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Everyone's Bookshelf · Translation Library Series cover
Everyone's Bookshelf · Translation Library Series Beijing Publishing House Beijing Publishing House · 2017 "Master’s Little Books · Translation Library" is the foreign culture segment of the humanities classics series "Master’s Little Books" published by Be…
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Rating 4.0
Zen Is a Flower Hu Lancheng China Chang'an Publishing House · 2013 Zen Is a Flower is Hu Lancheng's reading of the Zen classic The Blue Cliff Record, also known by the subtitle New Words on the Blue Cliff Record. Writ…
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Poetry and Prose 生活·读书·新知三联书店 SDX Joint Publishing Company Poetry and Prose is a literary volume in the New Knowledge Library E-book Collection. Following the collection's editorial format, it brings together …
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National Geographic (U.S. Edition), October 2010, Vol. 218, No. 4 National Geographic Society National Geographic Society · 2010 This is the October 2010 issue of National Geographic (U.S. edition), Vol. 218, No. 4. The cover story, "The Spill," focuses on the April 2010 explosi…
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Rating 3.5
When I Am Different from the World Ma Xujun CITIC Press · 2015 When I'm Different from the World is the first essay collection by Ma Xujun, an English trainer and talk-show host. In his early years he taught IELTS…
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Sing Loudly When Walking Alone at Night Li Juan New Star Press · 2024 Sing Loudly When Walking Alone at Night is a private collection of personal essays by Li Juan, gathering thirty-six pieces written between her mid-twe…
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Weaving Thoughts into Brocade: Essays on Poetics and Style 江弱水 Peking University Press · 2010 Weaving Thoughts into Brocade: Essays on Poetics and Style is a collection of Jiang Ruoshui's essays on poetics and criticism, published by Peking Uni…
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Faulkner: Essays, Speeches and Public Letters William Faulkner Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2008 Faulkner: Essays, Speeches and Public Letters is a collection of William Faulkner's nonfiction. The original English edition, Essays, Speeches and Pub…
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Random Thoughts Sanmao Harbin Publishing House · 2003 Random Thoughts is a collection of short prose pieces by Sanmao, first published in March 1985 by Crown Publishing in Taipei as no. 1106 of the Crown …
Readers 2025 Issue 8 cover
Rating 2.3
Readers 2025 Issue 8 Readers Magazine Editorial Office Readers Magazine · 2025 Readers 2025 Issue 8 (published in April) continues the longstanding editorial approach of this veteran digest magazine: short, rewarding pieces with …
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Towards the Light 刘同 CITIC Press · 2016 Towards the Light is the third installment in young writer Liu Tong's "Who's Youth Is Not Confused" series, centered on the theme of "light" and publi…
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Different Times, Different Ways Yi Shu Oriental Press · 2014 Different Times, Different Ways is a collection of essays by Yi Shu, published by Oriental Press in 2014. Together with her earlier collections As One…
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Rating 4.5
Selected Works of Ah Cheng A Cheng Beijing Yanshan Press · 2015 Selected Works of Ah Cheng is a volume of selected works by a major author in the "Century Literature: 60 Writers" series, edited by the scholar He Sh…
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Rating 4.2
The Commentaries of Pius II Piccolomini Zhejiang University Press · 2016 The Commentaries (Commentarii) is an autobiography written or dictated by Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405–1464, pope 1458–1464), and …
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Rating 4.0
Lost Pearls of the Elegant Studio Liang Shiqiu Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2015 Lost Pearls of the Elegant Studio is a collection of scattered and previously uncollected essays by Liang Shiqiu. Over his lifetime, Liang wrote exten…
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100 Kinds of Thinking: The Source of Power 布莱兹·帕斯卡尔 China Water & Power Press · 2020 This book is an anthology of classic texts by the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), compiled and translated …
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Rating 3.3
Two Versions of a Love Story Jasmina Mihajlović / 米洛拉德·帕维奇 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 Two Versions of a Love Story is a collection co-written by the Serbian author Jasmina Mihajlović and her husband, the literary master Milorad Pavić. T…
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Don't Panic—When the Sun Goes Down, the Moonlight Comes Shi Tiesheng / Ji Xianlin / Xiao Fuxing / Liang Shiqiu / Wang Zengqi / Liu Xinwu / Feng Zikai China Friendship Publishing Company · 2025 Don't Panic—When the Sun Goes Down, the Moonlight Comes is an anthology of essays by leading modern and contemporary literary figures, headed by Shi T…
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Rating 1.6
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Charles Dickens / Wilkie Collins The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a novella-length travelogue written collaboratively by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins in 1857. It was fir…
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Collected Works of Chen Zhongshi (Volumes 1–10) Chen Zhongshi People's Literature Publishing House · 2016 The Collected Works of Chen Zhongshi (Volumes 1–10) gathers almost all the writing Chen Zhongshi produced between 1978 and 2012, arranged chronologica…