The Debt of Tears
7 best books like The Debt of Tears (Xueqin Cao): Bridge of Birds, An Orchestra of Minorities, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Six Records of a Floating Life, The Complete Poetry, The Riverside Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
| Author | Barry Hughart |
| ISBN | 0345321383 |
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.
The quest led them to a host of...
An Orchestra of Minorities
| Author | Chigozie Obioma |
| ISBN | 0316412392 |
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
Six Records of a Floating Life
| Author | Shen Fu |
| ISBN | 0140444297 |
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0385023510 |
Preface
Table of Dates
Further Reading
Poems 1645
--On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
--A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
--Psalm 136
--The Passion
--On Time
--Upon the Circumcision
--At a Solemn Music
--An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
--Song....
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0395809991 |
The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 1425009131 |
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
Milton's poetry...
