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Easy-to-use format features separate sections for each sport—including the first-ever soccer Rookie Card listing More than 25,000 players listed alphabetically within their sport More than 101,000 tot

This is the most comprehensive book in English dealing with tai chi's exotic "thirteen sword" form. The author reviews the history, fundamentals and applications of this form, and presents illustratio

Criminal genius runs in the family…Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles is impeccably neat,

The official art book for the animated movie Spies in Disguise.Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and d

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten u

In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adven

Coming soon to Netflix A TV tie-in edition to BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Benedict Bridgerton, in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring her charming, powerful Bridgerton family. Welcome to Benedict's story .. . This year's most sought-after invitation must surely be that of the Bridgerton masquerade ball, to be held Monday next.Will some fortunate young lady use the mystery of a masquerade night to snare one of the eligible bachelors? Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, May 1815Sophie Beckett never dreamt she would sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball - or that 'Prince Charming' would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie had been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But that night, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she felt like royalty. Yet she know

這是一個香港人在愛爾蘭的故事，也是一個香港人寫的愛爾蘭故事。《時差》是郭梓祺首次非結集舊文而成的書，內容由兩條線索穿起。一條線索寫愛爾蘭文化和歷史，由反抗英國殖民主義開始，寫到文化復興運動、自治運動、獨立戰、內戰及其餘波，觸及不同時代作家的取態。數百年爭取自治或獨立的經歷裡，出現過或文或武、或剛或柔的各種方法，失敗的佔多數，但可能不必只看成敗。愛爾蘭作家當中，出現過那麼多政治立場與風格大異的出色作家。Oscar Wilde父母原來是熱切的愛爾蘭民族主義者，以統計和寫作推動民族運動；W. B. Yeats早期鼓吹民族主義，以劇作和詩引導群眾抗英，晚年卻親近法西斯；J. M. Synge和Sean O’Casey的劇作在民族主義高潮下刻意不討好觀眾，一次又一次在國家劇院Abbey Theatre引起騷亂；Elizabeth Bowen是貴族，繼承莊園和大宅，二戰時更為英國任情報工作；Frank O’Connor在愛爾蘭內戰時參與IRA，被捕後幾乎被槍決，跟絕食傳統始終保持距離；Edna O’Brien六十年代在天主教籠罩、社會高壓的氣氛下，抵住大眾鄙視，寫出女性性壓抑，書成立即被禁；James Joyce一面對英國的殖民主義不以為然，一面對愛爾蘭如火如荼的民族主義充滿戒備和冷嘲，有時是自在地無聊，有時則以新方法和語言創造世界；Samuel Beckett老早離開愛爾蘭，在簡約和看來不著邊際的文字之間，埋下幾多現實政治；Seamus Heaney七十年代活在北愛問題風眼的貝爾法斯特，在處處炸彈與戒嚴之中，不得不權衡詩與現實的距離；Brian Friel以台上演員之間的無法溝通，側寫愛爾蘭共和國、北愛、英國的雞同鴨講。掛一漏萬。再到當代的Sally Rooney、John Banville、Claire Keegan、Paul Lynch都各具面目。另一條線索是郭梓祺一年來在愛爾蘭修讀愛爾蘭文學的個人經歷。書本知識外，更多是在愛爾蘭各地的遊歷，和有幸遇見的各色人物，包括有緣重遇並同住的前英文系老師夫婦、分別出生在北愛和愛爾蘭共和國的同學、關心同志議題的加泰隆尼亞人、博學而富喜劇感的希臘人、對種族歧視極為敏感的美國人、熟讀Beckett的活潑英國人等等，充滿思想碰撞，常在歷史與現實之間穿梭。《時差》在回港後寫成，也因寫作過程製造了時差，延續對愛爾蘭種種的學習，變成書中這百多個