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On the anniversary of her death, we honor the great soprano Maria Callas. Callas was commonly referred to as “La Divina,” and Leonard Bernstein, amazed by the range of her accomplishments, called her...
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View ArticleOn the Origin of Species, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The book that changed the worldOn the Origin of Species, an instant bestseller, drew both applause and fury, writesTim Radford Darwin's bulldog: Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist and...
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Guardian culture"I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the son of God."Charles Darwin letter repudiating the...
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我昨天看台灣演義的郭小莊 她的創作過程最值得思考 與林懷民 的創作生涯的比較很令人深思 「一抹春風百劫身,菱花空對海揚塵,縱然埋骨成灰燼,難遣人間未了情」,這是俞大綱老師一九七○年代在《王魁負桂英》的一段唱詞,傳頌一時。俞大綱全集三冊 (劇作卷 論述卷) 台北:幼獅 1987燈火下樓台 台北:聯經 1977...
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View ArticleEmily Dickinson: "My friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to...
Everyman's Library"My friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them."-- Emily Dickinson in a letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859)*Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The...
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View Article"The African Trilogy" By Chinua Achebe 支離破碎 (Things Fall Apart )
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy.”...“The...
View Article"The Mayor of Casterbridge" By Thomas Hardy
方寒星來信pointed out:「《成寒英語有聲書5-一語動人心》書中插圖」 其中,「(李振清博士)在師大英語系大二期間,因為勤讀英文小說,我逐漸領會到英美文學作品及其文字的優美,從而摹仿其文詞、句構、語意與意境。當時教小說選讀的是一位令我敬愛、英國文學造詣極深的翻譯名家,吳奚真教授。吳老師當年選讀哈代(Thomas Hardy)的名著《卡斯特橋市長》(The Mayor...
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【讀書好×果籽】寫手出書 爆政客語言偽術6,50626適中字型較大字型《The Speechwriter》一書揭露了美國政客與幕僚相處真實一面,作者認為只有信任下屬及指示清晰的老闆,寫手才可寫出令人讚嘆的演辭。朋友介紹看Barton Swaim新作《The Speechwriter:A Brief Education in...
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2015.9.18 與曹永洋學長談:新潮文庫中的Life of Johnson摘譯本早就可以丟掉,錯誤數百處。此篇是十幾年前的資訊。當時慎重考慮是否投入此書的全譯。沒想到十年一幌子就過去了。Everyman's LibrarySamuel Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England in 1709.“He had no settled...
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