is a representative work by the Russian writer Gogol, first published in 1842. Set in early 19th-century Ru…
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Rating 3.1
The Dickens Collection (06): Christmas Stories Charles Dickens Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2014 Christmas Stories is Volume 6 of the Dickens Collection in the World Classics Translation Library, gathering the five novellas Dickens published aroun…
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Rating 3.6
The Complete Fables of Krylov Ivan Andreyevich Krylov People's Literature Publishing House · 2019 This book is the complete fables of the Russian fabulist Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (1769–1844), translated from Russian by the translator Gu Yu. It cont…
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Martin Eden (FLTRP Bilingual Library · Famous Authors, Famous Translations) Jack London Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2010 Martin Eden is a semi-autobiographical novel by American author Jack London, written in 1909 and regarded as one of the most intellectually mature and…
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Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 Father Goriot (French: Le Père Goriot) is a novel by Balzac published in 1835 and later included in the "Scenes of Private Life" of The Human Comedy; …
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Rating 4.8
The Complete Short Stories of Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov People's Literature Publishing House · 2016 The ten-volume Complete Short Stories of Chekhov was translated single-handedly by the translator Ru Long and published by People's Literature Publish…
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Rating 4.5
Illusions Lost Honoré de Balzac People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 Illusions Lost is one of Balzac's representative novels, placed in the "Scenes of Provincial Life" of La Comédie Humaine. The author took nearly eight…
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Rating 3.5
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014 An American Tragedy is a novel by Theodore Dreiser published in 1925. It draws on the real 1906 case of Chester Gillette, who drowned his girlfriend G…
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Rating 4.0
The Balzac Collection in 16 Volumes Honoré de Balzac · 2017 This collection gathers the sixteen volumes of Balzac's novels translated by Fu Lei over his lifetime, presenting the most famous works of La Comédie …
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Resurrection Leo Tolstoy People's Literature Publishing House · 1979 Resurrection (Воскресение) is the last novel Tolstoy wrote in his later years (1889–1899, a decade of work and six drafts), based on a real case suppl…
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Rating 4.2
David Copperfield Charles Dickens People's Literature Publishing House · 2003 This is Mr. Zhuang Yichuan's translation, and one of the most widely circulated Chinese versions and most often recommended to general readers. Zhuang…
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Rating 4.5
Selected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2018 Selected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant collects twenty-three of the most representative short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant (185…
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The Chameleon: Selected Short Stories of Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Yilin Press · 2019 This book is a selection of short stories by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, translated by Feng Jia and published by Yilin Press in its Classics of …
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Rating 4.3
The Ungrateful Wolf Yong Ren Wuhan Publishing House · 2010 The Ungrateful Wolf is a novel by the Beijing writer Yong Ren (real name Liu Jun), published by Wuhan Publishing House in 2010. The protagonist, Hengb…
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Rating 4.5
Colonel Chabert: Selected Novellas and Short Stories by Balzac Honoré de Balzac Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 This volume is one of the Balzac volumes in the World Classics Translated Library, collecting seven representative novellas and short stories by Balza…
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Le Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 Le Père Goriot is one of the most celebrated novels in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. The story centers on a shabby Parisian boarding house, the Maison …
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The Underdog’s Counterattack Xiaoqi Fujian People's Publishing House · 2014 The Underdog’s Counterattack
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Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 Père Goriot is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, serialized from the winter of 1834 to early 1835 and published as a book in 1835. It belongs to the "Scene…
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Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2006 Oliver Twist is a representative work of Dickens's early period and his first novel to take the life of the urban lower classes as its subject. The no…
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Boule de Suif Guy de Maupassant Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2011 Boule de Suif is a short story collection by the French writer Guy de Maupassant, translated by Hao Yun and Wang Zhensun and published by Shanghai Tra…