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ERIC VOEGELIN：希特勒与德国人；城邦的世界《秩序与历史 第二卷》埃里克·沃格林
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The Remains of the Day； An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo...
伍迪艾倫 回到倫敦「遇見愛」In at number 94 in our 100 Best Novels series ... Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in postwar Japan, An Artist of the Floating World, "reflects on his career during the...
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CITIZENS: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Vintage Books & Anchor Books“Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, 'It’s too soon to tell.'”--from...
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禪學隨筆 (鈴木大拙)； "The Way of Zen" (1957) by Alan Watts
Philosopher, writer, and interpreter of Eastern philosophy, Alan Watts was born 101 years ago on this day in 1915...Alan Watts說這專頁讚· Alan Wilson Watts was born in Chislehurst, Kent, England on this day...
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A short story by P G Wodehouse
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir.”― from "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. WodehouseP.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was perhaps the most...
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"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins 月光石
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Denis Diderot ：《狄德罗文集》, 《狄德罗传》, 《狄德羅畫評選》,《懷疑論者的漫步：狄德羅文選》
French philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, France on this day in 1713."Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his...
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"Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures" by Daniel Defoe
“Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.”―from "Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange...
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馬克·吐溫 Autobiography of Mark Twain, The Gilded Age《康州美國佬在亞瑟王朝》、 《苦行记》 Roughing...
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Robert Finlay：鄭明萱譯《青花瓷的故事》The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World...
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Robert Graves: "Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" (1929), The White...
Vintage Books & Anchor Books"Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon...
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《台灣兒歌與民謠之旅》
劉美蓮李遠哲院長「序」(原刊:1999年中時副刊)1998年9月，我到公視錄影----與旅美作曲家周文中教授對談「藝術與科技」，休息時，初識劉美蓮女士，她提到本土音樂與兒歌的發展，因我離<兒歌>太久遠，隨口說:「台灣兒歌好少」，他回應一句話，讓我思索良久。她說:「台灣兒歌並不少、只是大人不再天真」。今知劉老師將調查研究數年的史料，加上管弦Live錄音的CD，出版《台灣兒歌與民謠之旅》，我...
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Jack London, The Call of the Wild, White Fang
John Griffith Chaney was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in 1876."He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint,...
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啟蒙札記：陳樂民
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. A Novel of India's Coming of Age Salman Rushdie
"Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me."--from "Midnight's Children" (1981) by Salman...
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Charles Perrault, Robin Hood
Charles Perrault, the "father of the fairy tale," was born on this day in 1628."She said to her, 'Grandmother, what great arms you have!''That's to embrace you the better, my child.''Grandmother, what...
View Article董橋： 英華沉浮錄(卷一~ 六)
令人訝異的是，在譯界卓著聲譽的Rendition（譯叢），在Dong Qiao的簡介中，把《英華浮沉錄》譯成The Ups and Downs of Britain and China。很明顯，譯的人連書的前序也不翻一翻，把「英華」當作國家名稱，「浮沉」自然就是「ups and downs」了，「英華浮沉」無端變了「英中盛衰」。稍稍了解書的內容，就知書名大概可譯成：Swimming in the...
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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books； 陳為廷的：All-TIME 100 Novels ；10 Greatest Books of...
HomeScuttlebuttDavid Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books Lincoln Michel January 11, 2016 Scuttlebutt13 CommentsThe world lost one of its greatest cultural figures today, as legendary musician David Bowie passed...
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亨德里克．房龍 《人類的故事》等等 Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf...
Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-Americanhistorian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author.過世後60年，還有人幫他寫傳Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist,...
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"Annals" by Tacitus
羅馬史家塔西佗（Tacitus）曾稱日耳曼人議事時都喝酒，以免有人撒謊。"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government."--from "Annals" by TacitusThe complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of the Roman Empire...
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