EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Floating Clouds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fumiko Hayashi
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780231136280
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Floating Clouds written by Fumiko Hayashi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tortured relationship between Yukiko and Tomioka, a minor official with the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, provides the dramatic center of the novel. Yukiko meets Tomioka while working as a typist for the Japanese ministry in Indochina, where they begin their affair. After the war, Tomioka returns to his wife but remains emotionally inscrutable to Yukiko, refusing to break off their relationship. Meanwhile, Yukiko must find her way in a radically changed Japan. When Yukiko and Tomioka's lives once again cross, the two set down a path shaped by their passion and sense of desperation."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Floating Clouds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fumiko Hayashi
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0231136293
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Floating Clouds written by Fumiko Hayashi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the years before, during, and after World War II, this classic of modern Japanese literature provides a rich cast of characters drawn from the back alleys of urban Japan and a rare portrait of Japanese colonialism and Japan's postwar experience from the perspective of a woman.

Book Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds

Download or read book Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds written by Vladimir Belogolovsky and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An inspiring record of many years of conversations by the author with various architects and others, with the aim being to challenge the reader through the presentation of diverse sources of inspiration - Provides a wealth of insight, opinions, and thoughts from 73 architects, 12 artists, 8 photographers, 4 critics, 2 designers, and 1 curator - Illustrated with important works deliberately selected by the author to match the vision of the architect or visionary - An important reference book containing the thoughts and visions of more than 100 architects, designers, artists, and other visionaries In this thought-provoking collection of interviews, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading architects and others, selecting one essential part to form a question-and-answer that would expose the complexity of their thinking process, while comparing and contrasting them to one another, thereby distilling more than 100 ideas. His engaging narrative captures the stories behind every project and every personality while exploring the important question -- what makes a building architecture? The selection of interviews gathers many answers but inevitably, also many more questions. This book represents people who work in diverse places culturally and climatically and came of age in very different times -- from the revolutionary 1960s to our own time, and as such forms an invaluable reference.

Book Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit

Download or read book Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit written by Ni Er Xi and published by Pagesetters. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insisting on collective and common memories, Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit champions a new national literature grounded in the histories of a restless tribe, we who have found a home away from home. Xi Ni Er’s poetry is alive with awareness of locality and origins – this awareness feeds the present, the future and the past in his work. Wide-ranging in their sweep, the poems go into historical and societal themes, reflecting deep concern and anxiety for the people, the happenings and the objects in a floating city, a transient life, and a pitiless history.

Book Floating Cloud  Ukigumo

Download or read book Floating Cloud Ukigumo written by Fumiko Hayashi and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory of Clouds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stéphane Audeguy
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780151014286
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Theory of Clouds written by Stéphane Audeguy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel tells the story of Akira Kumo, a retired couturier living in Paris, owner of the world's largest collection of books about clouds, and Virginie Latour, whom Kumo hires to help catalogue his library. While they work he tells her the story behind three figures in particular, all British, all obsessed by clouds: Luke Howard, a real-life Quaker who in 1802 wrote the first treatise classifying clouds (we still use it today); a painter named Carmichael, clearly based on John Constable, one of the most famous cloud painters of all time, and a fictional amateur meteorologist named Richard Abercrombie, who aspires to write the definitive book on cloud description, which would come to be known in cloud circles as the Abercrombie Protocol. Kumo sends Virginie Latour to London to buy the Protocol. By the end of the novel, we learn the Protocol's great secret; we understand what binds these men together; and and we learn that Kumo himself is a survivor of the Hiroshima blast, in whose cloud his family vanished.

Book Old Floating Cloud

Download or read book Old Floating Cloud written by Canxue and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas, Yellow mud street and Old floating cloud, by one of mainland China's most innovative contemporary writers. Translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang, with a foreword by Charlotte Innes. Can Xue's only other book in English is Dialogues in paradise, published in 1989 by Northwestern U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Have You Seen

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Thomson
  • Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0375711341
  • Pages : 1025 pages

Download or read book Have You Seen written by David Thomson and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including masterpieces, oddities, guilty pleasures, and classics (with just a few disasters)"--Cover.

Book Vietnam Travel Guide  Sapa   Floating Town in the Clouds

Download or read book Vietnam Travel Guide Sapa Floating Town in the Clouds written by Tripadvisorvietnam Books and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melodrama and Asian Cinema

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wimal Dissanayake
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1993-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780521414654
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Melodrama and Asian Cinema written by Wimal Dissanayake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.

Book American Journal of Agriculture and Science

Download or read book American Journal of Agriculture and Science written by Ebenezer Emmons and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agriculture of New York  Composition of the inorganic parts of vegetables

Download or read book Agriculture of New York Composition of the inorganic parts of vegetables written by Ebenezer Emmons and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agriculture of New York

Download or read book Agriculture of New York written by Ebenezer Emmons and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teaching Children Dance

Download or read book Teaching Children Dance written by Theresa Purcell Cone and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Children Dance, Third Edition, presents 31 ready-to-use lessons that bring fun and challenging dance experiences to elementary-aged children of all ability levels. The updated third edition includes 13 new learning experiences and two new chapters on teaching children with disabilities and making interdisciplinary connections.

Book Style and Narrative in Translations

Download or read book Style and Narrative in Translations written by Hiroko Cockerill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) is widely regarded as the founder of the modern Japanese novel. His novel Floating Clouds (1887-1889) was written in a colloquial narrative style that was unprecedented in Japanese literature, as was its negative hero. Futabatei was also a pioneer translator of Russian literature, translating works by Turgenev, Gogol, Tolstoy, Gorky and others - his translations had an enormous impact (perhaps even greater than his novels) on the development of Japanese literature. In this groundbreaking work, Hiroko Cockerill analyses the development of Futabatei's translation style and the influence of his work as a translator on his own writing. She takes us on a journey through Russian and Japanese literature, throwing light on the development of Japanese literary language, particularly in its use of verb forms to convey notions of tense and aspect that were embedded in European languages. Cockerill finds that Futabatei developed not one, but two distinctive styles, based on the influences of Turgenev and Gogol. While the influence of his translations from Turgenev was immediate and far-reaching, his more Gogolian translations are fascinating in their own right, and contemporary translators would do well to revisit them.

Book Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Download or read book Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited written by Catherine Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films. Including studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output. With a critical approach that highlights the "everydayness" of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

Book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: