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81) Mu song
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Long is an author, social and culture critic, and professor of humanities. In this book of essays she writes about separation: her father's death, her aging mother, her sons growing up and leaving home, her vulnerability and failures, and about her friends...
Series
Jiu ge wen ku volume 1128
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Jiuge's best Chinese prose of 2012 edited by Yin Di. The writings included are mostly from literary heavyweights like Yu Guangzhong, Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai,) Lin Qingxuan, Ma Sen, Chen Wenqian, Zhang Yi, Liu Kexiang, Wang Jianzhuang, Zhang Xiguo, Liang Xuan, Yang Zhao, Ma Jiahui, etc. There are two winners in 2012: the octogenarian Wang Dingjun with his completed his memoir, and Chen Yizhi who also has a war-time memoir for her father's generation....
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This collection brings together some of this much-loved writer's prose work. In it, Oscar Wilde touches on a wide range of topics as only he can. He discusses the decay of lying, the critic as artist, and the truth of masks. He provides criticism of productions of works of Shakespeare and other theatrical concerns, such as stage scenery, stage morals, and "plays that are meant to be read, not to be acted." He also devotes his attention to women's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A feast of beautiful words by the winner of the 2020 US Presidential National and Social Contribution Award. A timeless chapter event, every moment of daily life is graceful and beautiful scenery. The light in my heart is the unremitting pursuit of the beauty of human nature. Han Xiu Wilde said: "We are all in the gutter, but there are still people who look up at the stars." In the peaceful years without war, we are still disturbed by many troubles...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This irreverent guide to crafting personal essays and creative nonfiction takes inspiration from the father of the essay, Michele de Montaigne, using lively essays to answer writing questions from top writers like Cheryl Strayed and Philip Lopate"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The book focuses on the loneliness of contemporary people. The content the author talks about ranges from the social responsibilities of writers, intellectuals, and thinkers to social issues and trends such as autism and sexual harassment, all revealing the author's deep understanding and care for the world. The loss of "humanistic spirit" and the decline of "humanism" can be said to be an urgent and misguided problem of our time. As an intellectual,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver "reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood 'friend' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, 'a place to enter, and in which to feel,' and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing,...
Author
Series
Zhang Xiaofeng zuo pin ji volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Prose collection. The author's journey to the far reaches of China evoked many historical references still relevant today.
我想,在遠古的時光裡,你一定會是族群裡面那個最會說故事的人,每一個聆聽者都會從你的故事裡面得到他所需要的一些什麼,也許是誘惑,也許是撫慰,也許是勇氣。──席慕蓉 「星星都已經到齊了,你為什麼還遲遲不來?我在夢裡是兩個人,醒來後卻還是一個人……」原本是首在蒙古高原傳唱的情歌,因為好友席慕蓉感動於歌曲之美,因而成為這本張曉風沉在甕底遲遲沒有出手的散文選集書名,細膩地鋪陳她和十多名好友同遊蒙古高原的點滴。...
Author
Series
Kan shi jie de fang fa volume 067
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Han Lianglu is Taiwain's most renowned food writer. She is also a keen observer of culture through art, literature, movies, media and most importantly, food. In this book of essays, Han describes the culture and civilization of East and West, ancient and modern through a pair of uncolored lens.
98) Shi xie shi
Author
Series
Hong fan wen xue cong shu volume 352
Pub. Date
2016 nian 8 yue.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The republished edition of Scrawling Room, a prose collection of 800-word essays first published in Hong Kong’s Express Daily in 1970s, written by Xi Xi (1938–), a reputed author and poet.
「《試寫室》是西西1970年在香港《快報》寫的專欄,每天一則,每則八百字,前後寫了幾個月。當時西西32歲,寫過不少影話、藝評、隨筆,編了兩齣電影劇本,也發表過幾篇小說和現代詩,在香港算是小有文名了。當時的西西,主要是一位專欄作家,也是一位剛起步的小說家。...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"These essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration, inquiry, jokes, assignments, entreaties, prayers, and advice: honest reflections distilled from years of working in the theater. They offer candid accounts of what it is like to be a mother and an artist, along with descriptions of how Ruhl's children's dreams, jokes, and songs work themselves...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A collection of short essays by Feng Tang (1971–), a Chinese writer and entrepreneur. With the title literally meaning “It’s less likely to be dispersed by the wind in the universe”, the book includes 63 photographs and 9 Feng’s autographs.
我们通过身体和心灵,透过接触到的事物了解自己和这个世界。 人慢慢长大,喜欢略过本质看现象,一日茶,一夜酒,一部毫不掩饰的小说,一次没有目的的见面,一群不谈正经事的朋友,用美好的器物消磨必定留不住的时间。所谓本质一直就在那里,本一不二。...
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