Theme of Time

20 books

The Years cover
The Years Virginia Woolf CITIC Press · 2018 The Years is the last complete novel Virginia Woolf published in her lifetime. It appeared in 1937 and was her best-selling book during her life. The …
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Rating 3.0
The Sixth Return to the Garden 席地 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection gathers nearly one hundred poems written by Xidi in recent years, arranged in nine sections. Their themes range across life, existence…
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Rating 4.0
Time Is the Postscript to Everything 方岩 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 “Literature is a peculiarly personal kind of concrete labor; the convergence of countless concrete labors cannot match the moment when the unknown hap…
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Rating 3.0
Time Commemorates Itself 陆文伟 Jinan University Press · 2025 This is the first poetry collection by Zhongshan poet Lu Wenwei. Divided into three sections—“Gazing at Time,” “Above the Sky,” and “Time Commemorates…
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Rating 3.5
[Disney] English Original: Alice in Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass The Walt Disney Company East China University of Science and Technology Press · 2024 This book is the official novelization of the Disney film Alice Through the Looking Glass. Officially licensed and unabridged, it faithfully follows t…
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Rating 3.0
The Room Where the Matches Disappeared 凯林 China Radio Film & TV Press · 2024 In poetic form, this book portrays the people and events around the author and records the moments of everyday life. Through these varied figures and …
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Rating 3.0
The Code of Time 洪瑜沁 East China Normal University Press · 2024 Time Code features two principal thematic strands. The first is an intellectual lyricism rooted in nostalgia: its writing draws on long years of resid…
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Rating 4.7
Swann's Way 普鲁斯特 / 沈志明 · 2024 In Search of Lost Time is a landmark work and one of the most important novels of twentieth-century literature. With fresh, supple prose and a latent …
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Rating 3.9
The Sorrow of Time: Selected Works of Zhang Zongzi 张宗子 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022 This book is a self-selected collection of Zhang Zongzi's prose from thirty years, including more than fifty pieces such as "The Black Bird's Wings," …
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Rating 4.2
All Bridges Are Lonely 英格博格·巴赫曼 / 李双志 People's Literature Publishing House · 2022 Arranged chronologically, All the Bridges Are Lonely gathers poems from every period of the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann's career, including "Poems…
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Rating 3.4
The Wind Came to Nothing at the Cliff 黄锐 New Star Press · 2023 Wind Falls Empty at the Cliff is the second poetry collection published by young poet Huang Rui, a dialogue between the poet and uncontrollable time a…
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Rating 3.9
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel 奈须蘑菇 / 郑翠婷 People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 Kokutō Mikiya meets a girl with the power of future sight, Seo Shizune; Ryougi Shiki encounters a serial bomber who also possesses future sight, Kurak…
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Rating 5.0
Swann's Way Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 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 4.0
Farewell to Summer Ray Bradbury / 由美 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 Farewell Summer is the last novel published in his lifetime by Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and master of science fiction—a wondrous tale of…
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Rating 3.9
Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2021 The Sonnets, known in Chinese as 《莎士比亚十四行诗》, is a celebrated group of poems written by William Shakespeare between 1592 and 1603. Comprising 154 sonne…
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Rating 4.0
The Gift of Time 弗雷德里克·巴克曼 / 孙璐 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2023 Everything in this world has a price—except time. A second is a second; no one can bargain over it. So I was always away on business, giving every min…
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Rating 4.4
Unknown University: Main Poetry Collection Roberto Bolaño / Fan Ye / 杨玲 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2018 Readers deeply immersed in Bolaño's life's work will readily find echoes of his earlier books in The Unknown University. For those familiar with Bolañ…
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Rating 4.2
The Gold of the Tigers Jorge Luis Borges / 林之木 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017 A representative collection of Borges's poetry, written in the 1970s, comprising forty-seven poems and widely regarded as his most famous. The poet ch…
The Complete Poems of Shakespeare: Sonnets (Aurora Poetry Series · Classic Translation Series) cover
Rating 4.2
The Complete Poems of Shakespeare: Sonnets (Aurora Poetry Series · Classic Translation Series) William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2016 The Sonnets is Shakespeare's most important collection of poems. Since the late eighteenth century, Shakespeare's sonnets have aroused great interest …
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Rating 4.0
Transparent Things Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov / 陈安全 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2015 The novel revolves around the protagonist Hugh Person and his four visits to Switzerland. It opens with an account of his fourth return to Switzerland…