I had to put Knife by Salman Rushdie on this list as I read it recently as I started exploring books about different traumas. This book was a really powerful read for me as he explores his own trauma but also the trauma that his wife must have gone through. It was interesting in and...
the scholar D.F. McKenzie writes: “every book tells a story quite apart from that recounted by its text”. Of course, McKenzie means the historical and social story told by the font, typesetting, binding, paper and so on. So the story of the production ofShip of Theseuswould be its...
s stress on theaestheticintensity by which life should be lived. Like many in his generation, Wilde was determined to follow Pater’s urging “to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame.” But Wilde also delighted in affecting an aesthetic pose; this, combined with rooms at Oxford ...
诚悦 : tbc] — Every year the swallows return to Lila’s village. And every year Lila follows them on the ground, wondering what it would be like to join them in the sky. Imagine with Lila how beautiful a bird’s-eye view can be!
solid overview of their careers. As a group biography though, I think there needed to be a more central hook that linked the couples more coherently together, or at least some analysis that’s a little more groundbreaking than the revelation that creativity and ego usually put strain on ...
She can be seen as an accoutrement to the lives of those around her. I’ve chosen this book because it’s about how a seemingly average person is capable of extraordinary acts.” Read more... The best books on Being Average Eleanor Ross, Buy now Listen now The Buried Giant by ...
‘ books through an emphasis on the features of the page and pointing to the book as a whole. But a book can also be a self-conscious record of its own production – it can simply examine itself as a proposition – one laden with specific ideas about the ways a book can embody an ...
Fosse also wrote the novellas Morgon og kveld (2000; Morning and Evening), about a man who thinks back on his parents’ hope that he would become a fisherman, and Det er Ales (2004; Aliss at the Fire), a similar narrative to A Summer’s Day in which a woman relives the day 20 ...
不一定很满足您的需求哈，但我尽可能推荐与您需求描述最为相关的小说：《将军夫人要休夫》这本书是由...
It's a long book (just over 600 pages) but covers the entire history of the city, from its mythic beginnings, through to the present with sections on medieval times, the Renaissance, 'old regime' Venicee as well as modern and contemporary Venice. Read expert recommendations Buy now How ...