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Dream of the Red Chamber is a masterpiece of Chinese literature and
one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the
mid-18th century during the Qing Dynasty and is generally
acknowledged to be a pinnacle of Chinese fiction. The novel is
believed to be semi-autobiographical, mirroring the rise and decay
of author's own family and, by extension, of the Qing Dynasty. As
the author states in the first chapter, it is intended to be a
memorial to the women he knew in his youth - friends, relatives and
servants. At the center of the story is Bao-yu, a precocious,
spoiled, and undisciplined boy and his romantic affinity to his
poetry-loving, orphaned cousin, Dai-yu. The novel is remarkable not
only for its huge cast of characters and psychological scope, but
also for its precise and detailed observation of the life and
social structures typical of 18th-century Chinese aristocracy.
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Walden (Paperback)
Alex Struik; Henry David Thoreau
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R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau"s groundbreaking
"Walden" has influenced generations of readers and continues to
inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature.
There is so much wisdom in Walden, it's impossible to digest it all
even in a dozen readings. Pithy lines and quotes by Henry David
Thoreau tend to the return to the reader over and over again, as
life rolls along. A favorite quote from Thoreau states that he
would be happy to live in a pine box, three feet by six feet, as
long as he could wake up every morning in the middle of nature.
When it came to simplicity and sustainability, Henry David Thoreau
was years ahead of his time. Walden, along with the journals of
Henry David Thoreau, constitute some of the most useful of and
timeless of all American literature.
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington
Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's
fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in
Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New
York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the
story, I had never been on the Catskills." Washington Irving (April
3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist,
biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He
is best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
and "Rip Van Winkle." His historical works include biographies of
George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several
histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as
Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving served as
the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of
a Man of Character," is a tragic novel by British author Thomas
Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on
the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's
Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England. The novel is
often considered one of Hardy's greatest works. Thomas Hardy (2
June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A
Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also
influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially
by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important
influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also highly
critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on
a declining rural society.
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