Metaphor

34 books

You Go into the Wilderness cover
Rating 4.5
You Go into the Wilderness 赵松 CITIC Press · 2024 You Go into the Wilderness is a short-story collection by the writer Zhao Song, published after Fushun Stories and The Building-Block Book, containing…
Killing Commendatore cover
Rating 3.8
Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 This novel, Haruki Murakami's first in seven years, was translated into Chinese by Lin Shaohua and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House …
The Beauty of Simplicity: Reflections of a Software Development Practitioner cover
Rating 3.6
The Beauty of Simplicity: Reflections of a Software Development Practitioner Ni Jian China Machine Press · 2010 The Beauty of Simplicity: Reflections of a Software Development Practitioner is a set of reflections on software development thought written by Ni Jia…
The Invincible Iron Man 500.1 cover
Rating 3.6
The Invincible Iron Man 500.1 Matt Fraction / Salvatore La Rocca The Invincible Iron Man #500.1 is a launch-style special issue from Marvel's 2011 "Point One" initiative. Released on February 2, 2011, it runs 20 pag…
The Black Pot: My Days Risking My Life with Criminals cover
Rating 3.7
The Black Pot: My Days Risking My Life with Criminals Chang Shuxin Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2016 The Black Pot: My Days Risking My Life with Criminals is a long urban crime-investigation novel by the web author Chang Shuxin, following his novel Yu…
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle cover
Rating 4.0
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel Nabokov wrote in his later years, and one of his longest and most personally prized works, often grouped w…
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage cover
Rating 4.1
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami Nanhai Publication Company · 2013 When Tsukuru Tazaki was in high school in Nagoya, he belonged to an inseparable group of five friends. The surnames of the two boys and two girls each…
The Bronze Age cover
Rating 4.5
The Bronze Age Wang Xiaobo Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2003 The Bronze Age is the last of Wang Xiaobo's "Times Trilogy," consisting of three novels: Wanshou Temple, Red Braids on the Night Run, and In Search of…
Superman Vol. 2 #205 (For Tomorrow, Part 2) cover
Rating 1.9
Superman Vol. 2 #205 (For Tomorrow, Part 2) Brian Azzarello / Jim Lee / Scott Williams · 2004 This volume collects The Superman Vol. 2 #205, part two of the twelve-issue storyline For Tomorrow by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Jim Lee, origi…
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature cover
Rating 4.1
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature 史蒂芬·平克 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2015 The Stuff of Thought is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's follow-up to The Language Instinct, another work on language and human nature; the origin…
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Superman: Metropolis Roy Thomas / Jean-Marc Loffisier / Randy Lofisier / Ted McKeever DC Comics · 1996 Superman: Metropolis is a graphic novel in DC's Elseworlds line, adapted by Roy Thomas and Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, and drawn and colo…
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare cover
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare G.K.切斯特顿 Nanhai Publication Company · 2013 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by the English writer and stylist G. K. Chesterton, published in 1908 with the subtitle "A Nightmare.…
Death in Venice cover
Rating 4.1
Death in Venice Thomas Mann Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2008 Death in Venice is a novella by the German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912 and one of the representative works of his early "artist novels." The…
See Through Journey to the West and You Become a Sage cover
Rating 3.5
See Through Journey to the West and You Become a Sage Yufenglou Zhuren Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2012 This is a collection of critical essays in which Yufenglou Zhuren (real name Chen Guangxu) rereads Journey to the West from a "deconstructive" perspec…
The Divine Comedy cover
Rating 4.3
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri People's Literature Publishing House · 2018 The Divine Comedy is a long epic poem written by the Italian poet Dante (1265–1321) during his exile, composed between about 1307 and 1321. Running to…
The Language and Human Nature Quartet (4 Volumes) cover
The Language and Human Nature Quartet (4 Volumes) 史蒂芬·平克 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2015 The "Language and Human Nature Quartet" is a collection of representative works by Steven Pinker, Harvard professor of psychology and cognitive scient…
The Maze of the Foreign Land cover
The Maze of the Foreign Land Turner CITIC Press The Maze of the Foreign Land (by Turner, CITIC Press) is a collection of essays organized around the idea of the "foreign land." The "maze" in the tit…
Batman: Black and White Vol. 4, Issue 4 cover
Batman: Black and White Vol. 4, Issue 4 Multiple Authors Batman: Black and White is a black-and-white short-story anthology series DC launched in 1996, inviting different writers and artists to tell a comple…
A Clockwork Orange cover
Rating 4.0
A Clockwork Orange 安东尼·伯吉斯 Yilin Press · 2019 A Clockwork Orange is a novel written by the English author Anthony Burgess in 1961 and published in 1962; it is his most influential work and was inc…
The Omega Men Vol. 2 cover
The Omega Men Vol. 2 Tom King / Barnaby Bagenda World Publishing Corporation This volume is Book 2 of the V3 series of The Omega Men, written by Tom King with art by Barnaby Bagenda, collecting the original issue #2 published i…