What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent sch……続きを見る
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From ……続きを見る
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Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary
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‘Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart’
Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most cele……続きを見る
"A winsome volume . . . in which the librarian Annie Spence writes letters to books she has loved, or not." ーNew York Times Book Review
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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collecti……続きを見る
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A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by au……続きを見る
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A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpieceーfrom the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye
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“Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” ー The New Republic
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著者：E. B. White
出版社： HarperCollins
発売日： 2014年02月25日
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著者：Elisa Gabbert
出版社： Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日： 2024年06月11日
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
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A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the HBO’s The Last of Us.
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Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullestーa lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to the tools of liter……続きを見る
著者：Marcel Reich-Ranicki
出版社： Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日： 2013年12月16日
Schon in seiner Schulzeit im Berlin der dreißiger Jahre hatte er ihre Bücher gelesen, bewundert und geliebt. Auf allen Etappen seines bewegten, dramatischen Lebens war er zu ihnen zurückgekehrt - st……続きを見る
著者：Alberto Manguel
出版社： Penguin Publishing Group
発売日： 2014年08月26日
A book for book lovers by a true lover of books!
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookーthat string of confused, alien ciphersーshivered into meaning, and at that moment……続きを見る
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This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provi……続きを見る
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