Monday, January 18, 2010

English Usage in China

This signage is displayed prominently as you enter the bathroom.

According to the Canon Law and its Interpretation, are you supposed to wear slipper inside the bathroom or otherwise?

The concierge of the hotel offers no better explanation either. On the safer side, please ignore the English equivalent. Brush up your Chinese while you are in China.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

A Tale of Two Cities

This novel is a must in your reading list, even the Nobel Laureate Chen-Ning Franklin Yang could recite the first para without looking at the book.


I will read again this novel on my trip to China tomorrow. Medically speaking, if you stare at black alphabets or numbers for a certain numerical time frame, the book has the hypnotic effect of putting you to sleep.

As China still maintains the ban on blogger site, my blog will be on animated suspension for five days. So, my dear friends, please take a short rest, visit my blog after five days.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Books That You Must Read

New Year resolution comes in many flavours. As far I am concerned, I would like to spend much of my time on watching movies and reading books. So, the books listed below are my recommendation. I will list the highly recommended movies in my next post.


 


 


 

Author.

Title.

  
 

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

  
 

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

  
 

Anderson, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

  
 

Anderson, Hans Christian

Fairy Tales

  
 

Aristotle

The Poetics

  
 

Augustine of Hippo

The Confessions

  
 

Austen, Jane

Emma

  
 

Austen, Jane

Mansfield Park

  
 

Austen, Jane

Northanger Abbey

  
 

Austen, Jane

Persuasion

  
 

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

  
 

Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility

  
 

Balzac, Honore de

Colonel Chabert

  
 

Balzac, Honore de

Cousin Bette

  
 

Balzac, Honore de

The Country Doctor

  
 

Balzac, Honore de

Father Goriot

  
 

Barrie, J.M.

Peter Pan

  
 

Bellamy, Edward

Looking Backward

  
 

[Anonymous]

Beowulf

  
  

The Bible, King James Version

  
  

The Bible, New Testament (KJV)

  
  

The Bible, Old Testament (KJV)

  
 

Blake, William

Songs of Innocence and Experience

  
 

Boccaccio, Giovanni

The Decameron

  
 

Bronte, Anne

Agnes Grey

  
 

Bronte, Anne

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  
 

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

  
 

Bronte, Charlotte

Villette

  
 

Bronte, Emily

Wuthering Heights

  
 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Sonnets from the Portuguese

  
 

Browning, Robert

Selected Poetry

  
 

Bunyan, John

The Pilgrim's Progress

  
 

Cather, Willa

My Antonia

  
 

Cather, Willa

Death Comes for the Archbishop

  
 

Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote

  
 

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales

  
 

Chekhov, Anton

The Seagull

  
 

Chekhov, Anton

Uncle Vanya

  
 

Chopin, Kate

The Awakening & Selected Stories

  
 

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Poetry & Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  
 

Collins, Wilkie

The Law and the Lady

  
 

Collins, Wilkie

The Moonstone

  
 

Collins, Wilkie

The Woman in White

  
 

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness

  
 

Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim

  
 

Conrad, Joseph

Nostromo

  
 

Conrad, Joseph

The Secret Sharer

  
 

Conrad, Joseph

Typhoon

  
 

Crane, Stephen

The Red Badge of Courage

  
 

Dana, Richard Henry

Two Years Before the Mast

  
 

Dante, Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

  
 

Darwin, Charles

Origin of the Species

  
 

Defoe, Daniel

Robinson Crusoe

  
 

Defoe, Daniel

Moll Flanders

  
 

Dickens, Charles

Bleak House

  
 

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol

  
 

Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield

  
 

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

  
 

Dickens, Charles

Nicholas Nickleby

  
 

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist

  
 

Dickens, Charles

Pictures from Italy

  
 

Dickens, Charles

The Pickwick Papers

  
 

Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities

  
 

Dickinson, Emily

Collected Poems.

  
 

Donne, John

Songs and Sonnets

  
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Crime and Punishment

  
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Double

  
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Gambler

  
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Notes from the Underground

  
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Idiot

  
 

Douglass, Frederick

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The Hound of the Baskervilles

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

His Last Bow

  
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

  
 

Dreiser, Theodore

Sister Carrie

  
 

Dumas, Alexandre, pere

The Count of Monte Cristo

  
 

Dumas, Alexandre

The Three Musketeers

  
 

Eliot, George

Adam Bede

  
 

Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda

  
 

Eliot, George

Middlemarch

  
 

Eliot, George

The Mill on the Floss

  
 

Eliot, George

Silas Marner

  
 

Eliot, T. S.

The Wasteland

  
 

Eliot, T. S.

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock & Other Poems

  
 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Essays

  
 

Fielding, Henry

The History of Tom Jones

  
 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

  
 

Flaubert, Gustav

Madame Bovary.

  
 

Forster, E. M.

Howard's End.

  
 

Forster, E. M.

A Room With a View.

  
 

Forster, E. M.

Where Angels Fear to Tread.

  
 

Frost, Robert

Collected Poems.

