约翰•麦克阿瑟（John MacArthur），今日著名的圣经牧师之一，作家。他是美国加州太阳谷“恩典社区教会”的主任牧师，恩主学院及神学院院长，著名的翻译经讲道传道人。继他父亲杰克•麦克阿瑟博士之后, 约翰是他的家族中连续第五代的牧师。他还负责“赐你恩典”机构，该机构事工包括制作全球广播节目，以及文字、录音带、网络圣经教导，该节目广播遍及英语国家，每年约有八百万人聆听学习他讲道的录音带。 他是许多畅销书籍的作者，其中以“麦克阿瑟圣经研究”系列最为著名。所著的《麦克阿瑟新约注释》，内容深入浅出，不仅为牧师、传道人、圣经教师预备讲章必读，也深受信徒喜爱，作为每日灵修的辅助资料。麦克阿瑟著有三十多本新约各书卷之注释、讲道及牧养、辅导等书籍。其中所著《释经讲道再探》（Rediscovering Expository Preaching）曾经被列为美国《传道...(展开全部)

What do sleigh rides, snowmen, and slaughter have in common? The author of The Author is Dead welcomes you to a traditional country-house Christmas – snowed-in with a murderer and a miracle problem to solve. The murder at Whitefell Chimneys had an unimpeachable witness – with unbelievable testimony. The victim’s young daughter was adamant that Father Christmas had come down the...(展开全部)

狄更斯(1812-1870)，继莎士比亚之后对于世界文学影响最大的作家之一。其高超、富有节奏感的叙事方式，生动记录社会现实(英国维多利亚时代)的能力以及作品中积极倡导的人道主义精神，都是狄更斯的标志性特色。代表作包括《匹克威克外传》(1837)、《雾都孤儿》(又名《奥列弗·退斯特》1838)、《老古玩店》(1841)、《马丁·瞿述伟》(1844)、《大卫·科波菲尔》(1850)、《艰难时世》(1854)、《双城记》(1859)、《远大前程》(1861)等。从1843年到1848年间，狄更斯几乎在每年圣诞节都发表一个与节日有关的中篇小说，其中《圣诞颂歌》具有极其特殊的地位：书中的情节和人物在西方家喻户晓，一百多年来积聚的“人气”使其成为狄更斯的小说中最深入人心的一部。文学评论家认为，《圣诞颂歌》的发表是狄更斯的创作生涯中的重大转折点；而社会学家则相信，...(展开全部)

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, then practiced as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly. Her stories have won the Glamour Essay Contest and the Wabash Prize in Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including Vogu...(展开全部)

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, then practiced as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly. Her stories have won the Glamour Essay Contest and the Wabash Prize in Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including Vogu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)

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。

Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whisky to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before d...(展开全部)

Merry Christmas, everyone! "Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!" With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is a very special holiday experience. It is the one book that every...(展开全部)

杜鲁门·卡坡蒂（Truman Capote, 1924-1984），20世纪中叶美国最富传奇色彩的天才作家，在文坛和名流圈中都曾辉映一时，著有短篇小说集、长篇小说和剧本若干。少时习作以短篇小说起步，两度获欧·亨利奖。1966以长篇纪实小说《冷血》蜚声世界。《圣诞忆旧集》是其短篇小说代表作。