The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

With an Introduction by Henry Williamson. 'Marvellous pictures of country sights in England. A volume to be read and re-read, and each time we think with a keener interest. Unsurpassed in power of observation and sympathy with natural objects by anything that has appeared since the days of Gilbert White' Daily News

生命由眾多美好事物組成，其中最棒的，就是飲食…… 《生命饗宴》以飲食為基調，搭配作者感人的文筆，以一年365天為範圍，每日一篇小品文章，將飲食融合在文學、旅遊、歷史、哲學、音樂、趣聞、生活感懷等主題之下。 這本精緻的散文作品裡，作者每天信手拈來一篇優美的文章，看似隨筆記下，卻蘊含著無窮美好的經驗與故事，行文間甚至可以隱約聽見餐廳刀叉碰撞的清脆聲響、鍋具在爐火上的滋滋聲音，以及略帶嘈雜的人聲、腳步聲、美食的香味和甜點。 此外，書中還記錄許多名人軼事，例如作家莫泊桑在世時最痛恨艾菲爾鐵塔的醜陋，因此天天到鐵塔底下去吃午餐，免得見到它。另外還包含了詩人拜倫的餐點祕密、英國皇室待客的菜餚、狄更斯《小氣財神(聖誕頌歌)》裡的聖誕大餐介紹、「鐵達尼」沈船前的最後晚餐等。內容包羅萬象，知識豐富又有趣。

A tour de force by one of Hungary's most interesting contemporary philosophers, this work outlines a phenomenological approach to some of the main topics of theoretical philosophy, such as meaning, sense, temporality, unity of life, narrative history, self-identity, and intersubjectivity, as well as an ethics of alterity. In his investigations, Leszlo Tengelyi's point of depart...(展开全部)

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, envir...(展开全部)

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The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, envir...(展开全部)