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This book is Volume I of a three volume book plus accompanying website, www.bookaboutbooks.com, which adds to subjects already in the book or presents some books and subjects not contained in the bo……続きを見る

A Century of Dystopia In A Century of Dystopia, author Steve Shahbazian looks at seven literary dystopian novels: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Nineteen Eighty-Four by Ge……続きを見る

A handbook in three volumes to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to try to understand the world we live in, about “big questions” and possible answers, about books and write……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bailey presents the five editing maxims you need to know to create a page-turner: • Cut to the chase • Stay in the character’s head • Leave out the waffle • Keep it simple • Trust your rea……続きを見る

The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to ……続きを見る

Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fet……続きを見る

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of How to Read Literature Like a Professor tells you what you need to knowーbefore or after you read Thomas C. Foster’s book. Crafted and edited ……続きを見る

Ce guide de lecture pratique offre un résumé et une analyse complète de L'Amant de Lady Chatterley de D. H. Lawrence. Il explore en profondeur l'intrigue, les personnages et les principaux thèmes du……続きを見る

Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé et une analyse complets de L’auberge de la Jamaïque de Daphne du Maurier. Il propose une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des ……続きを見る

This book is volume II of a planned three volume book plus supplementary website, www.bookabout books.com, which will present some books and subjects not contained in the books. A Book about Books d……続きを見る

¿No sabes cómo empezar un escrito? ¿Por qué hay que aplicar la gramática? ¿Cómo se hace un ensayo? Para escribir bien es necesario que las palabras expresen realmente lo que se quiere comunicar, con……続きを見る

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-t……続きを見る

A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of lite……続きを見る

Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fet……続きを見る

A Century of Dystopia – get the entire ebook series in one box set! In A Century of Dystopia, author Steve Shahbazian looks at seven literary dystopian novels: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Brave New Worl……続きを見る

Volume 3 – “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley Set five hundred years into the future, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents a series of contrasts: a world unlike our own that is also similar, a u……続きを見る

Volume 2 – “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin Written after the Russian Revolution, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopia depicts a world far in the future, so regimented that people have numbers instead of nam……続きを見る

Volume 5 – “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess Often seen through the prism of the film, Anthony Burgess’s dystopia is more than a graphic tale of youth ultra-violence. As the pendulum swings be……続きを見る

Volume 7 – “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood The most famous dystopia of recent times, The Handmaid’s Tale provides a female perspective: what Nineteen Eighty-Four might have looked like if J……続きを見る

Volume 4 – “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell Written in the shadow of World War Two, George Orwell’s bleak vision of the future is perhaps the most iconic dystopia; a nightmare world where tot……続きを見る

Volume 6 – “High Rise” by J.G. Ballard Set in an East London tower block, High Rise is a collective descent into barbarism. 2,000 well-to-do residents shed their civilised inhibitions as conventiona……続きを見る

Volume 8 – “Green and Pleasant Land” by Steve Shahbazian Influenced by the famous political dystopian novels of the 20th century, author Steve Shahbazian provides a commentary on the themes within h……続きを見る

The novel has lost its purpose, Joseph Bottum argues in this fascinating new look at the history of fiction. We have not transcended our need for what novels provide, but we have grown to distrust t……続きを見る

Algún cínico podrá decir que los libros son meras "láminas de árboles recubiertos con una vaca muerta". Nada de eso. A lo largo del tiempo el libro ha representado conocimiento, libertad, fantasía, ……続きを見る