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A primer on literature and how to read it. The easy-to-use, question-and-answer approach makes it the perfect gift for anyone. Students, English teachers, casual and avid readers will find the text ……続きを見る

Textual criticismーthe traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a textーis often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many pe……続きを見る

Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the e……続きを見る

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1908. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as……続きを見る

No centenário do nascimento do editor, DIGITAIS DE UM LEITOR é uma conversa de leitor para leitor em uma jornada pela literatura brasileira e estrangeira de muitas décadas. Autores que desapareceram……続きを見る

A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England’s greatest minds Dishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that ……続きを見る

G. K. Chesterton’s hilarious defense . . . of just about anything In this hodgepodge of early musings, a young G. K. Chesterton operates under the conceit that many objects in the human purviewーran……続きを見る

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. Th……続きを見る

"Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." --G.K.C. 続きを見る

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. 続きを見る

Mr. Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History” is a short book written by the British novelist H. G. Wells as a rebuttal of the criticism of historian Hilaire Belloc. In 1926, Belloc published his A……続きを見る

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1910. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as……続きを見る

This book is a critical study of ten postwar Japanese novels that focus on man's search for identity in the modern world. With the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to a Japanese author……続きを見る

The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less trave……続きを見る

I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers u……続きを見る

Ogni giorno l'umanità,si inventa nuove atroci torture,violenze,e sofferenze. Molte di queste avvengono in silenzio,nessuno ne parla,e nessuno vuole sentire. Le violenze sugli animali,in questo caso ……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

"101 Libros Imprescindibles Para Leer En Tu Vida" es una antología que congrega lo más selecto de la literatura universal, abarcando desde las raíces clásicas hasta los cánones modernos. Este recorr……続きを見る

In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years worth of reading other people’s books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it’s like to work behind-the-scenes in CanLi……続きを見る