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Six Records of a Floating Life

2004-09-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2004-09-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Six Records of a Floating Life by : Shen Fu

Download or read book Six Records of a Floating Life written by Shen Fu. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel 'layers' of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty.

A Floating Life

1999-07-30 Fiction
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Release : 1999-07-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 592/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Floating Life by : Simon Elegant

Download or read book A Floating Life written by Simon Elegant. This book was released on 1999-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studious young son of a vintner takes down the life and exploits of Li Po, China's legendary poet, as the poet recalls his outlandish adventures

A Floating Life

2012-09 Fiction
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Release : 2012-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 025/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Floating Life by : Tad Crawford

Download or read book A Floating Life written by Tad Crawford. This book was released on 2012-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that he is no longer certain about who or what he is, a middle-aged narrator attends a party and talks with an unknown woman who proves to be his wife before finding himself separated and enduring an abstract existence of mercurial boundaries before bonding with an elderly Dutch model maker who dreams of taming nature's destructive forces.

The Floating Book

2013-06-03 Business & Economics
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Release : 2013-06-03
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 84X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Floating Book by : Michelle Lovric

Download or read book The Floating Book written by Michelle Lovric. This book was released on 2013-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.

An Artist of the Floating World

2012-09-05 Fiction
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Release : 2012-09-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis An Artist of the Floating World by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book An Artist of the Floating World written by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book was released on 2012-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

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