Classical Fiction

203 books

The Complete Story of Yue Fei cover
The Complete Story of Yue Fei Qian Cai / 金丰 The full title of this book is The Newly Expanded Romance of the Loyal and Brave King Yue, in twenty volumes and eighty chapters, compiled by Qian Cai…
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Jing Hua Yuan (Flowers in the Mirror) Li Ruzhen The Hundred Flowers Fairy, having refused at the Jasper Pool birthday feast to defy the seasons and make all flowers bloom at once, earns the enmity o…
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Library of China's Ten Great Banned and Destroyed Novels 雪樵主人 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2011 This collection brings together ten Ming and Qing dynasty chapter novels: The Strange Tale of the Twin Phoenixes, The Heavenly Leopard, The Romance of…
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The Three Heroes and Five Gallants Shi Yukun The Three Heroes and Five Gallants is a lengthy chapter novel compiled by literati from the songbook of the Qing dynasty storyteller Shi Yukun, origin…
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Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin / Bu Naifu (pen name Wu Mingshi) / Gao E The novel opens with the celestial stone left by Nüwa when she mended the sky, which descends to the mortal world and sets the stage for the rise and …
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The Complete Story of the Mirage Tower Yuling Laoren Set against the backdrop of the Guangzhou Maritime Customs and the Thirteen Factories during the mid-Qing dynasty, this novel follows Su Wankui, a mer…
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The Complete Story of Ji Gong 陈忱 During the Southern Song dynasty, Li Maochun, a military commissioner of the capital garrison, and his wife pray for a child at Guoqing Temple and are…
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The Four Great Novels of Exposure of the Late Qing 李宝嘉 / Wu Jianren / Liu E / 曾朴 / Zhang Youhe People's Literature Publishing House · 2009 The so-called "Four Great Novels of Exposure of the Late Qing" is the collective name given by Lu Xun in A Brief History of Chinese Fiction to four fu…
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Great Value Classic Historical Novels Collection (31-Volume Set) Li Qing / 汪寄 / Luo Guanzhong / 鸳湖渔叟 / Anonymous The Great Value Classic Historical Novels Collection is a 31-volume e-book set of classical Chinese vernacular novels, made up of six works—The Spring…
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Rating 4.1
Stories to Awaken the World (Annotated Edition) Feng Menglong People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 The Last of the Three Words, "Stories to Awaken the World" is the final installment in the trilogy that also includes "Stories to Enlighten the World"…
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Manon Lescaut Antoine-François Prévost People's Literature Publishing House · 2019 Manon Lescaut, the masterpiece of the French writer Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), was published in 1731 as the seventh volume of Memoirs of a Man of Quali…
Traces of Flowers and the Moon (Simplified Chinese Edition) (BookDNA Chinese Classics Series) cover
Traces of Flowers and the Moon (Simplified Chinese Edition) (BookDNA Chinese Classics Series) 魏秀仁 Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2013 Traces of Flowers and the Moon is a full-length serialized vernacular novel in the huizhang style by the Qing dynasty man of letters Wei Xiuren, runni…
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Records of the Mysterious and Strange 牛僧孺 Zhonghua Book Company · 2006 Xuan Guai Lu (Records of the Mysterious and Strange) is a representative collection of chuanqi tales from the Tang dynasty. Its author, Niu Sengru (78…
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Guoxue.com Annotated Edition, Reviewed by Liu Shide) cover
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Guoxue.com Annotated Edition, Reviewed by Liu Shide) Luo Guanzhong Romance of the Three Kingdoms, originally titled Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi (Popular Romance of the Records of the Three Kingdoms), is China's first full-…
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The Complete Illustrated Four Great Classical Novels Sun Wen / 金协中 / 吴友如 / Zhang Guangyu Sino-Culture Press · 2021 The Complete Illustrated Four Great Classical Novels is a collector's illustrated reader of the four classics built around imagery. Published by Huawe…
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Rating 4.1
Amazing Tales: Second Series (Chinese Classics Annotated Fiction Series) Ling Mengchu Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 Amazing Tales: Second Series is a collection of simulated huaben stories compiled by the Ming dynasty writer Ling Mengchu as a sequel to Amazing Tales…
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The First Collection of Astonishing Tales Ling Mengchu Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The First Collection of Remarkable Tales, or Chu ke pai an jing qi, is a collection of simulated vernacular stories compiled by the Ming dynasty write…
Talking Investiture of the Gods: The Truth and Human Nature Behind The Investiture of the Gods cover
Rating 4.2
Talking Investiture of the Gods: The Truth and Human Nature Behind The Investiture of the Gods 卞恒沁 Zhejiang Education Publishing House · 2025 The Investiture of the Gods is a household name in China: characters such as Ji Fa, Nezha, Jiang Ziya, Daji, and King Zhou are known to virtually ever…
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Rating 4.8
Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin / Bu Naifu (pen name Wu Mingshi) / Cheng Weiyuan / Gao E People's Literature Publishing House · 1996 Dream of the Red Chamber is the pinnacle of the classical Chinese novel, in one hundred and twenty chapters. Set against the rise and fall of the four…
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Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms (2 Volumes) Feng Menglong / 蔡元放 People's Literature Publishing House · 1979 The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms is a lengthy historical romance in one hundred and eight chapters, compiled by the Ming dynasty popular wr…