Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine by Jules Verne
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"Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel published in 1879. Kin-Fo, a wealthy young Chinese man indifferent to life, believes himself ruined and asks his philosopher friend Wang to kill him within a set deadline, hoping to finally feel emotion through fear. When Kin-Fo discovers he isn't ruined after all, he desperately wants to live—but Wang has vanished, and Kin-Fo must chase him across China to
cancel his own death sentence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Benett, Léon, 1838-1917 |
| Title | Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulations_of_a_Chinaman_in_China Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Tribulations_d%27un_Chinois_en_Chine_(roman) |
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Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Rich people -- Fiction |
| Subject | China -- Fiction |
| Subject | Happiness -- Fiction |
| Subject | Murder for hire -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 45058 |
| Release Date | Mar 5, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 482 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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