A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Autor: Yoshida Kenko

Žánr: Učebnice > Cizí jazyky > Anglický jazyk > Zjednodušená četba > Penguin readers > Pearson English Active Readers

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, bookspread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom youhave never met...' Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, awoman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleetingpleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicatelyattuned to nature and the senses. Introducing Little BlackClassics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little BlackClassics celebrate the huge range and diversity of PenguinClassics, with books from around the world and across manycenturies. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian Londonto a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are storieslyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical andinspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.