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The Cherry Orchard
The Commercial Press · 2016
The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's final play, written in 1903 and first performed in 1904. Along with The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters, it is …
The Bridges of Madison County
Yilin Press · 2020
The Bridges of Madison County is a novella by the American writer Robert James Waller. It tells of a love hidden for half a lifetime and read again on…
Snow Country
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2023
Snow Country is the first novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata and a representative work of his aestheticism. It was published in serialized s…
Classic Stories by Wang Zengqi
People's Literature Publishing House · 2005
This selection of short stories by Wang Zengqi, published by People's Literature Publishing House in August 2005, draws twenty-eight representative wo…
A Brief Study of Northern Song Ci Poetics
Beijing Publishing House · 2016
A Brief Study of Northern Song Ci Poetics is one of the representative works on ci poetics by the modern scholar and poet Yu Biyun (1868–1950). It was…
Short Sentences, My Dear
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
"Short sentences, my dear"—this was a piece of advice a mother gave her daughter when the girl was small and learning to write essays: keep sentences …
The Collected Poems of Ma Yan
New Star Press · 2012
The Collected Poems of Ma Yan is a posthumously published selection of poems by the poet Ma Yan (1979–2010), gathered and edited by the poet Leng Shua…
Border Town
Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2018
Border Town is a novella written by Shen Congwen in the 1930s and a classic of modern Chinese regional literature. Set in the 1930s in Chadong, a smal…
The Complete Classic Essays of Zhu Ziqing
Wuhan Publishing House · 2010
Zhu Ziqing (1898–1948) was one of the founders of modern Chinese prose and is regarded as a model of "baihua belles-lettres." Taking as its framework …
The Complete Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
New World Press · 2012
World literature has many classic fairy tales, but Andersen's hold a distinctive weight. The stories he wrote for children often absorb young readers …
An Afternoon Full of Goldfinches: Selected Poems of Zeng Siyi
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2016
An Afternoon Full of Goldfinches: Selected Poems of Zeng Siyi is a selection of poems by the scholar, poet, and translator Zeng Siyi, published by Gua…
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
· 1861
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series is a poetry collection by the Victorian poet Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), published in 1861 by Bell and Daldy …
Jane Eyre
Yilin Press · 2010
Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847. Told in the first person, it follows the orphan Jane Eyre from childho…
The Sky Is Empty—Why Does It Comfort Me
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2013
This is a poetic biography centered on the life of the poet Hai Zi. In prose, the author Suiyuan Sanren begins with Hai Zi's childhood in an Anhui vil…
The Land of Little Rain
China International Broadcasting Publishing House · 2009
The Land of Little Rain is the signature work of American author Mary Austin, first published in 1903 and composed of fourteen lyrical essays that res…
New Collected Rhymes
Longmans, Green and Co. · 1905
New Collected Rhymes is a short poetry collection by the Scottish man of letters Andrew Lang (1844–1912), published in London by Longmans, Green and C…
The Lily of the Valley
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015
The Lily of the Valley (Le Lys dans la vallée, 1836) is one of the most lyrical of Balzac's novels and belongs to the "Scenes of Country Life" in La C…
50: Great Chinese Essays
Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025
50: Great Chinese Essays, edited by Guomai, collects 50 essays by 46 Chinese writers, arranged in order of publication date and extending from the ear…
Because We Understand, We Are Merciful: Eileen Chang's Alluring Past
China Overseas Publishing House · 2012
Because We Understand, We Are Merciful: Eileen Chang's Alluring Past is a biographical portrait of Eileen Chang written in prose by the author Bai Luo…
Spring's Woodland
Shandong Publishing House of Literature and Art · 2014
Spring's Woodland is a selection of Xu Dishan's essays in the Famous Essayists Series published by Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House in 201…