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The Scarlet Letter (1850) is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells th …

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first …

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibilit …

This beautiful translation contains 127 beloved tales written by Hans Christian Andersen, including such well-known stories as "The Little Match Girl" …

As histories, this book has some constructive features. First, the authors have written a topical, not a narrative, history. The authors have tried to …

Studying the life of aristocratic families in Tibetan history is a rather difficult topic for Tibetologists. There are some famous studies about Tibet …

The Chinese creation myth that narrates the universe and the origin of the world approximates the oriental philosophical secrets of the root meaning a …

Of the 4,000-odd books on military strategy produced over the course of Chinese history, “The Art of War” is almost unanimously acknowledged as the mo …

The author of this book, Mr. Zhao Qizheng, was then Shanghai's Vice Mayor in charge of Pudong's development and Shanghai's external affairs. No wonder …

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–1881 and then a …