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At the center of The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written by the 16th century Spanish poet and mystic St John of the Cross. Consisting of eight stanzas, each of five lines, the poem outlines the journey in pursuit of divine union, within which the only source of light comes from the soul. This recording in English includes the poem itself and St John's two accompanying treatises (1584-1585), essentially commentaries, which offer line-by-line explanations of the poem. Many modern listeners have found guidance and consolation in this work.

Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey. Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1. Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota. Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist...and personal attorney...and historian...and geologist. John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean."

Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I’m Not Here to Give a Speech records key events throughout the author’s life, from a farewell to his classmates delivered when he was only 17 to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

私が初めて海外特派員になった1975年から、トランプ大統領の就任式を取材した2016年までの41年間に海外で取得し、手元に残った78枚の取材証。

Dive into the sharp and insightful mind of Charles Dickens with The Selected Journalism & Essays, a collection that showcases his unparalleled skill as a social critic, journalist, and essayist. From his early writings on urban poverty to his passionate commentary on politics, crime, and education, Dickens’ sharp observations remain as relevant today as they were in Victorian England.

La escritura de Juan José Saer ha sido reconocida por la crítica especializada como una de las más valiosas y renovadoras en el ámbito de la lengua española contemporánea. Para Saer, narrar, antes que nada, es delimitar un espacio y una voz. Con este libro vuelve al lugar donde sitúa su...

Immaginate di poter trascorrere un anno intero fianco a fianco con un vero genio, di osservarlo all’opera, lavorarci insieme e imparare quanto più potete sul suo modo di pensare, ragionare, organizzarsi, affrontare i problemi, superare le difficoltà, escogitare progetti, trovare soluzioni...

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.

Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What Is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good; for the improvement of humankind.

【カジサック、はじめての本】かつて若手人気ナンバーワンと言われた「キングコング」ボケ担当の梶原雄太。母子家庭で育ち、苦労ばかりの母親に楽をさせたくてデビュー。

'These beautiful essays, inspired by a life of exploring other cultures through the rituals of cooking and eating - and thinking about cooking and eating - are manna for the hungry listener.' A Times Audiobook of the Year 'One of her finest books yet.' Bee Wilson, the Sunday Times 'Diana Henry's...

A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on love and its transformative power—a stellar addition to Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. “I have also decided to stick with love for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to...

When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”

Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.

Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The essays included are: The Father: Woolf's ruminations of family and, particularly, the father within the works of Dostoyevsky. More Dostoyevsky: Further thoughts on Dostoyevsky's work, an author of whom she once wrote “It is directly obvious that he is the greatest writer ever born." In Cranford: A comedic exploration of Dostoyevsky's work where Woolf transplants the great master into English provincial life to explore the unique nature of his work and the English nature.

...Et toute ma sympathie complète aujourd'hui sur le mode nostalgique et gai, confidences et récits étroitement mêlés, ces premiers portraits. Françoise Sagan évoque le cinéma, Hollywood et Cinecittà, ainsi que Fellini ; mais aussi les stars mythiques que sont Ava Gardner ou Catherine Deneuve dont elle souligne l'humanité vraie. Comme dans le précédent volume – en plus d'un croquis inattendu de Gorbatchev – quelques textes autobiographiques jalonnent ce recueil de "souvenirs" qui entraînent le lecteur dans sa passion des chevaux ou dans le monde étrange des grands débats télévisés.

While in London in 1897, Mark Twain was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst to report for the San Francisco Examiner on the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne. Evoking historical detail reminiscent of passages in The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Twain compares the jubilee to his own original and imaginative account of the 1415 celebration following the English victory at Agincourt, and he also reflects on the rapid changes in the British Empire during the Victorian age.

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his...

