These informative, trade-book quality biographies trace the life of nine important American citizens from childhood to adulthood. They feature colorful photographs, maps, and charts, and connections to history, geography, civics, and economics. Glossaries and discussion questions as well as comparisons between the past and present day are also included.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.
Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2213.43 | Fiction literature | 8 April 2016
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Don Quixote - Cervantes
Here are two renditions of well-known novel, Don Quixote, by Cervantes. Both of them are highly reliable. The earlier translation by John Ormsby has a classic tinge, accompanied by Gustave Doré's fine illustrations, and of course takes you much more time to peruse (but the pleasure you get out of this engagement is surely worth it!). The second translation is a modern and more easily digestible one by Edith Grossman, which has been highly praised. This rendition is prefaced by prolific literary critic Harold Bloom
Due to the embedded illustrations in Ormsby's rendition, the size of the files is rather large.
