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Scarlet Spider Vol. 14
This is Volume 14 of the Scarlet Spider series, corresponding to issue #14 of the second Scarlet Spider volume launched in 2012 and the second chapter…
National Geographic, August 1986 (Vol. 170, No. 2)
National Geographic Society · 1986
This is the August 1986 issue of National Geographic (U.S. edition), Volume 170, Number 2, anchored by a special feature on the westward expansion of …
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life
CITIC Press · 2025
This book collects recent essays by the contemporary philosopher Thomas Nagel. Its core consists of a series of book reviews and intellectual commenta…
Floating Lanterns on the Stream
Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House · 2009
Floating Lanterns on the Stream is a collection of short stories by Jinse, published in 2009, containing ten stories drawn from classical Chinese lege…
The Festival of Insignificance
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014
The Festival of Insignificance is a short novel Milan Kundera published after a long silence in his fiction writing; the original French edition, La f…
Spring Comes by Carriage
Modern Press · 2021
“New Sensationalism” is a highly distinctive current in modern Japanese literature, and Yokomitsu Riichi and Kawabata Yasunari are known as its "twin …
Tales of Hulan River
People's Literature Publishing House · 2018
Tales of Hulan River is Xiao Hong's representative work. Completed in Hong Kong in 1940 and first published by Shanghai Magazine Company in 1941, the …
Paranormal Investigation Notes
Tan Ling Bi Lu, originally titled Fa Yi de Si Wang Bi Lu: Tan Ling Bi Lu, is a long supernatural suspense novel by the web author Jun Bujian, followin…
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is Kormáks saga, one of the Icelandic sagas. Among the Sagas of Icelanders it was composed relatively early and…
Sleeping Beauty
Nanhai Publication Company · 2014
This book is a collection of representative late works by Yasunari Kawabata, comprising the two novellas Sleeping Beauty and The Dancing Girl. Sleepin…
Hearse
The Hearse is a long-form suspense and supernatural novel by the web author Tangqian Yan. Serialization began on a web fiction platform in 2015 and co…
Hellblazer: City of Demons Vol. 1
Hellblazer: City of Demons is a five-issue standalone miniseries published by DC's mature-readers imprint Vertigo from October 2010 to February 2011, …
Vagabond Vol. 2
Cosmos Books Ltd. · 1999
Vagabond is a long-running seinen manga by Takehiko Inoue, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. Serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Morning since …
The Embroidered Uniform Guard
Writers Publishing House · 2010
The Embroidered Uniform Guard is a historical novel by the journalist and writer Zhang Jianwei, published by Writers Publishing House in 2010. The Emb…
Norwegian Wood
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018
Norwegian Wood is Haruki Murakami's fifth novel, published in 1987, and the most realistic and accessible of his works, hailed as a "one-hundred-perce…
The Kidult Years: A Story of Running Away to Find Love
深圳报业集团出版社 · 2009
The subtitle of The Kidult Years is "A Story of Running Away to Find Love." The term kidult refers to young people who have reached adulthood but stil…
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Respiration
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Respiration are short treatises from the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's Parva Naturalia. Modern edi…
The Story of Bridges
CITIC Press · 2016
The Story of Bridges is a collection of cultural essays by the Japanese writer Nakano Kyoko, built around four themes—the strange, the startling, the …
You Shine in the Moonlit Night
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
Since his sister's death, Takuya Okada has lived in a daze, unable to muster any interest in life. One cherry-blossom day after entering high school, …
Hell's Spokesman
This is a typical "urban supernatural plus long serialization" web novel, solidly sized at 644 chapters and 2.15 million characters, suited to readers…