The Life of George Borrow
Herbert Jenkins
John Murray · 1912
The Life of George Borrow is a biography of the nineteenth-century English writer George Henry Borrow (1803–1881) written by the English author and pu…
Edison, His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer / Thomas Commerford Martin
Harper & Brothers · 1910
This book is the authorized biography of Edison published during his lifetime, brought out in two volumes by Harper & Brothers in New York and London …
My Abnormal Life (Updated Edition)
Hong Huang
Writers Publishing House · 2013
My Abnormal Life (Updated Edition) is Hung Huang's reorganized and expanded account of her own life. The author comes from a distinguished family: her…
That Old Book List
俞晓群
Zhejiang University Press · 2014
That Old Book List is a collection of bibliophilic essays by the publisher Yu Xiaoqun, most of them written between 2012 and the first half of 2014. W…
Rating 3.5★
Two Things You Can't Help but Love
Yataro Matsuura
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2013
Two Things You Can't Help but Love is a small book by Japanese publisher and lifestyle writer Yataro Matsuura, written for everyone who carries anxiet…
Rating 3.8★
The Fragrance of Books in This Generation: People and Events in Thirty Years of Publishing
俞晓群
Zhejiang University Press · 2010
This book is a collection of publishing essays by the renowned publisher Yu Xiaoqun, published in 2010 by Zhejiang University Press · Qizhen Guan unde…
Daredevil Vol. 4 No. 8
Mark Waid / Chris Samnee
Marvel Comics · 2014
This is issue #8 of Daredevil Vol. 4 (the 2014 series written by Mark Waid and drawn by Chris Samnee), and it marks the series' first introduction of …
Shen Changwen: Speaking and Listening Are Both an Art
Tencent Master
CITIC Press · 2013
A small book of under a hundred pages, yet it holds the half-lifetime experience of a publishing veteran. In his usual self-deprecating tone, Shen Cha…
My Abnormal Life (Updated Edition)
Hong Huang
Writers Publishing House · 2013
My Abnormal Life (Updated Edition) is Hong Huang's reconsideration of her early years, published by Writers Publishing House in September 2013 and rel…
All Book Lovers
Shen Changwen
Yilin Press · 2013
This book is a selection of interviews and articles on publishing that appeared during the first five years of Shanghai Book Review, the Sunday cultur…
Shen Changwen: Talking and Listening Are Both an Art (China Story)
Tencent Master
CITIC Press · 2013
This book is one volume in CITIC Publishing's "China Story" series, written by the Tencent Masters team, and records the life of publisher Shen Changw…
Rating 3.8★
Asymmetry
莉萨·哈利迪
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Asymmetry is the debut novel of the American writer Lisa Halliday. After its English-language publication in 2018, the media described it as a "litera…
The Golden Age
Gore Vidal
Doubleday · 2000
The Golden Age is a 2000 novel by the American writer Gore Vidal, the seventh and final installment in his Narratives of Empire series, following Burr…
Rating 3.9★
Love Life as You Love Beer
王竞
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Love Life as You Love Beer is Wang Jing's collection of cross-cultural essays. The author graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Litera…
A Ranking of the World's Great Figures of the Twentieth Century
林衡哲
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2013
This book is a "roll call of great figures" for the twentieth century by the Taiwanese physician and publisher Lin Hengzhe. In the form of biographica…
Rating 3.8★
Conversations with the Great Minds: Big Questions Series (6-Book Set)
约翰·布罗克曼
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2017
The "Conversations with the Great Minds: Big Questions Series," planned by Cheer Publishing and published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House, compr…
Rating 3.9★
Collected Letters of Dai Wenbao
李频
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
The Letters of Dai Wenbao collects letters written by Dai Wenbao to figures in the publishing world such as Chen Yuan, Li Zhongfa, and Fan Yong. Dai W…
Rating 4.1★
The Story Behind the Book
俞晓群
Sino-Culture Press · 2023
In this book, the renowned publisher Yu Xiaoqun collects 92 essays and columns written in recent years alongside his work and reading. Having spent ne…
Rating 3.2★
Spring Flowers Collection: Selected Writings by Zhonghua Book Company Staff (2021)
Zhonghua Book Company
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
The staff anthology of Zhonghua Book Company is titled Chunhua Ji (Spring Blossoms), a name taken from the “Biography of Cui Yin” in Volume 52 of the …
Rating 4.0★
Gao Fengchi's Diary
叶新
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
In the history of modern and contemporary publishing, Gao Fengchi is an important figure who has been overshadowed. This book compiles the only surviv…