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Whether you are a member of a reading group, or simply reading A Gentleman in Moscow for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Amor Towles' acclaimed new novel A Gentleman in Moscow, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary and historical context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses
...9) 心若淡定,便是从容
本书分为四辑,分别为:难得有闲,作者的生活遐思和从小事中生发的感悟;世相品评,写对世事、世人的看法;谈话的艺术,写人身的修养;人生如寄,对生命、时间流逝的感悟。
Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun inThe Hobbit andThe Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David Day reveals the myriad crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the saga's thrilling surface.
AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians,...
The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves...
Through his creativity, technical wizardry and talent for storytelling, Hayao Miyazaki has left an indelible mark on Japanese animation and world cinema. The animation master has been able to create magical worlds for a children's story or a darker tale. But he...
14) السيرة
في هذه المقدّمة الموجزة، تنظر هيرمايوني لي في أصول كتابة السيرة وتطوّرها. وتحاول الإجابة عن أسئلة محدّدة: لماذا يثير بعض الأشخاص والأحداث التاريخية كثيراً من الاهتمام؟ كيف يمكن مقارنة السير بالتاريخ والأعمال الروائية؟ هل يجب أن تكون السيرة صحيحة؟
...Communication, while essential, is almost impossible to maintain perfectly—a truism Lynne Sharon Schwartz demonstrates in this stunning essay collection. In one section, she discovers that one typo could completely derail a project while translating an Italian account of the Holocaust. In another...
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, “A Life with...
18) Vesper Flights
In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while...
In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of...
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