英文电子书

书名：This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World

作者：Eduardo Navarro

简介：We've become used to thinking of plants a

书名：Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World

作者：Caroline Criado Perez

简介：Every day, all over the world, women are making a positive difference to their li

书名：Practical English Language Teaching《儿童英语教学实用技巧》

作者：David Nunan

简介：Practical English Language Teaching offers a thorough, yet practical overv

In the late 1970s, disco dominated radio airwaves, much to the dismay of rock music fans. To boost attendance at Comiskey Park, the White Sox and Chicago DJ legend Steve Dahl collaborated to host Disco Demolition on July 12, 1979. Admission to the park wa

A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher.

Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such li

Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the S

Discusses the work of the French dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, focusing on the Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even) and his final assemblage, Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas.

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：By the Sea《海边》

简介：On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the In

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Paradise《天堂》

简介：Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the cor

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Dottie《多蒂》

简介：A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past

Dottie Badoura Fatma B

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Pilgrims Way《朝圣者之路》

简介：An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the hor

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Memory of Departure《离别的记忆》

简介：Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Desertion《沙漠》

简介：In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Admiring Silence《绝妙的沉默》

简介：A man escapes from his native Zanzibar to England. His furtive departure makes it unlikely that h

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：The Last Gift《最后的礼物》

简介：One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went ba

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Afterlives《死后》

简介：Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops;

作者：Abdulrazak Gurnah

书名：Gravel Heart《碎石之心》

简介：A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Paradis

'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But

What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes resp

Winner of the ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Book Award for Literature 2006

Literature and the literary have proved singularly resistant to definition. Derek Attridge argues that such resistance represents not a dead end, but a crucia

First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, c

The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire period

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in real

Joyce Effects is a collection of essays by a leading commentator on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He exam

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been

Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic for

This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory's new directions, this groundbreaking collection

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential figures in literary theory in the English-speaking world, yet much of his writing on literary texts and on the question of literature is not easily available in translation. Acts of Literature brings together

Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 161

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on

When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal some twenty years ago, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he certainly has succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the le

Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian is amongst the most challenging writers of the present era. He has probed the dynamics of Chinese and European literature and developed unique strategies for the writing of seventeen plays, two novels, a collection of short sto

Gao Xingjian's introduction to his sumptuous collection of watercolour art is a strongly worded manifesto, a rallying cry for a return to the art of painting.

The art world needs, he claims, to rediscover the simplicity, beauty and clarity of the

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent c

“Dylan remains the rare singer whose work is worth reading on the page. His words are consistently funny, alive to the sound of language, and of course appealingly cryptic.” —The New York Times Book Review

A new collection of Bob Dylan’s most essential

Forty-two classic songs from the one-and-only Bob Dylan. Includes: It Ain't Me Babe, Like A Rolling Stone, and Maggie's Farm. 

Most filmmakers, especially in the United States, have chosen not to upset their audiences. But since World War II, an alternative cinema has emerged on a significant scale, particularly in Europe and Latin America- a cinema that challenges rather than so

Almost all students have seen 2001, but virtually none understand its inheritance, its complexities, and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into producti