Late Life

24 books

Reveries of a Solitary Walker cover
Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press · 2024 Reveries of a Solitary Walker is a collection of prose pieces written by the French Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the final stage of …
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Rating 4.5
The Sound of the Mountain Kawabata Yasunari / 无问 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 Is it the wind, the waves, or a ringing in his ears? Yet he truly hears the voice of the mountain... The Sound of the Mountain is Kawabata Yasunari's …
Eventide cover
Rating 2.3
Eventide Afton, Effie, 1829-1887 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 3.8
The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 15) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 After Mr. Liu Zheng retired from the People's Education Press in 1990, he moved from one nursing home to another on the outskirts of Beijing for great…
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Poem Scroll of the Pine Wind Pavilion · Poem Scroll of Hanshanzi and Layman Pang cover
Rating 4.2
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Poem Scroll of the Pine Wind Pavilion · Poem Scroll of Hanshanzi and Layman Pang 人民美术出版社 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 The content of "Poem on Pine Wind Pavilion" and "Poems by Hanshanzi and Layman Pang" consists of seven-character poems composed by Huang Tingjian hims…
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Rating 2.6
Fleeting Glimpses 朱大卫 China International Culture Press Limited · 2025 Already in the dusk of life, why ask for storm and rain besides? Thinking back, decades of things and people can be condensed into a shallow cup of te…
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Rating 4.5
The Dreams of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 李平沤 The Commercial Press · 2024 In French biographical literature, Rousseau left three works that have endured: the Confessions, the Dialogues, and Reveries of a Solitary Walker—thre…
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Rating 3.8
Evening Gaze Su Shi · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious th…
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Rating 4.0
A Sky Full of Rosy Clouds Wang Meng Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A collection of fiction by Wang Meng, comprising two recent works, Rosy Clouds Fill the Sky and Life and Death Love. The novella Rosy Clouds Fill the …
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Rating 4.3
Silent Classics: The Moon Before Dawn W. S. 默温 / 柳向阳 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 When Merwin wrote the poetry collection Garden Time (2016), he was nearly ninety and gradually going blind, unable to write by hand, so he dictated th…
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Rating 4.3
The Sound of the Mountain Kawabata Yasunari / 魏大海 · 2023 A family tale of undercurrents, of hidden and unspoken dark desire. The echoing mountain sound is the delusion and fear of old age. Sixty-two-year-old…
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Rating 4.2
Mu Xin's Posthumous Manuscripts Mu Xin Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2023 Mu Xin said, 'On the day I became famous, I watched helplessly as I was buried.' Before returning from America to his hometown of Wuzhen in his later…
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Rating 3.9
Miscellaneous Poems from Tiger Bridge Zhou Zuoren · 2022 Old Tiger Bridge Miscellaneous Poems mainly collects some of the author's poems written between 1946 and 1949 while he was in Nanjing's Old Tiger Brid…
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Rating 4.7
Collected Works of Wang Anshi Wang Anshi / 刘成国 · 2022 A selected collection of Wang Anshi's poems and ci.
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Rating 4.6
The Decay of the Angel Yukio Mishima / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2021 One of the classics of Japanese literature in the series of master authors, masterworks, and master translations, translated with great dedication by …
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Rating 4.6
A Strange Tale of the East Bank Nagai Kafū Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 In his later years, the writer Ōe Tadashi, seeking escape from the noise at home and a taste of old-world charm, often roams at night the back alleys …
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Rating 4.2
Casual Composition Sent to Langzhi Bai Juyi Nanhai Publication Company · 2024 "Occasional Verses Sent to Langzhi" is a five-character poem by the Tang dynasty poet Bai Juyi.
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Rating 2.5
The Twilight Years Drussai, Kirk, 1919-1991 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 4.5
A Boring Story: From the Notes of an Old Man Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 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 3.2
Later Poems Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 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…