Reading faster is something that many of us want and truly need to be able to do. While speed reading is an acquired skill which takes effort and regular practice, it is a skill which every reader c……続きを見る
著者:William H. Gass
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2018年11月06日
Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important ……続きを見る
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
Are you looking for simple ways to improve your reading without spending tons of money?
Everyone seems to be in a race to do as much with his or her time as possible these days. There always seems t……続きを見る
著者:William H. Sherman
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2010年11月24日
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue des……続きを見る
著者:William H. Gass
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年08月07日
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- a……続きを見る
著者:George Cotkin
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2012年09月17日
Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death-……続きを見る
著者:Herman Gollob
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2003年09月09日
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the dr……続きを見る
“Will inspire, inform, and delight those of any age who areengaged inーor byーthe arts.” ー The Horn Book
Renowned children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with twenty-one of the wor……続きを見る
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年03月30日
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out o……続きを見る
Décryptez Les Bonnes de Jean Genet avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir des Bonnes, la pièce incontournable du théâtre contemporain ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir su……続きを見る
The How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland. It includes a d……続きを見る
Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the val……続きを見る
"What children's book changed the way you see the world?"
Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the bo……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2014年01月28日
Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country’s ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into ……続きを見る
著者:Fred Lewis Pattee
出版社: D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY
発売日: 2014年02月14日
A History of American Literature Since 1870
It has been our object to determine this new period and to study its distinguishing characteristics. We have divided the literary history of the century i……続きを見る
Décryptez Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles de Lewis Carroll avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir des Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles, véritable classique d……続きを見る
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises ー these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books.
Told in lively and affectio……続きを見る
著者:Allan Hunter
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年08月01日
First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relati……続きを見る
著者:Elif Batuman
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2010年02月16日
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devotedーAbsurdly! Melancholica……続きを見る
著者:Meryle Secrest
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年06月08日
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”ーThe New York Times), writ……続きを見る
著者:Frances Wilson
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年07月15日
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped ……続きを見る
著者:Jane Hirshfield
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年03月17日
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist
“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and……続きを見る
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recomme……続きを見る
著者:Kristjana Gunnars
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2011年04月07日
At the beginning of a new writing projectーwhether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the c……続きを見る
Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this……続きを見る
Contents
The tomb of Keats -- Keats's Sonnet on blue -- Dinners and dishes -- Shakespeare on scenery -- 'Henry the Fourth' at Oxford -- A handbook to marriage -- To read or not to read -- The letter……続きを見る
著者:David Staines
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2010年10月30日
As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have ……続きを見る
Cette fiche de lecture sur Oubliez Adam Weinberger de Vincent Engel propose une analyse complète de l'oeuvre :
• un résumé d'Oubliez Adam Weinberger
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A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 is the most authoritative set of fiction book recommendations in the United States because it is a composite of the most notew……続きを見る