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Goliath Gets Up cover
Rating 1.8
Goliath Gets Up Starbuck O'Dwyer Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2015 Goliath Gets Up is the second novel by the American author Starbuck O'Dwyer, first published in 2011 under the English title Goliath Gets Up; it was a…
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Rating 4.3
Simplicissimus Grimmelshausen People's Literature Publishing House · 2004 Simplicissimus is a representative work of German Baroque literature, written by Grimmelshausen under the original German title Der abenteuerliche Sim…
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Classics of Management Revisited (1): The Principles of Scientific Management 弗雷德里克·泰勒 China Machine Press · 2021 The Principles of Scientific Management is the representative work of Frederick Winslow Taylor, first published in 1911 and widely recognized as the f…
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The Waif's Cliff Qiong Yao Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 The novel *The Waif's Cliff* was first published in 1991 by Crown Publishing House in Taipei and belongs to Qiong Yao's "Six Dreams" series; its inspi…
The Godfather cover
Rating 4.5
The Godfather Mario Puzo Yilin Press · 2007 The Godfather is a novel by the American author Mario Puzo, first published in 1969. Set against the backdrop of New York's five Mafia families, the s…
Capital, Volume I cover
Capital, Volume I Karl Marx People's Publishing House · 2004 Volume I of Capital, subtitled "Critique of Political Economy," was first published in Hamburg, Germany, in September 1867 and is the crowning work of…
The Myth of Sisyphus cover
Rating 4.2
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 The Myth of Sisyphus is a seminal philosophical essay by Albert Camus, the French writer and 1957 Nobel laureate in literature. Subtitled "On the Absu…
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Superfluous Materials Chen Danqing Guangxi Normal University Press · 2007 This is a book repeatedly tested by time: the first edition was edited around 2000 but for various reasons could not appear, was printed by Shandong P…
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Rating 4.5
Photographic Composition Ben Clements / David Rosenfeld Great Wall Publishing House · 1983 Photographic Composition is a classic textbook on composition by the American photographers Ben Clements and David Rosenfeld, originally published in …
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The Girl Meridel Le Sueur West End Press · 1978 The Girl is the representative work of the American left-wing woman writer Meridel Le Sueur (1900–1996). Completed in 1939, the novel was banned durin…
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Rating 4.0
Mansfield Park Jane Austen Yilin Press · 2017 Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's third published novel, following Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. First published in May 1814 and writte…
The Little Lame Prince cover
The Little Lame Prince Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · 1875 The Little Lame Prince (full title The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak) is a children's book by the English writer Dinah Maria Mulock Crai…
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Rating 4.0
The House of Missing You 明前雨后 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016 The House of Missing You is a full-length romance and one of the representative works of Mingqianyuhou, a well-known author on Jinjiang Literature Cit…
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Rating 4.0
Fleet of Time Jiuyehui Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 Fleet of Time is a full-length youth novel by Jiu Yehui, first serialized on Jinjiang Literature City in 2007, published in book form by Oriental Pres…
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Rating 4.1
Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839–1861 魏斐德 New Star Press · 2017 Strangers at the Gate is the doctoral dissertation and breakout work of the American historian Frederic Wakeman Jr., first published by the University…
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Rating 4.3
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James People's Literature Publishing House · 2018 The Portrait of a Lady, first published in 1881, is the most representative novel of Henry James's early career. Isabel Archer, an American girl orpha…
Lucile cover
Lucile Robert Bulwer-Lytton · 1860 Lucile is a long narrative poem published in 1860 under the pen name "Owen Meredith" by the English poet and diplomat Robert Bulwer-Lytton, first Earl…
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Rating 4.8
Les Misérables Victor Marie Hugo People's Literature Publishing House · 2015 Les Misérables is a novel written by the French Romantic writer Victor Hugo during his exile and first published in 1862; it is regarded as one of his…
A World Apart cover
Rating 4.0
A World Apart 李歆 Blossom Press · 2007 In an era crowded with Qing time-travel romances, A World Apart is repeatedly cited for two things: a clever choice of subject and a delicate touch. I…
Dolphin Island cover
Dolphin Island Arthur Charles Clarke 安徽科学技术出版社 · 2024 Dolphin Island (first published in 1963) is a juvenile marine science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the near future, it fol…