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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

by Henrietta Harrison

Other books by Henrietta Harrison

The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village by Henrietta Harrison

Our most recommended books

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
by Henrietta Harrison

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson