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Published seven years after the first instalment, The Common Reader: Second Series explores the works of Thomas Hardy, Laurence Stern and George Eliot, elegantly dissecting the art of the biography and the very nature of reading itself. Again Woolf speaks from the perspective of the everyday reader, urging for an intuitive and curious approach to literature – one which allows for freedom and experimentation as opposed to academic rigour.

Championing the everyday, ‘common’ reader, Woolf emphasises the importance of reading for curiosity and interest, as opposed to academic analysis. In a delightfully conversational tone and with personal flair, Woolf explores the works of classical and contemporary authors alike; from Chaucer and Austen to Defoe and Montaigne. Effortlessly blending biography, criticism and philosophy, these brilliantly written essays showcase Woolf’s passion for literature, and particularly its ability to shape life as we know it.

Un breve, delicioso e imprescindible tratado lleno de sugerentes ideas para comprender qué es el arte, qué utilidad puede tener para nosotros, cómo creamos, cómo el arte abre mundos y cómo puede transformarnos para imaginar un futuro diferente. Podríamos decir que el arte es uno de los principales atributos del ser humano, como el lenguaje. Es fácil entender por qué el lenguaje es universal, pero no parece ser tan sencillo imaginar que el arte también lo es. El arte es una forma de hacer que los sentimientos sucedan.

Compilant les articles parus à l'époque, lisant avec avidité les dossiers d'archives, les correspondances, les télégrammes diplomatiques, conversant avec d'anciens capitaines et des veuves de marins, elle nous entraîne dans une passionnante reconstitution de la tragédie. Au fil des conversations et des recherches, c'est un peu de l'histoire bretonne qui affleure, où une modeste exploitation agricole, l'attente des femmes restées à terre et l'importance cruciale d'un petit club de foot tissent un pudique roman familial.

Ohnmacht ist zum politischen Grundgefühl unserer Zeit geworden. Eine Rhetorik des Hasses und der Menschenverachtung hat den politischen Diskurs gekapert. Unser Zusammenleben ist wieder von mehr Gewalt geprägt. Dabei wissen wir genau, dass es gerade jetzt auf aktiven Widerstand ankommt, auf gemeinschaftliches Handeln. In seinem neuen Buch zeigt Daniel Schreiber einen radikalen Weg auf: Die Rückbesinnung auf eine Idee der Liebe als politische Kraft.

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in fiction. “A towering figure...

「頂き女子」に迫った衝撃ノンフィクション　複数の男性から総額約１億５千万円を騙し取った上、そのマニュアルを販売し逮捕された「頂き女子りりちゃん」に迫った本作に大絶賛の声続々！

In this luminous essay, Thoreau calls us to reconsider how we view the past: not as a rigid ledger of facts, but as a shifting landscape of light and shadow. He asks us to read history “as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints…than by its groundwork and composition.”

Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...

Discover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclass, part memoir, featuring a new introduction by Dan Chaon. In Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray...

A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misun­derstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. “A groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault...Extensive, empathetic...

From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers—at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge...

文学は、私たちの人生や社会に対して、どんな意味があるのだろうか。──人間の生を真摯に見つめ、現代の問題群に挑み続ける小説家が、文学の力を根源から問う。

Cet essai chante la vie, la nature, l’amour. Olivier Dodane se sert des mots pour soulager les maux, les siens dû à un cancer, ceux de son ami de toujours, un glacier qui souffre du réchauffement climatique, de la nature qui l’entoure et qui révèle nos obsessions humaines. Cet ovni littéraire entre essai et poésie emmène le lecteur hors des sentiers battus pour mieux approcher nos âmes en délicatesse. Avec pudeur aussi, comme si près des cimes, la poésie permettait de mieux exprimer la beauté de la vie...de la ressentir avec plus de vigueur encore.

We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...

A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series...

70代になったら今までと同じことをしていてはいけない。注意深く、何かと決別しつつ新たなステージに向かわなくてはいけないーー。雑誌をめくりながら食事をしてはいけない。手元が怪しくなり服にシミができる。

40歳を過ぎた体重125キロの作家が、ひょんなことから「美容」と「健康」生活に目覚めたら……。肌はもちもちプルンプルン、30キロもやせ（リバウンドも）、そして、最後にはなんと結婚!?

とるにたらないけれど、かけがえのないものもの。輪ゴム、レモンしぼり器、ヨーグルト、石けん、りぼん…etc．　日常のなかの、ささやかだけど愛すべきものたちにまつわる記憶や思い。やわらかな言葉で綴る絶妙なショートエッセイ60編。

どんな些細な出来事も見逃さず、森羅万象にツッコミを入れる男・銀シャリ橋本。ツッコミひとつが、怒りも照れも笑いに変えるから──。書き下ろし「結婚」を含む全20編を収録した、初エッセイ集。相方・鰻の4コマ漫画も！