Thompson's ( The Paper Bag Prince ) haunting picture book is both serious and witty. The deceptively simple story opens with the death of the young narrator's grandfather, a raffish sailor. Responding to the death, Titanic the parrot says, "Hello, sailor," a contrary comment that sets up the narrator's contrarily successful search for mythical Atlantis. It is all around, Grandf...(展开全部)

亚历克斯·米勒，澳大利亚当代重要作家。生于英国伦敦，十七岁随父母移居澳太利亚。1972年开始写作并在墨尔本大学教授写作课。已出版七部长篇小说，其中《浪子》（1992）和《石乡行》（2002）荣获澳大利亚最高文学奖“迈尔斯·富兰克林奖”。《浪子》将目光投向遥远东方的中国，出版后引起强烈反响，再获“英联邦作家奖”；《石乡行》以历史的高度、恢弘的气势深刻描写了澳大利亚原住民题材。

亚历克斯·米勒，澳大利亚当代重要作家。生于英国伦敦，十七岁随父母移居澳太利亚。1972年开始写作并在墨尔本大学教授写作课。已出版七部长篇小说，其中《浪子》（1992）和《石乡行》（2002）荣获澳大利亚最高文学奖“迈尔斯·富兰克林奖”。《浪子》将目光投向遥远东方的中国，出版后引起强烈反响，再获“英联邦作家奖”；《石乡行》以历史的高度、恢弘的气势深刻描写了澳大利亚原住民题材。

This new book by Paul Feyerbrand offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism the underlies Western ideals of 'progress' and 'development', whose damaging sociological and ecological consequences are now widely recognized. For all their variety of theme and occasion, the essays in Farewell to Reason share a consistent philosophical purpose. Whether discussing Greek...(展开全部)

钱德勒是世界小说史上最伟大的名字之一。他是艾略特、加谬、钱锺书、村上春树等文学大师最崇拜的小说家。被称为“文学大师崇拜的大师”。 他是世界上唯一一位被写入经典文学史册的侦探小说大师。他的作品被收录到《美国文库一》中。 他共创作了七部长篇小说和20部左右的短篇。钱德勒被誉为硬汉派侦探小说的灵魂，代表着硬汉派书写哲学的最高水平。他是美国推理家协会（MWA）票选150年侦探小说创作史上最优秀作家的第一名，他塑造的侦探菲利普•马洛被评为最有魅力的男人。在四十年代好莱坞男演员以能扮演菲利普•马洛为荣，其中以亨弗莱• 鲍嘉扮演的马洛最为成功。 钱德勒是电影史上最伟大的编剧，他为好莱坞缔造了激动人心的“黑色电影”。他与比利•怀尔德合作的《双重赔偿》被称为黑色电影的教科书。自1942年到1947年，他的4部小说6次被搬上银幕，连诺贝尔文学奖得主威廉•福克纳都只能给他...(展开全部)

A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929...

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...(展开全部)

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms . In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the ...(展开全部)

In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell—originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time—Emilio de Ípola contends that Althusser’s oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and at times contradictory projects. The first is the familiar Althusser, that of For Marx and Reading Capital. Symptomatically reading these canonical texts alongside...(展开全部)

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms . In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the ...(展开全部)