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      • How Civilizations Remain Themselves: Series Overview and Reading Map
      • The Future Has No Representative
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    • How Everyday Psychology Takes Shape: Season One Overview
    • How Do We Read Other People? — How Everyday Psychology Takes Shape, Season Two
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    • Jung’s The Red Book Reading Notes
    • 100 Works of World Literature
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    • One Classical Chinese Sentence a Day
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    • After AI Enters the Workflow
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    • When Numbers Start Making Decisions — Season One Overview: Life on Either Side of the Threshold
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    • Piano Sheet Music
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    • 88 Pianists
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Category: 100 Works of World Literature

A bilingual, source-grounded series introducing 100 major works of world literature through concise overviews and complete guides to their stories, characters, structures, themes, and literary significance.

The Remains of the Day: What Is Left after a Life Given to Duty?

石黑一雄, 长日将尽, Kazuo Ishiguro, Literary Guides, The Remains of the Day, World Literature, 文学导读, 世界文学

Blindness: Who Will Still See Other People When Sight Is Gone?

Blindness, 若泽·萨拉马戈, José Saramago, Literary Guides, World Literature, 失明症漫记, 文学导读, 世界文学

A Grain of Wheat: Betrayal inside the Story of Independence

A Grain of Wheat, Literary Guides, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, World Literature, 恩古吉·瓦·提安哥, 文学导读, 一粒麦种, 世界文学

Season of Migration to the North: Returning Home in History’s Current

Literary Guides, Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, World Literature, 北迁季节, 塔伊卜·萨利赫, 文学导读, 世界文学

The Cairo Trilogy: How a Family’s Door Opens onto History

纳吉布·马哈福兹, Literary Guides, Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy, World Literature, 开罗三部曲, 文学导读, 世界文学

Midnight’s Children: How a Person Becomes Handcuffed to National History

萨尔曼·鲁西迪, Literary Guides, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, World Literature, 午夜之子, 文学导读, 世界文学

The Tin Drum: The Narrator Who Refuses to Grow and Germany’s Amnesia

铁皮鼓, Günter Grass, Literary Guides, The Tin Drum, World Literature, 君特·格拉斯, 文学导读, 世界文学

The Man Without Qualities: The Sense of Possibility and an Empire Going Nowhere

罗伯特·穆齐尔, Literary Guides, Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, World Literature, 文学导读, 没有个性的人, 世界文学

Buddenbrooks: How a Family Declines Through Its Success

Buddenbrooks, Literary Guides, Thomas Mann, World Literature, 布登勃洛克一家, 托马斯·曼, 文学导读, 世界文学

Fathers and Sons: After Negating Everything, How Does One Face Love and Death?

父与子, Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, Literary Guides, World Literature, 文学导读, 世界文学, 伊凡·屠格涅夫

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