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注文の多い料理店
By 宮沢賢治
Two young gentlemen hunters, lost in the mountains with their dogs dead, find a restaurant whose every door bears a polite notice asking a little more of them. Miyazawa Kenji's tale, the title story of the only collection he published in his lifetime (1924), is a darkly comic fable about city men and the creatures they hunt.
1 chapter · About 10 minutes of published text
浮生六記
By 沈復
Shen Fu, a minor clerk and artist of Suzhou, recalls his happy marriage to the clever Yun, the pleasures of small things, and the poverty that wrecked it all. Its six records are among the most loved memoirs in Chinese.
6 chapters · About 105 minutes of published text
海上花列傳
By Han Bangqing
In the courtesan houses of 1890s Shanghai, clients, sing-song girls and their madams bargain over money, love and position. Its dialogue is written in Wu dialect, and its many interwoven stories are told with cool, unsentimental realism. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
64 chapters · About 557 minutes of published text
玉梨魂
By 徐枕亞
A young widow, Bai Meiniang, and the tutor He Mengxia fall in love but are held apart by duty, and she urges him to marry her sister-in-law instead. Xu Zhenya's 1912 romance in ornate parallel prose was the bestseller of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school.
30 chapters · About 196 minutes of published text
紅樓夢
By 程偉元
Young Jia Baoyu grows up among his cousins in the vast Rongguo mansion, bound by a fated attachment to the fragile Lin Daiyu while his family steers him toward Xue Baochai. Cao Xueqin's great novel follows the splendour of the Jia clan to its ruin, with Gao E's forty closing chapters. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text.
120 chapters · About 1,695 minutes of published text
羅生門
By 芥川龍之介
In a Kyoto ruined by earthquake, fire and famine, a servant who has lost his place shelters from the rain under the decaying Rashomon gate and wonders whether he must turn thief to live. Akutagawa's short story of 1915, drawn from a medieval collection of tales, turns on what he does when he climbs to the tower where the unclaimed dead are left.
1 chapter · About 11 minutes of published text
老殘遊記
By Liu E
An itinerant doctor wanders through Shandong in the last years of the Qing, curing patients, listening to ballad singers and looking into the cruelty of officials who believe their own honesty excuses everything. Part travel book, part detective story and part political allegory. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
20 chapters · About 198 minutes of published text
聊齋誌異
By 蒲松齡
Pu Songling's strange tales of fox spirits, ghosts, scholars and lovers, told in a limpid literary style and sprinkled with sharp comment on corrupt officials. Beautiful fox women and honest men who fall in love with them are the collection's favourite figures. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
12 chapters · About 835 minutes of published text
花月痕
By 魏子安
The scholar Wei Chisheng and the courtesan Liu Qiuhen, and their friends Han Hanshi and Du Caichun, find that talent in the late Qing is not rewarded by power. Wei Xiuren's novel mixes love, war and failed ambition. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
52 chapters · About 426 minutes of published text
英烈傳
The rise of Zhu Yuanzhang, from beggar monk to the first Ming emperor, is told through the battles and counsellors who help him defeat the Yuan and rival warlords. Liu Bowen, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun are the heroes around him.
80 chapters · About 399 minutes of published text
蕩寇志
By 俞万春
Yu Wanchun's continuation of the Water Margin from chapter seventy-one: loyal Song generals hunt down the Liangshan outlaws until they are destroyed. It is an anti-rebel reply to the earlier novel. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
35 chapters · About 649 minutes of published text
西遊補
By 董說
In a dream, Sun Wukong is lured into a world of illusion by the Green-Green Fish and wanders through time and the underworld, even playing at being an emperor. Dong Yue's strange supplement to the Journey to the West is a satire of desire and history. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
16 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text
西遊記
By Wu Cheng'en
A stone monkey born from a rock learns magic, makes himself a nuisance to Heaven and is pinned beneath a mountain, until he is freed to guard the monk Xuanzang on his long road to India for the Buddhist scriptures. With a greedy pig, a quiet river ogre and a dragon turned horse, the pilgrims meet eighty-one ordeals of demons, spirits and their own failings. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
100 chapters · About 1,284 minutes of published text
說岳全傳
By 錢彩
Born as a great roc descends to earth, the Song general Yue Fei rises from a poor village to lead the war against the Jurchen invaders. Court intrigue, the traitor Qin Hui and the sons who take up his cause fill this long legendary biography. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
80 chapters · About 751 minutes of published text
走れメロス
By 太宰治
A young shepherd named Melos, condemned by a tyrant king, is given three days to go home for his sister's wedding while his friend Selinuntius waits in his place as hostage. Dazai Osamu's short story of 1940, adapted from Schiller's ballad, follows his race back through flood and bandits to keep his word. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
1 chapter · About 19 minutes of published text
醒世恆言
By 馮夢龍
Forty vernacular stories collected by Feng Menglong in 1627, among them the oil seller who wins the courtesan Huaikui and the magistrate who pairs the wrong lovers. Marriage, money and the justice of humble people run through the volume. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
40 chapters · About 1,022 minutes of published text
野叟曝言
By 夏敬渠
Wen Suchen, a hero of perfect learning and virtue, defeats foreign tribes, wins many wives and saves the empire in this vast Qing fantasy of the Confucian scholar. A strange mix of piety, military romance and sexual fantasy. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages of graphic violence; each omission is marked in the text.
154 chapters · About 2,134 minutes of published text
銀河鉄道の夜
By 宮沢賢治
On the night of the Centaurus Festival a lonely schoolboy named Giovanni finds himself on a train that runs along the Milky Way beside his friend Campanella, among stars, strange passengers and the souls of the lost. Left unfinished at Miyazawa Kenji's death in 1933, it is one of the most loved Japanese stories of childhood, grief and the search for happiness.
9 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text
鏡花緣
By Li Ruzhen
A disappointed scholar sails abroad with his merchant brother-in-law and visits fantastic countries, among them a land of gentlemen, a land of giants and a Kingdom of Women where men are bound and powdered. Begun as a voyage of wonders, it becomes the story of a hundred talented young women in the reign of Empress Wu. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
96 chapters · About 731 minutes of published text
閱微草堂筆記
By 紀曉嵐
Ji Yun's notes from a thatched cottage on ghost stories, fox tales and odd happenings, told with a dry sense of humour and a Confucian suspicion of superstition. Plain moral comment follows the stories he hears from friends and servants. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
24 chapters · About 671 minutes of published text
阿Ｑ正傳
By Lu Xun
Ah Q, a village odd-job man who turns every humiliation into a private victory, drifts toward the 1911 Revolution without understanding it. Lu Xun's novella is a comic and merciless portrait of a man and, through him, of a nation. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
9 chapters · About 56 minutes of published text
隋唐演義
By Chu Renhu
From the excesses of Emperor Yang of Sui to the founding of the Tang and the reigns of Empress Wu and Emperor Xuanzong, a century of palace intrigue and rebellion. Heroes of the greenwood such as Qin Shubao share the stage with emperors and consorts. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
100 chapters · About 1,196 minutes of published text