  
 

Gibran, Khalil

The Madman

  
 

Gibran, Khalil

The Prophet

  
 

Gissing, George

New Grub Street

  
 

Gissing, George

The Odd Women

  
 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

The Sorrows of Young Werther

  
 

Gogol, Nikolai

Dead Souls

  
 

Gogol, Nikolai

The Inspector General

  
 

Gogol, Nikolai

The Overcoat

  
 

Hardy, Thomas

Far from the Madding Crowd

  
 

Hardy, Thomas

Jude the Obscure

  
 

Hardy, Thomas

The Mayor of Casterbridge

  
 

Hardy, Thomas

The Return of the Native

  
 

Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  
 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The House of the Seven Gables

  
 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Scarlet Letter

  
 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Blithedale Romance

  
 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Twice Told Tales

  
 

Hesse, Hermann

Siddhartha

  
 

Homer

The Iliad

  
 

Homer

The Odyssey

  
 

Hugo, Victor

Les Miserables

  
 

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World

  
 

Ibsen, Henrik

A Doll's House

  
 

Kafka, Franz

The Metamorphosis

  
 

James, Henry

Daisy Miller

  
 

James, Henry

The Ambassadors

  
 

James, Henry

The American

  
 

James, Henry

The Turn of the Screw

  
 

James, Henry

The Portrait of a Lady

  
 

James, Henry

Washington Square

  
 

Joyce, Jame

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  
 

Joyce, James

Dubliners

  
 

Joyce, James

Ulysses

  
 

Kafka, Franz

The Metamorphosis

  
 

Keats, John

Collected Poems

  
  

The Koran (Qu'ran)

  
 

Kipling, Rudyard

Captains Courageous

  
 

Kipling, Rudyard

Kim

  
 

Khayyam, Omar

The Rubaiyat

  
 

Lawrence, D. H.

Sons and Lovers

  
 

Lawrence, D. H.

Women in Love

  
 

Lewis, Sinclair

Babbit

  
 

Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street

  
 

Locke, John

Second Treatise on Civil Government

  
 

London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

  
 

Machiavelli, Nicolo

The Prince

  
 

Malory, Thomas

Le Mort D'Arthur

  
 

Marlowe, Christopher

Dr. Faustus

  
 

Marx, Kar

The Communist Manifesto

  
 

Melville, Herman

Bartleby, the Scrivener

  
 

Mellville, Herman

Billy Budd

  
 

Mellville, Herman

Moby Dick

  
 

Mellville, Herman

Typee

  
 

Meredith, George

The Egoist

  
 

Milton, John

Paradise Lost

  
 

Milton, John

Paradise Regained

  
 

Moliere

The Miser

  
 

More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

Utopia

  
 

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Beyond Good and Evil

  
 

Orwell, George

1984

  
 

Orwell, George

Animal Farm

  
 

Paine, Thomas

Common Sense

  
 

Plato

The Republic

  
 

Poe, Edgar Allen

Collected Tales

  
 

Pope, Alexander

The Rape of the Lock

  
 

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The Confessions

  
 

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The Social Contract

  
 

Sand, George

Mauprat

  
 

Rowlandson, Mary

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration

  
 

Scott, Sir Walter

Guy Mannering

  
 

Scott, Sir Walter

Ivanhoe

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Sonnets

  
 

Shakespeare, William

As You Like It

  
 

Shakespeare, William

All's Well That Ends Well

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Antony and Cleopatra

  
 

Shakespeare, William

A Comedy of Errors

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet

  
 

Shakespeare, William

King Lear

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Macbeth

  
 

Shakespeare, William

The Merchant of Venice

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Much Ado About Nothing

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Julius Caesar

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Romeo and Juliet

  
 

Shakespeare, William

A Midsummer Night's Dream

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Othello

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Twelfth Night

  
 

Shakespeare, William

Two Gentlemen of Verona

  
 

Shaw, George Bernard

Candida

  
 

Shaw, George Bernard

Pygmalion

  
 

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein

  
 

Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle

  
     
 

Sophocles

The Oedipus Trilogy

  
     
 

Stendhal

The Red and the Black

  
 

Sterne, Lawrence

Tristram Shandy

  
 

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island

  
 

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

  
 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin

  
 

Sun Tzu

The Art of War

  
 

Swift, Jonathan

A Modest Proposal

  
 

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

  
 

Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King

  
 

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Vanity Fair

  
 

Thoreau, Henry David

On Civil Disobedience

  
 

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden

  
 

Thucydides

History of the Pelyponnesion Wars

  
 

Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina

  
 

Tolstoy, Leo

War and Peace

  
 

Trollope, Anthony

Barchester Towers

  
 

Trollope, Anthony

The Way We Live Now

  
 

Truth, Sojourner [Gilbert]

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

  
 

Twain, Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  
 

Twain, Mark

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  
 

Twain, Mark

The Innocents Abroad

  
 

Twain, Mark

Life on the Mississippi

  
 

Twain, Mark

The Mysterious Stranger

  
 

Twain, Mark

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

  
 

Twain, Mark

The Prince and the Pauper

  
 

Twain, Mark

Pudd'nhead Wilson

  
 

U. S.

United States Constitution

  
 

U. S.

Declaration of Independence

  
 

Verne, Jules

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  
 

Verne, Jules

Around the World in Eighty Days

  
 

Voltaire

Candide

  
 

Wells, H. G.

War of the Worlds

  
 

Wells, H. G.

The Time Machine

  
 

Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence

  
 

Wharton, Edith

The House of Mirth

  
 

Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome

  
 

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass

  
 

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Grey

  
 

Wollstonecraft, Mary

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  
 

Wordsworth, William

Lyrical Ballads

  
 

Wordsworth, William

The Prelude

  
 

Woolf, Virginia

A Room of One's Own

  


 

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