TBSドラマ『半沢直樹』が社会現象と言えるほどの盛り上がりを見せました。最終回の瞬間最高視聴率46.7％、全回の平均視聴率でも42.2％という平成ドラマ史上No1となる数字（共に関東地区）を叩き出したことからも、盛り上がりの凄さがうかがえます。 ただ、盛り上がった半面、色々な疑問を持った人も多いはず。筆者自身、以下のような質問をちょくちょくされています。 「なぜこれほど盛り上がったのか？」 「ああいうサラリーマンは許されるのか？」 「衝撃のエンディングにはどういう意味があるのか？」 ええ、もちろんこれらは人事の範疇なので、すべて人事的に解説可能です。確かに作品としては純エンタメですが、半沢直樹を人事的に紐説けば、そこに現れるのは生々しいまでのリアルです。ファンはもちろんのこと、ドラマ未視聴という方も、そこから学べるものは大きいでしょう。(本文より)城繁幸の『サラリーマン・キャリアナビ』★出世と喧嘩の正しい作法はこちらから→https://yakan-hiko.com/joe.html

Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post.

In this engaging and erudite essay, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.

The sport of surfing has a mystique and allure that has transformed many of these icons into mythical figures. Surfer Stories brings them together in one definitive collection that will appeal to those who surf and those who don’t!

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

An updated version of Mark Twain's classic examination of James Fenimore Cooper's classic works.

ديوان مسامرات أبي حيان في حضرة الوزير ابن سعدان. فيه من طرائف العلم وأدب المجالس ما يشحذ الذهن ويقوي الفهم، ويمتّع الروح بمسائل الأدب والفلسفة والشعر وأخبار الناس. فيه حديث العقل والقلب، مزدان بجواهر الكلام وروائع النُكت والنوادر، مؤنس في الليل ممتمع بالنهار، صخب وعلم وأنس وإمتاع ومؤانسة

يجيب هذا الكتاب عن جمعٍ من الأسئلة شغلت الأدب المقارن منذ نشأته الأولى، مثل: ما الأدب المقارن؟ وما الأسس التي بني عليها؟ وما الممارسات التي تميزه؟ ومن هم أشهر أعلامه؟ وكيف تطور عبر القرون؟ وما المستقبل الذي ينتظره؟ وعبر تطوافنا بصفحاته، سنتعرف إلى ما أحدثه مصطلح «الأدب العالمي» من ثورة، وكيف أسهمت الحملات الاستعمارية -رغم شرورها- في إثراء حركة المقارنة بين اللغات والآداب، فضلاً عن الأثر الإيجابي الذي خلَّفه اكتشاف ألواح من القرن الخامس والعشرين قبل الميلاد تروي حكاية الطوفان على هذا الحقل. وسنقف -في الكتاب- على الطرائق التي تعاطى بها الأدب المقارن مع نظرية الأدب، وما جرى عليه من تطورات أسهمت في نقض «المركزية الأوروبية»، وإحلال أشكال جديدة من المقارنات، تُعنى بثقافات الأطراف، التي هُمشت لفترات طويلة. إن هذا الكتاب يضع الأدب المقارن في قلب الممارسة النقدية، ولا يرى مؤلِّفُه فارقاً بيِّناً بين المقارنة والقراءة.

私が初めて海外特派員になった1975年から、トランプ大統領の就任式を取材した2016年までの41年間に海外で取得し、手元に残った78枚の取材証。

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Las puertas de la percepción es un ensayo escrito por Aldous Huxley, publicado en 1954. En este trabajo, Huxley detalla sus experiencias al consumir la sustancia psicodélica mescalina. A lo largo del ensayo, reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la realidad, la conciencia y la percepción. Profundiza en cómo ciertas sustancias pueden alterar nuestra percepción del mundo, lo que le lleva a ponderar los límites entre el ser interno y la realidad externa.

2020年2月から3月のイタリア、ローマ。200万部のベストセラーと物理学博士号をもつ小説家、パオロ・ジョルダーノにもたらされた空白は、１冊の傑作を生みだした。