Reading Essays

15 books

Reading Is a Portable Sanctuary cover
Rating 4.4
Reading Is a Portable Sanctuary W. Somerset Maugham / 夏高娃 Jiangxi People's Publishing House · 2021 Readers may first associate Maugham's style with his biting wit, humor, irreverence, even acerbity, but they overlook the sincerity and candor beneath…
The Common Reader cover
Rating 4.2
The Common Reader Virginia Woolf / 瞿世镜 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 Virginia Woolf was not only a consummate novelist but also a critic with an unerring eye. This volume gathers her finest literary criticism, drawing o…
Writers Among Writers (Poetic Thinker · Reading the Classics) cover
Rating 3.9
Writers Among Writers (Poetic Thinker · Reading the Classics) Qiu Huadong · 2021 In this book, the renowned writer and poet Qiu Huadong selects thirteen modern literary masters—Proust, Kafka, Borges, Babel, Camus, Günter Grass, Fau…
What Do You Read? cover
Rating 2.5
What Do You Read? Ellanby, Boyd 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 Book Decameron cover
Rating 3.4
The Book Decameron Kasimir Edschmid 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 …
Comfort Found in Good Old Books cover
Rating 3.3
Comfort Found in Good Old Books George Hamlin Fitch 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 …
Books and Culture cover
Rating 3.2
Books and Culture Hamilton Wright Mabie 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 …
Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 cover
Rating 3.3
Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Various 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 Library cover
Rating 3.3
The Library Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 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 …
A Plea for Old Cap Collier cover
Rating 3.1
A Plea for Old Cap Collier Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944 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 …
Orpheus Looks Back cover
Rating 4.0
Orpheus Looks Back 宋琳 Peking University Press · 2025 This book collects the poet's important essays on poetry and interviews from recent years, chiefly on poetics questions in modern and contemporary Chi…
Hu Zhufeng's Works: The Book of Snowy Days cover
Rating 3.7
Hu Zhufeng's Works: The Book of Snowy Days 胡竹峰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This book weaves reading as its warp and traditional Chinese culture as its weft. It discusses literature and art, and also literature and the Way. It…
Hu Zhufeng's Works: The Spirit of Bamboo Slips cover
Rating 3.7
Hu Zhufeng's Works: The Spirit of Bamboo Slips 胡竹峰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A selection of short essays from Hu Zhufeng's decade of writing notes. Echoing the spirit of bamboo slips prized by the ancients—carving each characte…
The Complete Collection of Reader's Finest Works cover
Rating 3.8
The Complete Collection of Reader's Finest Works 查一路 Harbin Publishing House · 2017 As readers, we all have certain reading needs and reading abilities; we are both readers and consumers. We often become readers of a publishing house …
One Book, One World (New Oriental Dayu English Learning Series) cover
Rating 3.8
One Book, One World (New Oriental Dayu English Learning Series) 陈榕 · 2015 This book is a collection of articles from the Famous Works and Famous People column of New Oriental English magazine, featuring introductions and app…