How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time - how to survive in this modern age.Selected from the book Teach us to Sit Still by Tim ParksVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series-Swimming by Roger DeakinMotherhood by Helen SimpsonWork by Joseph HellerLiberty by Virginia Woolf
本书记述了J.K.罗琳的家庭和童年、学生时代以及工作经历。书中还有对她的作品的评述,并附有4个附录。
J.K. Rowling discusses her life and work as a writer for children. An overview and bibliography of her work is also supplied.
So who is she, and where did her ideas come from? From a remarkable insider perspective Lindsey Fraser tells the amazing tale that began one day on a train, when Rowling had forgotten to pack a pen. . ."--Book flap.
From her birth in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England, to the stories about her favorite teachers, to the funny misunderstanding in her first fan letter, the life of the author of the Harry Potter books is revealed.
This story is that of a woman who does not forget those difficult years during which she wrote regardless of the lack of interest by publishers.
ROWLING, Joanne K., écrivain anglaise
The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Works of Aphra Behn contains seven volumes of Behn's Works as published by Pickering & Chatto 2000-2001.
Yet Jowett was far more than just a devoted college head : for some historians the whole reform period can be simply labelled “ The Age of Jowett ' because of his dominating influence in university circles . A contemporary of Pattison ...
Since F.W. Maitland's Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1907), there has been no volume of the letters written by this extraordinary and eminent Victorian.
Perceptive and hilarious, this is a portrait of a family, a city, a country and a continent going through enormous changes.