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Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western

Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western
As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002. (A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books? Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists

INTERVIEW DE KIM THUY - Actualité Livres Les éditions Liana Levi publient le premier roman de l'écrivain canadienne Kim Thuy. Un récit brillant sur l'exil et l'enracinement, la mémoire et la transmission. Un concentré de vie et d'histoire. C'est l'histoire d'une femme qui a mis quarante ans avant de s'asseoir pour écrire. Lire la critique de 'Ru'Pourquoi avoir mis quarante ans pour publier votre premier roman ? Au début c'était la course pour la survie. Ecrire en français s'est-il imposé à vous ? Je peux écrire, lire ou parler le vietnamien, mais je ne réfléchis pas dans cette langue. Pourquoi avoir choisi de travailler sur la notion d'enracinement et de déracinement ? Je n'avais pas l'ambition de publier ce livre. Est-ce également une façon de se réapproprier l'Histoire, de la rendre plus intime, plus humaine ? Exactement. Malgré les difficultés rencontrées, nulle trace d'amertume ou de colère dans ce récit de vie… On sort heureux de toutes ces épreuves. D'où vous vient cette indulgence, notamment envers les révolutionnaires ?

The Great Books List Borges' Book Selections: The Library of Babel and A Personal Library The Argentinian fiction writer, essayist, and librarian Jorge Luis Borges selected the following titles for two series, "The Library of Babel" and "A Personal Library." Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. If you don't like the selections in this list or the arrangement, take it up with the author(s). Why isn't my favorite author listed here? This list may not include your favorite author, but he or she may be on other Great Books lists. See the Great Books FAQ for more about the Great Books and these lists of them. The Library of Babel Jack London, The Concentric Deaths Jorge Luis Borges, August 25 1983 Gustav Meyrink, Cardinal Napellus Léon Bloy, Discourteous Tales Giovanni Papini, The Escaping Mirror Oscar Wilde, The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, The Guest at the Last Banquet Pedro de Alarcón, The Friend of Death Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener William Beckford, Vathek H. A Personal Library

Matt Rees's top 10 novels set in the Arab world | Books | guardi Matt Rees was born in Newport, Wales in 1967, and has lived in Jerusalem since 1996. As a journalist, Rees covered the Middle East for over a decade for the Scotsman, then Newsweek and from 2000 until 2006 as Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief. His first book was a non-fiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society, Cain's Field. He published the first novel featuring Palestinian detective Omar Yussef, The Bethlehem Murders, in 2007, which won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger award. The Saladin Murders and The Samaritan's Secret followed in 2008 and 2009. The Bethlehem Murders won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2008. Buy Matt Rees books from the Guardian bookshop "The Arab literary world and Western publishing don't cross over much. 1. A young Algerian on the make becomes disillusioned with westernised morality and joins a violent Islamist group. 2. Writers look for resonance. 3. Spain 1499. 4. The first of the Egyptian Nobel laureate's Cairo Trilogy. 5. 6. 7.

Arukiyomi » 1001 Books spreadsheet v3 Downloads of v3.3 and earlier versions have finished now, and the links below no longer go anywhere. Version 4 has been released. Check out the v4 page for more details. thanks for your interest Thanks to all of you and your feedback, I’m rolling out v3 of the spreadsheet today a month short of the spreadsheet’s 2nd anniversary. Wikipedia/Google Books hyperlinks: updated these where new information had become available.Amazon links: deleted these because, quite frankly, they bring in virtually nothing and clutter up the spreadsheet. I’ve just pipped the 200 mark at 205 books with 86 to be read. Just click the button you need below or right click and Save Target As…. Please note that if you can’t figure it out and want me to email you a copy, you’ll need to provide me with as much info as possible about why you can’t open the spreadsheet and what program, OS, browser etc you’re using before I’ll oblige. FAQs I’ve entered in all my r and tbr cells but the totals don’t change.

Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers Good Reading began as a list of college reading. It has since been much expanded to include significant works in literature, history, regional studies, humanities, social sciences, and science. At the front are four checklists of "101 Significant Books," "A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation," "A Short List of Books to Read Before Entering College," and "A Short List of Books to Read After Retirement." Frequently Asked Questions Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. Why isn't my favorite author listed here? This list may not include your favorite author, but he or she may be on other Great Books lists. See the Great Books FAQ for more about the Great Books and these lists of them. This page: 101 Significant Books | A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation | A Short List of Books to Read before Entering College | A Short List of Books to Read after Retirement 101 Significant Books Ancient Times Middle Ages and Renaissance 1. Drama:

Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Jacqueline Simpson “Almost running parallel with folklore for me is an interest not only in just the history of London but in the history of the development of the countryside.” Terry Pratchett How did this podcast come about? Sir Terry Pratchett and Dr Jacqueline Simpson met many years ago at a book signing in Worthing and have since worked together as co-authors. Jacqueline is a member of the Folklore Editorial Board and is also on the Committee of The Folklore Society, of which Sir Terry is a lifetime member. “I’m fascinated by the way folklore is entwined with truth in people’s lives” Terry Pratchett On 26th August 2010 at the Annual Discworld Convention in Birmingham, Sir Terry and Jacqueline sat down to record a discussion on the topic of folklore and its significance to them. Also present to record the discussion were Routledge representatives Katie Brown and Julie Sutton. Suggested Further Reading Win a signed copy of Folklore This competition has now closed. Contact us The Folklore Society

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