Passage of Time

71 books

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Three Childhood Friends Yi Shu Cosmos Books · 1995 Three Childhood Friends is a short-story collection by Hong Kong author Yi Shu, published in 1995 by Hong Kong's Tiandi Books as No. 171 in the Tiandi…
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Rating 3.2
The Floral Dress Yi Shu Cosmos Books · 2001 The Floral Dress is a collection of short stories by Yi Shu, comprising six works: "The Floral Dress," "Marriage," "The Failed Don Juan," "The Sparrin…
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Rating 4.2
Silent Classics: High Windows 菲利普·拉金 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016 High Windows is a poetry collection by the British poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985), translated into Chinese by Shu Dandan and published in Shanghai Peo…
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Rating 4.1
The Swan Ray Bradbury / Qiu Chunhui / 阿古 / 汪杨达 · 2026 A curious scoop of lime-vanilla ice cream, an unlikely friendship unfolding on a bench. Summer is drawing to a close. For one fleeting moment, he glim…
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Rating 3.8
Minor Poems of Michael Drayton Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.9
Cultivation at Any Time 2: When You Are Old 叶芝 / 椰林 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2018 Most things we use to kill time—clinking glasses, singing along to songs, even lying down playing mobile games—leave us with a heavy head, tight chest…
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Rating 2.8
Time Grows Up Too 高新东 · 2026 This is a collection of essays in four parts. Part One: Love Has Long Since Become Formless; Part Two: Life Is a Kind of Carving; Part Three: When the…
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Rating 3.5
At the Time, I Only Thought It Was Ordinary 王帅 Writers Publishing House · 2026 These are all things that happened over the past fifty years, and more will keep happening. There are many happy things, and no shortage of unhappy on…
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Rating 3.8
Mu Shiying's Famous Works: The Second Love Mu Shiying · 2025 The Second Love tells the story of the protagonist "I" returning to Hong Kong after seven years. At its core, the novella portrays loss—lost youth, by…
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Rating 3.8
Words of Lake and Mountain 吴沛 · 2025 This poetry collection is divided into three parts—"Passing," "Autumn River," and "Lake and Mountain"—with over 130 poems in total. Wu Pei's writing i…
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Rating 2.6
Pure Joy and a Light Smile: Selected Works 史水汉 Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Qinghuan Qianxiao: Selected Poems is the third poetry collection published by Shi Shuihan, a volume that is both literary and thoughtful. It gathers c…
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Rating 2.3
Poems of Fleeting Years Like Flowing Water 天涯剑客 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025 Through the eyes of two generations of the Gu family, this book recounts nearly half a century of rural transformation, with particular attention to t…
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Rating 3.3
Spiritual Capacity 张国辰 / 雷武铃 Guangxi People's Publishing House · 2025 This poetry collection features 49 poems selected from Zhang Guochen's recent work. Most of the selected pieces take specific places as their point of…
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Rating 3.6
In Praise of Love: 2 William Shakespeare · 2024 This book is a literary gem consisting mainly of Shakespeare's works. It is the English original edition. The works collected in the book cover divers…
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Rating 3.6
The Praise of Love: 1 (English Edition) William Shakespeare · 2024 This collection of literary gems centers largely on Shakespeare's works and is presented in the original English. The pieces gathered here vary in the…
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Rating 4.6
Pearls and Jade Ci Poems 晏殊 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 China's traditional culture has a long intellectual lineage, marked by remarkable originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Its early thought f…
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Rating 3.8
Three Poems on Spring at Xunyang: Spring Departs Bai Juyi · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history, distinguished by its originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early intellectual forms are hi…
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Rating 4.0
In Haste Zhu Ziqing Tiantian Publishing House · 2024 Zhu Ziqing's prose evolved from the elegant and evocative to the plain and rich, and later to the radical and profound—each phase bearing the clear im…
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Rating 3.3
Like a Song 敷米浆 Post Wave Publishing · 2024 Perhaps some would rather not speak; perhaps some will leave first. Perhaps someone will sing with me to the very end, and then we say goodbye. Please…
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Rating 2.7
Autumn Longing, Winter Turmoil 王伟 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is a personal collection. The author has gathered dozens of modern poems, classical-style poems, and prose pieces written between 2000 and 2010. …