Masterpieces

25 books

My Memories of Old Beijing (Illustrated Edition) cover
My Memories of Old Beijing (Illustrated Edition) Lin Haiyin / Guan Weixing Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2011 This is a novel that can only be described as "clean": no exaggerated dramatic conflict, no preaching, only the quiet, curious gaze of a child. Lin Ha…
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Rating 4.0
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 安布罗斯·比尔斯 Fudan University Press · 2014 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is Ambrose Bierce's most famous short story—short and sharp, regarded as a classic of the American short story. Set …
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Dickens Collection, Volume 3: Hard Times Charles Dickens Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2014 Hard Times is a novel by Dickens published in 1854 and the third volume in the Dickens Collection of the World Classics Translated Library, translated…
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Rating 2.1
Swan Song Robert McCammon Nautilus Culture · 2019 Swan Song is a novel by the American writer Robert R. McCammon, published in 1987 and regarded as a classic of post-apocalyptic fiction, often discuss…
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Ringworld 拉里·尼文 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2017 Ringworld is the most celebrated novel in American author Larry Niven's Known Space series. Published in 1970, it went on to win the Hugo Award, the N…
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How the Steel Was Tempered 尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基 People's Literature Publishing House · 1995 How the Steel Was Tempered is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, based on his own experiences. The Chinese title is…
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Rating 4.3
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution Paul Watzlawick / John Wickland / Richard Fish Educational Science Publishing House · 2007 Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution is a classic work coauthored by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, and Richard Fisch, thre…
The Good Soldier Švejk (Famous Works, Famous Translations Series) cover
Rating 4.3
The Good Soldier Švejk (Famous Works, Famous Translations Series) 雅.哈谢克 People's Literature Publishing House · 2018 The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished novel and magnum opus by the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), and a classic of twentieth-century satir…
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Rating 4.2
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life Henry Cloud / John Townsend Haitian Publishing House · 2021 Why is it so hard to say no? Why do we agree to help, to work overtime, to show up—even when we are already exhausted? Why does setting a boundary mak…
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Rating 4.7
Top of the Wave (Fourth Edition, Two Volumes) Wu Jun Posts & Telecom Press · 2019 Top of the Wave is Dr. Wu Jun's classic account of the rise and fall of the global information industry over the past century. Its central idea is tha…
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The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Arthur William Russell The Commercial Press · 2010 The Analysis of Mind is a work by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, published in 1921, and a classic of early analytic philosophy. The book gr…
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell CITIC Press · 2018 The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is the only novel by the Irish-English working-class writer Robert Tressell (born Robert Noonan, 1870–1911). Writ…
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Rating 4.3
Lectures on Shanghan Lun by Li Yangbo 李阳波 / 李坚 / 黄涛 / Hu Cunhui China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine · 2010 This book is an edited transcript of lectures on Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) by Li Yangbo (1945–1991), a leading modern Chinese medicine cl…
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The Little Prince 安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2013 The Little Prince is a novella-length fairy tale by the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, first published in New York in 1943. The n…
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Captain Tsubasa Vol. 21 Yōichi Takahashi Tong Li Publishing Captain Tsubasa (Japanese original title Kyaputen Tsubasa, also translated as Team Captain Tsubasa) is a soccer-themed boys' manga by Yoichi Takahashi…
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A History of Warfare 约翰·基根 CITIC Press · 2018 A History of Warfare is the magnum opus of the British military historian John Keegan and is regarded as a classic that places war back within the con…
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Rating 4.3
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013 The Caves of Steel is the first novel in Asimov's Robot series to feature Earth detective Elijah Baley, and a classic blend of science fiction and det…
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Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman CITIC Press · 2015 This book was published in 1985 and is about television, yet reading it in the age of smartphones is all the more sobering: Postman was never concerne…
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Rating 4.6
Teahouse Lao She People's Literature Publishing House · 2018 Teahouse is a three-act play written by Lao She in 1956 and published in the inaugural issue of Harvest in 1957. It is widely recognized as a classic …
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Riders of the Purple Sage 赞恩·格雷 People's Literature Publishing House · 2023 Riders of the Purple Sage is the representative work of American author Zane Grey, first published in 1912 and widely regarded as the classic that est…