Chinese Ceramics
Author : Jean Joseph Marquet de Vasselot
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Pottery
ISBN :
Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN :
Book Description
中国瓷器指南
Author : Cécile Beurdeley
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Porcelain
ISBN : 9780060103224
Book Description
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is a timeless guide to the art of living. Its central figure, the Master, lives in harmony with the Tao, the irreducible essence of the universe. Surrendering to it as the Master teaches, we feel whole. Emptying ourselves of judgment and desire, we discover the universal truths within - Without wanting, we find peace; if we let go of what we love, our love becomes present. Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translation of this age-old text has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Here, for the first time, it is illustrated with Chinese paintings selected by Asian art expert Dr. Stephen Little. The perfect depiction of plants, animals, and birds expresses harmony with nature, the principal teaching of the Tao; the mountainous landscapes are the heavenly home of the Tao. Each brushstroke is painted with precision, just as each word of Mitchell's translation speaks with unmatched power. This inspired translation, combined with the best images in Chinese art, will ensure that the Tao Te Ching continues to exert a profound influence into the next century.
Jewish American Literature
Author : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393048094
Book Description
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
I Remember
Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781910477854
Book Description
'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.
The Ubu Plays
Author : Jeff Goode
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874400519
Book Description
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178478656X
Book Description
Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.
Gadsby
Author : Ernest Vincent Wright
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Gadsby is a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. A fading fictitious city known as Branton Hills is rejuvenated due to the efforts of central character John Gadsby and a youth organizer. A humorous read!
Children of Clay
Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Sun and Moon Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : French fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
A portrait of French society in the first half of the century. The protagonists are the family of a man who made a fortune from wireless radio and the novel follows their intrigues, which are of great interest to their employees.
Impressions of Africa
Author : Raymond Roussel
Publisher : Calder Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714548586
Book Description
The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.
