Woolf: 493 books

Software is cut and dried – every button you press has a predictable effect – but qualitative analysis is open ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways. This contradiction is best resolved by separating analytic strategies – what you plan to do – from software tactics – how you plan to do...

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and...

**★  對文學書寫的重要啟發，了解吳爾芙其人特殊文學見解的代表性文集 ★「我走過沼澤說我就是我：而且必須遵循著此一道路，而非複製別的軌道。活著，就是我寫作的唯一正當理由。」 ★「誠如吳爾芙所見，這也是任何一個作家的志業：在擁擠的房間裡辨明自我，獨立出一個單一觀點，把這個觀點傳達給其他人。」――本書序言** 　　本書收錄了13篇吳爾芙的散文，散見吳爾芙1919年（37歲）到1940年（她58歲，臨終前一年）之間各時期的重要散文集。由英國小說家與吳爾芙重度書迷的喬安娜．卡文娜（Joanna...

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a...

Somewhere in England, just before the Second World War it is the day when the annual pageant is to be performed in the grounds of the house. The pageant is traditionally a celebration of English history, and is attended by the entire local community. The owner of the house is a widower. His sister Lucy,...

THIS IS HOW it all came about. Six or seven of us were sitting one day after tea. Some were gazing across the street into the windows of a milliner’s shop where the light still shone brightly upon scarlet feathers and golden slippers. Others were idly occupied in building little towers of sugar upon...

“To open a book is ever to go on a voyage of discovery. The anchor is up, and you are adrift on the unknown” (Edward Thomas); “No le pide nada a usted el cuerpo, querido lector. Pero ¿en dónde vive?” (Roberto Arlt); “It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those...

Clarissa Dalloway is begin vijftig, elegant en de perfecte gastvrouw, maar ze voelt zich oud en uitgerangeerd. Haar man is succesvol maar saai, en haar volwassen dochter heeft haar niet meer nodig. Op een dag komt ze haar voormalige aanbidder Peter tegen. Wat zou er van haar zijn geworden als ze dertig...

Pour l’homme, ses lèvres mobiles laissaient deviner que cette magie, c’était la pensée ; pour la femme, son regard fixé droit devant elle et comme pétrifié au-dessus du niveau normal montrait que c’était le chagrin. Seul le mépris de tout ce qui se trouvait sur son passage lui permettait...

On a blustery April afternoon in 1880, Colonel Abel Pargiter sits at the window of his club looking out over Piccadilly. Everyone in the street seems to have somewhere to go, some end in view. The colonel feels that there is nothing for him. At home, in their shabbily genteel house on Abercorn Terrace,...

Dark Reads have short chapters and very low word counts of roughly 600 each. These short, gripping stories are punctuated on every other page with bold, two-tone illustrations, which have a graphic novel feel to grab the interest of teenagers. Dark Reads are designed to appeal to readers with a very...

Meet history's game changers! This biography series is for kids who loved Who Was? and are ready for the next level. On July 20, 1969, the whole world was watching Neil Armstrong. He was the first person ever to set foot on the moon! But how did he achieve such an amazing feat? From a childhood...

Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through...

Software is cut-and-dried – every button you press has a predictable effect – but qualitative analysis is open-ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways. This contradiction is best resolved by separating analytic strategies – what you plan to do – from software tactics – how you plan to do...