Poetic Beauty

39 books

You Are the Brocade Zither, I Am the Fleeting Years: Sanmao's Journey Across Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains cover
You Are the Brocade Zither, I Am the Fleeting Years: Sanmao's Journey Across Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains 白落梅 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 This is a literary biography of Sanmao by the bestselling author Bai Luomei. In her customary clear, delicate, and poetic prose, the book follows the …
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Morning and Dusk 呼葱觅蒜 / 白落梅 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 Morning and Dusk is an ancient-style illustrated book featuring artwork by the highly popular illustrator Hucong Misuan and accompanying text by bests…
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes cover
Rating 4.3
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 尼尔·盖曼 / Sam Keys Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016 The Sandman is the breakout work of British author Neil Gaiman, serialized under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. Since its debut in 1988, it has been rega…
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Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery People's Literature Publishing House · 2021 Anne of Green Gables is a novel by the Canadian author L. M. Montgomery, published in 1908 and her most celebrated work, set on Prince Edward Island, …
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Rating 4.0
A Traveler: The Travel Writings of Paul Bowles Paul Bowles Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025 A Traveler is a collection of travel essays by the American writer, translator, and composer Paul Bowles, written between 1950 and 1993, and a complet…
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Anatomy of a Rose Sharman Apt Russell Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017 This is a popular science book about flowers; the original English title is Anatomy of a Rose, and the Chinese subtitle is "A Natural History of a Flo…
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Xinmin Shuo · Sea Short Verse Collection Jiang Yitan Guangxi Normal University Press · 2018 The Sea Short Verse Collection is edited by the poet and novelist Jiang Yitan and published by Guangxi Normal University Press under its "Xinmin Shuo"…
The Moon-Worshipping Fox: Xue Mo's Love Poems or Dao Songs cover
The Moon-Worshipping Fox: Xue Mo's Love Poems or Dao Songs Xue Mo Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2015 The Moon-Worshipping Fox: Xue Mo's Love Poems or Dao Songs is the writer Xue Mo's first publicly published poetry collection, issued by Central Compil…
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Rating 4.2
Failures in Business Wu Xiaobo Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2010 Big Defeat is the signature corporate case study by financial writer Wu Xiaobo. First published in 2001 and subsequently revised and reprinted many ti…
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Rating 4.2
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2013 The Martian Chronicles, the work that made Ray Bradbury famous, was published in 1950. Composed of more than twenty interlinked stories, it is structu…
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Rating 3.4
Just Now Liu An Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 Just Now is the first novel by the writer Liu An, published in July 2020 by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House and produced by Dook C…
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Rating 3.8
Yellow Birds Kevin Powers People's Literature Publishing House · 2018 Yellow Birds is the debut novel of American writer Kevin Powers, drawn from his own experiences on the battlefield in Iraq. Set against the backdrop o…
The Green-Haired Water Monster cover
Rating 4.5
The Green-Haired Water Monster Wang Xiaobo Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2018 The Green-Haired Water Monster is Wang Xiaobo’s earliest collection of short stories and the starting point of his fiction. The novella of the same na…
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood 阿利斯泰尔·麦克劳德 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a 1976 short story collection by the Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod, containing seven stories, all set on Cape Breton…
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Rating 4.1
Lolita: The Screenplay Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2010 Lolita: The Screenplay is Nabokov's only film script, written at the invitation of director Stanley Kubrick as an adaptation of his own controversial …
Through the Lens: The Beauty of Plants cover
Rating 2.3
Through the Lens: The Beauty of Plants 《图说天下·透过镜头系列》编委会 Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2010 The Beauty of Plants is a plant-themed photography album in the Through the Lens series of Illustrated World. The book runs about 191 pages in 16K ful…
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Rating 4.0
Feathered Serpent and the Heart of the Sky: Mexican Mythology David Bowles CITIC Press · 2025 Feathered Serpent and the Heart of the Sky: Mexican Mythology is a collection that systematically organizes Mexican myths and legends. The author, Dav…
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Rating 3.6
High-Speed Rail Han Song Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 High-Speed Rail is the middle installment of Chinese science fiction writer Han Song's "Rail Trilogy" (Subway, High-Speed Rail, Rail), republished in …
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Rating 3.9
All Souls' Day Cees Nooteboom Yilin Press · 2025 Arthur, a Dutch documentary filmmaker, loses his wife and child in a plane crash; thereafter he has no fixed home and treats his lodgings in various p…
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Klingsor's Last Summer Hermann Hesse Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2019 Klingsor's Last Summer is an autobiographical novella by the German writer Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature, written in 191…