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Una novela del esperpento sobre dictadura, violencia política, lenguaje barroco y poder americano.

春秋战国历史演义，铺陈诸侯争霸、谋臣策士、战争外交和乱世兴亡。

梁启超评述晚清重臣李鸿章，涉及洋务、外交、甲午战争与时代困局。

芥川晩年の不安、幻視、都市感覚、死の予感が凝縮された短篇小説。

A satirical voyage through strange societies that expose pride, politics, science, and human absurdity.

Unamuno’s ironic novel of rational education, fatherly experiment, science, love, failure, and existential comedy.

Eine deutsche Ausgabe des Shangshu, mit Reden, Erlassen und politischen Erinnerungen der frühen chinesischen Klassik.

A Prague occult classic of the Ghetto, identity, hallucination, Jewish legend, doubles, and mystical terror.

Pereda’s regional novel of Cantabrian rural life, local speech, land, family, custom, and social change.

D’Annunzio’s ambitious poetic cycle of sea, sky, earth, myth, heroism, sensation, music, and Italian modernity.

Daudet’s autobiographical novel of childhood sensitivity, poverty, school life, Paris, family loyalty, and artistic hope.

Gautier’s provocative novel of beauty, disguise, desire, gender performance, theatre, and art for art’s sake.

Lima Barreto’s political satire of parliament, ambition, patronage, journalism, marriage, and the machinery of power.

A major French Romantic meditation on solitude, Alpine landscape, melancholy, doubt, and the restless modern self.

Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.

A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.

A vivid emigration voyage narrative of Atlantic crossing, shipboard society, class, hope, fear, and Italian diaspora.

A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.

Faraday’s famous lectures explain flame, combustion, air, water, carbon, and scientific observation through a candle.

A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.

Taylor’s influential management classic on labor efficiency, time study, incentives, supervision, and industrial organization.

Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.

徳田秋声の代表的自然主義小説。お島の生、労働、結婚、欲望、独立心を力強く描く。

島崎藤村の長編小説。旧家、親族、相続、近代化、個人と家制度の重圧を描く。