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His Own People
· 1907
His Own People is a novella by the American writer Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), published in October 1907; it was the eighth book and fourth novella …
The Death of Death, Part 3
DC Comics
When people think of zombie comics, most imagine survivors fighting to stay alive; Romero's work asks the reverse: if the person who became a zombie s…
Flatland
Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020
A slim little book, yet at once a science fiction novel, a mathematical fairy tale, and a social allegory. The most captivating thing about Flatland i…
Howard the Duck MAX 01
This volume is the first of Marvel's MAX series Howard the Duck, collecting issue #1 of the six-issue limited series, "Making the Band." The story is …
Tea-Table Talk
Hutchinson & Co.; Dodd, Mead and Company · 1903
Tea-Table Talk is a collection of conversational essays published in 1903 by the English humorist Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927). Best known for Three M…
Phyllis: Phyllis of Philistia
· 1895
Phyllis of Philistia is a novel by the Irish writer Frank Frankfort Moore (1855–1931), published in 1895 and one of his best-known works. Set in late …
The Middle Class Gentleman (Chinese title: The Would-Be Gentleman / The Bourgeois Gentleman)
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2008
Want to get to know Molière but not ready to dive into a hefty collected works? Start with The Middle Class Gentleman. It is a mature comédie-ballet f…
Eighty-One Dreams / Five Sons Pass the Exam
People's Literature Publishing House · 2019
This volume collects two social satires by Zhang Henshui, Eighty-One Dreams and Five Sons Pass the Exam. Both are chapter-novel style (zhanghui) works…
Our Mutual Friend
Flower City Publishing House · 2014
Our Mutual Friend is the last novel by the English writer Charles Dickens, first serialized in 1864–1865. The story opens with a corpse on the Thames:…
Toe Tags: The Death of Death, Part 6
DC Comics
Toe Tags: The Death of Death is a six-issue limited series released by DC Comics in 2004, from George A. Romero, director of the "Living Dead" trilogy…
Flowers in the Mirror (Classic Chinese Novels)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2013
Flowers in the Mirror is a long fantasy chapter novel by the Qing dynasty novelist Li Ruzhen, in one hundred chapters, probably completed during the J…
Crome Yellow
· 1921
Crome Yellow is the debut novel of the British writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1921 by Chatto & Windus in London, and it was with this book that Hu…
The Poisonous Laughs
Nanhai Publication Company · 2010
The Poisonous Laughs is a short-story collection by Keigo Higashino, first written in 1996. Like The Rules of a Great Detective, written around the sa…
Fanny and the Servant Problem
Fanny and the Servant Problem is a four-act comedy by the English humorist Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927, author of Three Men in a Boat), self-described…
George Cruikshank
Princeton University Press · 1992
Cruikshank is the kind of artist readers easily “see” but cannot name: open an illustrated nineteenth-century English novel and you are likely to meet…
Bel-Ami
People's Literature Publishing House · 2016
Bel-Ami (also translated as The Handsome Friend; French original Bel-Ami) is Maupassant's second novel, written in 1885, and his most celebrated full-…
The Absentee
· 1812
The Absentee is a novel published in 1812 by the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), originally included in the second series of her Tales…
Major Barbara
China Translation & Publishing Corporation · 1999
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Parody Novel
Nanhai Publication Company · 2011
Parody Novel is the first installment in Keigo Higashino's "Laughing Novel" series, originally published in Japanese in 1995 and translated into Chine…
The Warden
Longman · 1855
The Warden (often rendered in Chinese as The Almshouse Warden or The Barchester Almshouse) is the first novel by the Victorian English novelist Anthon…