Tag: books

Laurence Sterne at archive.org

It is my pleasure to teach Laurence Sterne’s brilliant and incomparable A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (only the early sections) next week, so I looked it up in Archive.org – turns out they do have this 1774 edition of the work, in excellent condition, and I think that is amazing. I will try to update…

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United Daily article on Taichung’s Central Book Store 中央書局

The article itself wasn’t much, but I found the historical reference to Taichung’s Central Books to be of interest. Basically the millionaire guy who founded pchome.com and who is from Taichung, Jan Hung-tze (詹宏志), wants to organize a reading group at the old Central Book Store (中央書局) building. According to him,「中央書局是1927年台灣中部仕紳們共同成立的一個帶有強烈浪漫文化色彩的書局。」Err, so I guess in…

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氣球人 | Pubu – 電子書自由閱讀、自由出版

氣球人 | Pubu – 電子書自由閱讀、自由出版 出版社:奇幻基地,作者:陳浩基,耗時9年!繼《13.67》《筷:怪談競演奇物語》 華文推理鬼才 陳浩基 超越自我顛峰之作 ★奇幻X推理X懸疑X恐怖X黑色幽默 = 讓你欲罷不能的極速快感★ ★猜不透的…