World Classics - 100 Titles

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Publisher: Yilin Press
Publish Date: 1999-10-01
Features: The hundred literary classics included in the "100 World Literary Masterpieces" series are all carefully selected and repeatedly reviewed by renowned foreign literature translators and scholars in China, representing the most outstanding and highest artistic achievement works in the history of world literature. This series primarily focuses on classical literary masterpieces (such as Shakespeare's Complete Works, The Decameron, Don Quixote, Faust, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, Eugénie Grandet, Notes from the Hunter's Lodge, The Idiot, Anna Karenina), while also incorporating modern and contemporary literary works (The Buddenbrooks, Childhood, In the World, Man Dies Alone, Snow Country, Kokoro, The Passion, The Thorn Birds). The overall selection criteria emphasize renowned authors, famous works, and celebrated translations, including magnificent masterpieces that fill gaps in the history of Chinese literary translation (In Search of Lost Time, Ulysses, Essais by Montaigne), as well as the first-ever original translations of works like The Decameron in China. Ultra-luxurious boxed set.