Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without a book or play or monograph or film about the Brontës. Each generation has reimagined Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in ways that reflect changing visions—of the role of the woman writer or of sexuality or of the very concept of personality. Charlotte Brontë has been seen as domestic saint, as sex-starved hysteric, as ambitious literary...(展开全部)

Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without a book or play or monograph or film about the Brontës. Each generation has reimagined Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in ways that reflect changing visions—of the role of the woman writer or of sexuality or of the very concept of personality. Charlotte Brontë has been seen as domestic saint, as sex-starved hysteric, as ambitious literary...(展开全部)

Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without a book or play or monograph or film about the Brontës. Each generation has reimagined Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in ways that reflect changing visions—of the role of the woman writer or of sexuality or of the very concept of personality. Charlotte Brontë has been seen as domestic saint, as sex-starved hysteric, as ambitious literary...(展开全部)

This afterlife explores one of the great legends of literary history, beginning with Charlotte Bronte's first attempts to mould her own and her sisters' public image, and following the Brontes through their many reincarnations at the hands of their biographers.

Many years ago, the four children of the Brontë family – Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne – lived in a windswept house by the Yorkshire moors with their father. Although their lives were often filled with sadness and their world was only as large as the distance they could walk, their inner worlds were bound only by their imaginations. Hungry for stories, these children devo...(展开全部)

【The Little Books of the Little Brontës】 ✰英國文學巨擘——勃朗特姐妹的故事 很久以前，在一個荒原的房屋裡，住著四位喪母的勃朗特孩子 – 夏洛蒂、布倫威爾、艾蜜莉和安妮。他們的生活充滿悲傷，活動範圍也十分有限，但他們的內心無拘無束，由想像力構築而成。 喜愛閱讀的孩子，讀著小說、詩歌、歷史與寓言故事。有一天，當他們收到一組士兵玩具後，更激發了創作的靈感，開啟了製作袖珍書的熱情，這份熱情將伴隨他們一生。 《The Little Books of the Little Brontës》描述了想像力的力量、說故事的樂趣以及對書籍的熱愛。這本書會讓喜愛勃朗特姐妹的讀者著迷，也讓初次認識她們的人留下深刻印象。 ✰勃朗特姐妹： 夏洛蒂－代表作《簡愛》 艾蜜莉－代表作《咆哮山庄》 安妮－代表作《荒野莊園的房客》 ✰本書特色： ...(展开全部)

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly pos...(展开全部)

Joseph Campbell, the worlds foremost authority on mythology,and Bill Moyers, one of most distinguished journalists, offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit. Joseph Campbell explains to Bill Moyers in a six part series for television interview,how myths are our ties to the past, and how they help us understand ourselves and our world. Topics from modern marriage to virgi...(展开全部)

The author of the bestselling Hero With a Thousand Faces touches on subjects ranging from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, in an intriguing and entertaining attempt to explain our world.

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)