Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine by Jules Verne

"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)
Credits Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed
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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
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EBook-No. 45058
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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