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- Pygmalion (3)
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- By George Bernard Shaw
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Finished on Oct 26, 2009
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- Northanger Abbey (49)
- (Penguin Popular Classics)
- By Jane Austen
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- A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
- By Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Finished on Oct 3, 2009
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- The Life of Galileo
- By Bertolt Brecht
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Finished on Oct 1, 2009
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- Death in Venice and Other Stories
- (Signet Classics)
- By Thomas Mann
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Finished on Sep 2, 2009
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- The Namesake (55)
- A Novel
- By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Finished on Aug 9, 2009
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- Orlando (12)
- a Biography (Oxford World's Classics)
- By Virginia Woolf
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Finished on Jul 30, 2009
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- Mansfield Park (61)
- (Oxford World's Classics)
- By James Kinaley, Jane Austen
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Finished on Jun 30, 2009
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- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- By Alain de Botton
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Finished on Jun 26, 2009
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- The Importance of Being Ernest
- By Oscar Wilde
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Finished on Jun 4, 2009
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- Our Man in Havana (9)
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- By Graham Greene
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Finished on May 9, 2009
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讀董橋《白描》中一篇講楊絳的文，才連到這本書來，切一段過來...
董橋在〈不全是為了享福〉篇中記載了張者和楊絳的問答，張者問：你們當年咋不走哇，楊絳答曰：「很多外國人不理解我們，認為愛國是政客的口號。政客的口號和我們老百姓的愛國心是兩回事。我們愛中國的文化，我們是文化人。」後來張者又問了：國內歷來的政治讓你們吃了不少苦，現在後悔嗎？楊答曰：「沒有什麼後悔的，人活著不一定全是為了享福。」董註曰：這才是人話。我讀著，也默默心中ditto。
要像楊絳這樣持守堅認一種文化血脈，需要他們那樣的風骨，孤山巍峨，又帶點傲岸，這點自負是要的，沒這點自尊，熬不過那些煉火冰霜的年頭。像我這 ... (continue)
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- Salome (1)
- By Oscar Wilde
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Finished on Apr 30, 2009
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希律王弒兄奪其婦希羅底亞，希羅底亞美麗的女兒莎樂美愛上了被補的先知施洗者約翰Jokanaan，約翰卻不睬她──”Daughter of Babylon/巴比倫之女”，他只願這麼稱她；被愛情焚燒的莎樂美在癲狂之際，為希律王獻舞，君心大悅的希律王遂許她一願，而沙樂美討了約翰的人頭…
王爾德的版本中，故事發生於一個晚上，在希律王宴請羅馬皇帝使者宴廳的露臺上。沙樂美很美，美得不祥，她出場未久，就已因擅令士兵提約翰來見她，而致使年輕的敘里亞人伏劍自盡。但如果莎樂美是惡魔的化身，邪惡卻愛上了潔身嚴苛如僧侶般的先知約翰，為什麼莎樂美愛上了約翰，我們不知道；不需要知道。我們只知，莎樂美像著魔般愛上 ... (continue)
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Oscar Wilde's mordant wit and sharp observation about (high) society & manners still ring true in our own social worlds - an indication of Wilde's satirical genius, or that human society & behaviours haven't changed all that much..
Plenty of lines that we'll still find funny today. Just to quo ... (continue)
Oscar Wilde's mordant wit and sharp observation about (high) society & manners still ring true in our own social worlds - an indication of Wilde's satirical genius, or that human society & behaviours haven't changed all that much..
Plenty of lines that we'll still find funny today. Just to quote a few:
Act One:
Gwendolen: Ah, that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.
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Jack: I am sick too death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we have a few fools left.
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Act Three
Lady Bracknell: Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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Lady Bracknell: I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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