Oscar: a Tale of Norway, and Other Stories, Etc. [With Illustrations.]
Author : Oscar
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : Oscar
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1631490680
A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.
Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099584643
'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message- reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times
Author : Henry Gardiner ADAMS
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : STONE.
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : James Hain Friswell
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1887
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140882485X
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074758589X
A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love