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The 12 books you must stock. 31.07.08 | Jenny Holden Nielsen BookScan’s “evergreen” listing is arguably the most exclusive chart in bookselling history.

The 12 books you must stock

It is not a rundown of the biggest-selling books, although the titles do shift enormous quantities. No, it is a list of the books that week after week prove enduringly popular; those that for the past 13 years have managed to remain in Nielsen’s top 5,000, the chart that has been called the Total Consumer Market (TCM) since 2001. Out of just over 1.8 million different ISBNs that Nielsen BookScan has UK sales data for from the past 13 years, only 12 titles have appeared in every weekly top 5,000 titles chart. That is more than 650 weeks of solid, and often spectacular, sales. It is an eclectic chart that perhaps would surprise many publishers and readers. It is difficult to pin down an overriding pattern for the list. The Second World War (book series) Churchill's The Second World War first edition in 6 volumes Churchill's The Second World War 1960s paperback edition in 12 volumes The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill.

The Second World War (book series)

It was largely responsible for his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.[1] Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill".[2] Metafiction. Marcel Proust. Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).

Marcel Proust

It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. Louis Aragon. Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃], born Louis Andrieux (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982), was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Louis Aragon

Early life (1897-1939)[edit] Aragon was born and died in Paris. 馬塞爾·普魯斯特. 馬塞爾·普魯斯特(Marcel Proust,1871年7月10日-1922年11月18日),法國意識流作家,全名為瓦伦坦·路易·乔治·欧仁·馬塞爾·普魯斯特(Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust)。

馬塞爾·普魯斯特

约翰·拉斯金. Winston Churchill. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning of the First World War (1914).[1] It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–58, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition. Writing and publishing[edit] Charles Dickens. Günter Grass. Günter Grass's childhood home in Danzig, today's Gdańsk Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʀas]; born 16 October 1927) is a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Günter Grass

He is widely regarded as Germany's most famous living writer.[1][2][3][4] Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In 1945, he came to West Germany as a homeless refugee, though in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood. Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht (English: /brɛkt/[1][2][3] German: [ˈbɛɐ̯tɔlt ˈbʁɛçt] ( ); born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht ; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist.

Bertolt Brecht

A theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.[4] Life and career[edit] Bavaria (1898–1924)[edit] Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria (about 80 km or 50 mi north-west of Munich), to a devout Protestant mother and a Catholic father (who had been persuaded to have a Protestant wedding). When he was 16, the First World War broke out.

In July 1919, Brecht and Paula Banholzer (de) (who had begun a relationship in 1917) had a son, Frank. "[Brecht's] language is vivid without being deliberately poetic, symbolical without being over literary. Lists tagged 'book list' on Lists of Bests. Headhunter. Headhunter or head hunter may refer to: General use[edit] Headhunting, the practice of literally taking a person's head after killing themHeadhunter, an informal name for an employment recruiter, sometimes referred to as executive search Military[edit] Sports[edit] Video games[edit]

Headhunter

Alain Robbe-Grillet. Alain Robbe-Grillet (French: [a.lɛ̃ ʁɔb ɡʁi.jɛ]; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian). Biography[edit] Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest (Finistère, France) to a family of engineers and scientists. The Three Apples. The Three Apples (Arabic:التفاحات الثلاثة)is a story contained in the One Thousand and One Nights collection (also known as the "Arabian Nights"). It is a first level story, being told by Scheherazade herself, and contains one second level story, the Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí and his Son.

One Thousand and One Nights. One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah) is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.[1] The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان‎, lit. A Thousand Tales) which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.[2] Story within a story. Types of nested story[edit] Story within a story[edit] The inner stories are told either simply to entertain or more usually to act as an example to the other characters.

In either case the story often has symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer story. There is often some parallel between the two stories, and the fiction of the inner story is used to reveal the truth in the outer story. The literary device of stories within a story dates back to a device known as a frame story, when the outer story does not have much matter, and most of the bulk of the work consists of one or more complete stories told by one or more storytellers.

Frame story. A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc.) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it.

Origins[edit] Among earliest known frame stories are those preserved on the ancient Egyptian Papyrus Westcar. The use of a frame story in which a single narrative is set in the context of the telling of a story is also a technique with a long history, dating back at least to the beginning section of the Odyssey, in which the narrator Odysseus tells of his wandering in the court of King Alcinous. A set of stories[edit] Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is another good example of a book with multiple framed narratives. The Story of Film: An Odyssey. The series was broadcast in September 2011 on More4, the digital television service of UK broadcaster Channel 4. The Story of Film was also featured in its entirety at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February 2012.[1] It was broadcast in the United States on Turner Classic Movies beginning in September 2013.[3] List of episodes[edit] Each episode lists the film clips that are featured.[1][2][6][7] Episode 1 - Birth of the Cinema[edit] Introduction.

Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy. Dr. Michael Delahoyde Washington State University Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy After the middle of the 20th century, Alain Robbe-Grillet warned of the death of the novel if it could not progress beyond what he felt were essentially 19th-century features. He started writing novels that challenged or eliminated traditional narrative conventions in plot, setting, and character, and that offered innovations in point of view and time. This artistic movement is known as the nouveau roman or New Novel. Fall of Giants. Joseph Heller. The Flounder. 路易·阿拉贡. 啟蒙時代. 啟蒙時代或啟蒙運動(法语:Siècle des Lumières;英语:Age of Enlightenment),又稱理性時代(英语:Age of Reason)[1],是指在17世紀及18世紀歐美地區發生的一場知識及文化運動[2][3],該運動相信理性發展知識可以解決人類實存的基本問題[4]。 人類歷史從此展開在思潮、知識及媒體上的“启蒙”,開啟现代化和现代性的發展歴程[5]。 德意志哲學家康德以「敢於求知」(dare to know,拉丁语:Sapere aude)的启蒙精神來闡述人类的理性担当[6][7]。 他認為啟蒙運動是人類的最終解放時代,將人類意識從不成熟的無知和錯誤狀態中解放[8]。 在一般歷史時代分期上,文藝復興接續的是啟蒙運動時期。 啟蒙時代不同於過往以神學權威為主作為知識權威與傳統教條,而是相信理性並敢於求知,認為科學和藝術的知識的理性發展對可以改進人類生活[4][9]。

啟蒙時代後期,約18世紀末前後,浪漫主義接續並取代啟蒙運動思維成為19世紀的主流。