Pure Pleasure

John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, and most recently, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books, described, by James Wood in the London Review of Books, as 'likeable, wise and often right . . . one feels an attractive sense of partisanship in Carey's writing, an alliance with the ordinary, the plain spoken, the unlettered, the sympathetic and the humane. Carey writes with an Orwellian attention to decency'. He is a regular critic on BBC2's Newsnight Review. He is also the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.

出版者:Faber & Faber

作者:John Carey

页数:184

出版时间:2000-9-18

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780571204489

图书标签:书单书评①不可不读literatureGW文學2012年4月

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In Pure Pleasure, John Carey, one of Britain's most respected literary critics, introduces us to what he believes are the fifty most enjoyable books of the twentieth century based on sheer reading pleasure. Mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Carey includes literary heavyweights like James Joyce, Thomas Mann, and T. S. Eliot, as well as more populist writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Kingsley Amis, and John Updike. Carey also discusses masterpieces like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, alongside lesser-known works like D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy and George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.In a series of intelligent and fast-moving essays -- each devoted to a single book -- Carey mixes criticism, biography, and cultural context about each selection with illuminations on the author's inspiration and how each work was written. The end result is a book that no one who is passionate about reading should be without.

读后感

在家无聊听广播，主播推荐的，后来买了一本，很不错，介绍了很多有意思的书，好多都没有中文的，就当读了个迷你版了 哈哈  

阅读应该是一件快乐的事情，作者的观点没什么可以争议的。 但是阅读也是一件很个人的事情，带着太多个体经验、好恶的味道。对作者来说这些书是令人愉悦的，但是对处于不同的文化语境下的人们，带着不同阅历背景的人们来说，未必如此。 如果您对现当代西方小说、诗歌、文化感兴...  

在家无聊听广播，主播推荐的，后来买了一本，很不错，介绍了很多有意思的书，好多都没有中文的，就当读了个迷你版了 哈哈  

摘自《新浪博客》 作者：王守仁 约翰•凯里是英国牛津大学默顿学院的英语教授、著名学者，撰写过关于英国小说家狄更斯、萨克雷和英国诗人多恩的学术专著，但使他扬名的是1992年出版的《知识分子与大众：文学知识界的傲慢与偏见，1880-1939》。该书站在大众立场，质疑...  

用户评价

他推荐的一些书不见得有名气但可能是很有意思的好书。每本书的书评短短的两页，简洁而切中要害。

what a delightful delightful book！

随着达观的作者阅读三十年跨度中让他感到纯粹读书美意的list

随着达观的作者阅读三十年跨度中让他感到纯粹读书美意的list

what a delightful delightful book！