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The Adventures of a Chinaman in China

Jules Verne

First published 1889
Publisher Lee and Shepard
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 271

{{Tr|Virginia Champlin [Grace Virginia Lord]}} This translation begins: ""It must be acknowledged, however, that there is some good in life," observed one of the guests, who, leaning his elbow on the arm of his chair with a marble back, sat nibbling a root of a sugar water-lily."