Mortality Questioning

8 books

To the Last Days of Life: Reflections on the Creation of Sunflower at Dusk cover
Rating 2.8
To the Last Days of Life: Reflections on the Creation of Sunflower at Dusk 李旭 Communication University of China Press · 2026 This is a book about a film that explores life and death. Taking his debut feature Late Sunflowers as the starting point, director Li Xu opens a profo…
100 Lines of Poetry and Prose on Fate cover
Rating 2.8
100 Lines of Poetry and Prose on Fate 鲤趋 · 2026 Fate is the deepest and most helpless undercurrent in Chinese aesthetics. In these more than one hundred selected poems and prose pieces, we read a mo…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translation Classics) cover
Rating 4.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translation Classics) Leo Tolstoy / 赵桂莲 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Tolstoy's most important short story from his late years. Through a meticulous, unsparing depiction of the entire process …
Dice Game cover
Rating 3.9
Dice Game 陈希米 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Between irresistible fate and self-choice, is there an insurmountable boundary? This book is a new essay collection by Chen Ximi, Shi Tiesheng's wife,…
The Madman and Death cover
Rating 3.4
The Madman and Death Pascoais, Teixeira de, 1877-1952 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 …
The Altar of the Dead cover
Rating 4.0
The Altar of the Dead James, Henry, 1843-1916 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 …
The Temple of Earth and Me (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
The Temple of Earth and Me (Illustrated Edition) Shi Tiesheng Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A master of contemporary literature, Shi Tiesheng writes essays of plain honesty that hold profound life philosophy and have been hailed as the finest…
Letting Go and Attachment (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
Letting Go and Attachment (Illustrated Edition) Shi Tiesheng Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This collection of essays draws on such classic works by Shi Tiesheng as "Asking the Way with Wheels," "The Question of Love," "Letting Go and Holding…