费尔南多•佩索阿，出生于1888年6月13日，里斯本，是二十世纪初葡萄牙最伟大的诗人。他生前默默无名，只出版过一本书。在短短的四十七年生命里，他留下了两万五千多页未整理的手稿，迄今许多还在整理之中。佩索阿的写作世界有众多的“异名者”组成，每个化身都有自己独特的性格，生平经历，属于自己的风格各异的作品。整体上讲，佩索阿的诗源于人的内在不安，语言朴素，诗艺直追古罗马的贺拉斯等人，具有古典诗歌的质感，却写出了一种现代性的异教徒精神，思想性和语言艺术上，都具有经典性

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, re...(展开全部)

"A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous novelist; her older brother is brain-damaged but possesses a gift for music; and her mother's life is devoted to caring for them both. When her father is offered a visiting professorship in an American university, Ma-chan finds herself ...(展开全部)

Beethoven biographer Solomon here presents a revisionist biography of Mozart, which his publisher claims is the first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years. Certainly it is a major work in terms of heft and range. Solomon will have none of the "divine child" approach, limning instead a man growing up under the shadow of an impossibly demanding father who was at once overprote...(展开全部)

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: " ""All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.""Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--""The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;""on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.""--from "tributaries"...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul） 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、大卫•柯恩文学奖等一一收入囊中。1990年，被英女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。同年《半生》出版。

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vo...(展开全部)

乔弗里•梅耶斯（Jeffrey Meyers） 皇家文学学会会员，在世界各地演讲，并经常出现在电视节目中。他四十五部关于文学、电影与艺术的书，已被译成十一种语言，包括凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德、温德汉姆•刘易斯、海明威、洛威尔、劳伦斯、康拉德、坡、菲茨杰拉德、埃德蒙•威尔逊、弗洛斯特、鲍嘉、库珀、埃洛尔•弗林和西恩•弗林、萨默塞特•毛姆等人的传记，以及四位印象派画家。最近他被美国艺术文学院授予文学奖项，目前正在撰写萨缪尔•约翰逊的传记。