本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)

Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney's translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" ( New York Times Book Review ). The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" ( The Observer ) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowled...(展开全部)

Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" captures the cadences, candour, wit an...(展开全部)

Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" captures the cadences, candour, wit an...(展开全部)

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates...(展开全部)

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a drag...(展开全部)

Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于新泽西的纽瓦克市，集小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演等多重身份于一身，被视为是美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。他1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作，甚至曾参加舞团的排练，只因为“观看男男女女在空间中移动让他充满了陶醉感”。 主要作品有小说《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《在地图结束的地方》、《命运之音》、《海怪》以及回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》等，曾获获法国美第奇文学奖，美国约翰·克林顿文学杰出贡献奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖，作品被翻译成30种文字，他也是每年冲击诺贝尔文学奖的有力人选之一。 他编剧并导演的电影作品有《烟》、《面有忧色》和《桥上的露露》，其中《烟》在1996年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖，并受邀成为1997年戛纳影展...(展开全部)