Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.24 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2011
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A Dream of Red Mansions
Also known as Hong Lou Meng, this is arguably China's greatest literary masterpiece. A chronicle of a noble family in the eighteenth century; but the splendor of enchanting gardens, pleasure pavilions, and daily life of the most sophisticated refinements hides the realities of decay and self-destruction.
The publication is very old, but pretty good. Anyone who has once come into contact with this tutorial, fall in love with him forever! Listening and reading short dialogues not only help you work out the English intonation and pronunciation of individual sounds, but also take real pleasure. Humorous dialogues with a bright tone to remember easily. Many phrases from these conversations are immediately remembered: How can you measure pleasure? / Criticism! Nothing but criticism! / You have to heat it before you eat it / Zoos are nice! / You're getting thinner every minute and more. etc.
Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her - even defy the gods. Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear..
J.L. Borges - This Craft of Verse (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as building blocks of poetry. In this series of six long-forgotten lectures given at Harvard more than 40 years ago, he insists that reading (in English, primarily) gave him more pleasure than writing.
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire, and plundered the provinces for produce to be eaten, planted or displayed as novelties. At the same time the aesthetics of the city of Rome was being transferred to the provinces, establishing towns with public buildings, baths and the Latin language. With these attributes of civilisation came other trappings of Roman culture: lavish entertainments, elaborate dinner parties and vice.
