Jottings Under Lamplight
Title | Jottings Under Lamplight PDF eBook |
Author | Xun Lu |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2017-09-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 067474425X |
Literature in Times of Revolution (1927) -- Miscellaneous Thoughts (1927) -- The Divergence of Art and Politics (1928) -- Literature and Revolution: A Reply (1928) -- An Overview of the Present State of New Literature (1929) -- A Glimpse at Shanghai Literature (1931) -- On the "Third Type of Person" (1932) -- The Most Artistic Country (1933) -- The Crisis of the Small Essay (1933) -- V. On Modern Culture -- Impromptu Reflections No. 48 (1919) -- Untitled (1922) -- What Happens after Nora Walks Out (1924) -- On Photography and Related Matters (1925) -- Modern History (1933) -- Lessons from the Movies (1933) -- Shanghai Children (1933) -- How to Train Wild Animals (1933) -- Toys (1934) -- The Glory to Come (1934) -- The Decline of the Western Suit (1934) -- Take-ism (1934) -- Ah Jin (1936) -- Written Deep into the Night (1936) -- Notes -- Lu Xun's Oeuvre -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index
The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature
Title | The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Murray Campbell |
Publisher | Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | GARDENING |
ISBN | 9780884024651 |
The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Featuring new and previously published translations, this anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
Title | The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China PDF eBook |
Author | Lu Xun |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 2009-10-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141194189 |
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.
_迅与中__代文_
Title | _迅与中__代文_ PDF eBook |
Author | __茵 |
Publisher | 清華大學出版社 |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 7302384940 |
_是清_大_外文系的__茵老_在__大_圣三一_院的博士_文。理_新,__犀利,_据__。且作者英_水平极好,文字典雅洗_。可以____迅研究之不足。
Haunting Paris
Title | Haunting Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Mamta Chaudhry |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525565388 |
Paris, 1989: Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover Julien’s possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched over by Julien’s ghost, his love for her powerful enough to draw him back to this world, though doomed now to remain a silent observer. Sylvie’s quest leads her deep into the secrets of Julien’s past, shedding new light on the dark days of Nazi-occupied Paris. A timeless story of love and loss, Haunting Paris matches emotional intensity with lyrical storytelling to explore grief, family secrets, and the undeniable power of memory.
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Title | Elizabeth and her German Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth von Arnim |
Publisher | Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2021-02-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8726552884 |
Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" was first published in 1898. It was instantly popular and has gone through numerous reprints ever since. This story is the main character Elizabeth’s diary, where she relates stories from her life, as she learns to tend to her garden. Whilst the novel has a strongly autobiographical tone, it is also very humorous and satirical, due to Elizabeth’s frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. She comments on the beauty of nature and shares her view on society, looking down on the frivolous fashions of her time and writing "I believe all needlework and dressmaking is of the devil, designed to keep women from study." The book is the first in a series about the same character. Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941), née Mary Annette Beauchamp, was a British novelist. Born in Australia, her family returned to England when she was three years old; and she was Katherine Mansfield’s cousin. She was first married to a Prussian aristocrat, the Graf von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and later to the philosopher Bertrand Russel’s older brother, Frank, whom she left a year later. She then had an affair with the publisher Alexander Reeves, a man thirty years her junior, and with H.G. Wells. Von Arnim moved a lot, living alternatively in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, before dying of influenza in South Carolina during the Second War. Elizabeth von Arnim was an active member of the European literary scene, and entertained many of her contemporaries in her Chalet Soleil in Switzerland. She even hired E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole as tutors for her five children. She is famous for her half-autobiographical, satirical novel "Elizabeth and her German Garden" (1898), as well as for "Vera" (1921), and "The Enchanted April" (1922).
Essays in Idleness
Title | Essays in Idleness PDF eBook |
Author | 吉田兼好 |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780231112550 |
The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.