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2021.
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"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books...
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Join award-winning author Mitali Perkins as she explores the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times. Through works by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary uncles and aunts, Perkins unpacks wisdom to help us thrive.
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"Many readers know C. S. Lewis as the fantasy writer of the Chronicles of Narnia or the apologist of Mere Christianity. But few know how deeply Lewis was formed by medieval authors like Dante and Boethius and how he saw their worldviews' relevance to the challenges of the modern world. Here, readers will encounter Lewis the medievalist to guide them in their own journey"--
4) The waves
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Against the background of the sea, the author presents a group of characters from childhood to old age who speak in soliloquy, and we see them as they appear to themselves and to each other. In the end one of the characters sums up the effect of their lives as a whole.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. THE SINNER AND THE SAINT is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story-and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literature--whether celebratory or scarily harsh--have become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in today's fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space...
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Liushenleilei Tang shi san bu qu volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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中文(繁體)
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唐诗是哪里来的?为什么会有这一场大爆发? 是谁埋下的火种?谁又点亮了火炬? 谁是伟大的接力者?又是什么促成了李白和杜甫的诞生? 《唐诗寒武纪》是六神磊磊唐诗三部曲的第yi部。从六朝到初唐,从谢灵运走出乌衣巷、开始少年游的405年,到天才涌现、点亮星河的初唐之末,时间跨度三百多年。作者打通时光隧道,走进大唐的诗歌江湖,围绕这一时期的重要诗人,如王勃、杨炯、卢照邻、骆宾王、宋之问、杜审言、上官婉儿、张若虚、陈子昂等的独特际遇,讲述了在诗歌高峰——以李白、杜甫为代表的盛唐诗出现之前,诗坛怎样冲出沉闷乏味,就像生命在寒武纪爆发一样,气象焕然一新。...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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中文(繁體)
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"The Holographic Image of History and Culture: On Dream of the Red Chamber" takes the untraditional reading method, horzontal axis is the world culture, the vertical axis is the Chinese culture, from the perspective of historical and cultural life and aesthetics, re-interpretation of the classic book
汉语史上有两本天书,《易经》和《红楼梦》。重新发现“红楼”,重新发现“中国”……《红楼梦》的问世,既标记着对以往历史的颠覆,又标记着一种人文精神的崛起。中国历史文化的全息性,得以在《红楼梦》里获得淋漓尽致的呈现。...
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2023.
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English
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"When the very modern character of Nancy Drew first appeared in 1930, no one had a clue that she would remain a star for the next century! To this day, Nancy is still the main character in new TV shows, movies, and books. What makes her so interesting to so many generations of readers? Nancy can do it all! She's a daring teenage girl who solves mysteries, expertly drives her famous blue car, cooks like a gourmet chef, swims like a pro, and more! Since...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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中文(繁體)
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This is a book that interprets Chinese history and social reality. The author interprets the character and destiny of the characters in "Dream of Red Chambers", as well as the process and reasons for the declines of Ning and Rong families to analyze the profound connotation of Chinese society with the "Grand View Garden" as the epitome and the deep genes of Chinese culture represented by the people in the "Red Chamber"
《闲话红楼:大观园的后门通梁山》是一本解读中国历史和社会现实的著作。作者通过解读《红楼梦》中人物的性格、命运,以及宁、荣二府走向衰落的过程和原因,极力挖掘、剖析了以“大观园”为缩影的中国社会的深刻内涵和以“红楼”中人为代表的中国文化的深层基因,以期透过不变的基本人性和喧嚣的社会表层去观照、思考、审视社会现实和现实中的人。...
14) 1984
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The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One. Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia....
16) Essays one
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A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis. Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive." Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's gifts...
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Dante For Beginners takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introduction to Dante and his times. Next, the reader meets a sweet lass named Beatrice and samples a bit of his other literary offerings, such as the great feast, the Convivio. But then it's on to the big one, the Commedia, and a canto by canto description of the entire work. Characters, ideas and situations are described as they happen-no...
18) The trial
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Everyman's library volume 75
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English
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The story of the indictment, trial and reckoning of Joseph K.
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"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through literature....
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[2023]
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English
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"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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