“Books, let’s face it, are better than anything else.”
“让我们面对现实吧,书籍比其他任何东西都要好。”
Nick Hornby
尼克·霍恩比。
Turn the pages of The Literature Book to discover over 100 of the world’s most enthralling reads and the literary geniuses behind them.
翻开这本文学书籍的页面,你会发现100多本世界上最引人入胜的读物和它们背后的文学天才。
Storytelling is as old as humanity itself.
讲故事和人类本身一样古老。
Part of the Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The Literature Book introduces you to ancient classics from the Epic of Gilgamesh written 4,000 years ago, as well as the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy, and more, and 20th-century masterpieces, including Catch-22, Beloved, and On the Road.
作为《大创意简单解释》系列的一部分,这本文学书籍向你介绍了4000年前写的吉尔伽美什史诗中的古代经典,莎士比亚、伏尔泰、托尔斯泰等人的作品,以及20世纪的杰作,包括《第二十二条军规》、《宠儿》和《在路上》。
The perfect reference for your bookshelf, it answers myriad questions such as what is stream of consciousness, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, and what links the poetry of Wordsworth with that of TS Eliot.
作为你书架的完美参考,它回答了无数的问题,比如什么是意识流,谁写的《杀死一只知更鸟》,以及华兹华斯的诗歌与TS·艾略特的诗歌有什么联系。
Losing yourself in a great book transports you to another time and place, and The Literature Book sets each title in its social and political context.
沉浸在一本伟大的书中会把你带到另一个时间和地点,而文学书籍将每一本书都设置在它的社会和政治背景中。
It helps you appreciate, for example, how Dickens’ Bleak House paints a picture of deprivation in 19th-century England, or how Stalin’s climb to power was the backdrop for George Orwell’s 1984.
例如,它帮助你欣赏狄更斯的《荒凉山庄》如何描绘了19世纪英国的贫困景象,或者斯大林上台是乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell)1984年作品的背景。
With succinct plot summaries, graphics, and inspiring quotations, this is a must-have reference for literature students and the perfect gift for book-lovers everywhere.
这本书有简洁的情节总结、图表和振奋人心的语录,是文学专业学生的必备参考资料,也是各地书迷的完美礼物。