威廉•萨默塞特•毛姆(1874-1965)，英国小说家、剧作家、散文家、文艺评论家，20 世纪英国最重要、最知名的作家之一。毛姆一生著作甚丰，无论是小说、剧本、评论、随笔、游记还是回忆录都广受好评，代表作有《人性的枷锁》《月亮与六便士》《寻欢作乐》《刀锋》《面纱》等。他的小说机智、幽默，常在讥讽中潜藏对人性的怜悯与同情。 毛姆晚年享有很高的声誉。英国牛津大学和法国图卢兹大学分别授予他“文学荣誉博士”学位。1954 年，英国女王授予他勋爵爵位。

This is Somerset Maugham's fifth mature short story collection and, as he states in the preface to The Collected Edition in 1936, the last one which contains stories popularly known as "exotic". Originally published in 1933 by Heinemann, "Ah King" is another achievement of Maugham in the genre of the short story that leaves me breathless while reading it. All six stories it con...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

Small, mild-mannered Dr. Uzuki encounters a delirious gang-member with a gun-shot wound on his way home from his job at the University. The gentle doctor rises to the occasion and saves the man's life with command and vigor. The problem is that yakuza gang-member Nonami has sworn to make his savior his bride! Uzuki is terrified! What if Nonami were to discover that the 'saving ...(展开全部)

戴维·鲍尔达奇：美国《纽约时报》《出版人周刊》等权威媒体公认的畅销书作家，也是世界上最受欢迎的畅销书作家之一。 1996年以小说《绝对权力》在文学界名声大振。随后，作品被改编为电影，由伊斯特·伍德担任导演和主演。主要作品包括《黑日堡垒》《遗忘角》《记忆怪才》《职业杀手》《越狱者》等。戴维总共出版了30余部小说，均以不俗的口碑和优异的销量跻身国内外各大畅销书排行榜。他的小说被译为超过45种语言之多，在全球80多个国家和地区发行，全球销量1.1亿册销量。

弗兰克·迈考特爱尔兰裔美籍教师，作家。1930年生于纽约，4岁时举家迁往爱尔兰，在贫民窟度过悲惨的童年。13岁辍学，19岁重返美国，当过兵，做过码头工人。“家国不幸诗人幸”，迈考特为这句话作了最好的诠释。苦难童年没有消磨他的斗志，反而让他学会在挫折中成长，在灰烬中微笑。1996年，处女作、自传体小说《安琪拉的灰烬》出版，一举获得普利策文学奖、全美书评奖、洛杉矶时报图书奖、美国年度好书奖等，连续117周雄踞<纽约时报》畅销书榜。之后陆续推出《就是这里了》和《教书匠》，好评如潮，使一个“教书匠”誉满全球。 《教书匠》于2005年11月出版，一周内即登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜首，后迅速被译成20多种文字，受到全世界教师、学生和广大读者的普遍好评：“自传体故事中最真诚的作品”、“教师的《圣经》”、“每个学生需要至少熟读10遍的温馨文字”。 《教书匠》以一个个生...(展开全部)

An excellent, comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist who broke down the boundaries between photography and graphic design with his innovative techniques.

Falling Man, Don DeLillo’s magnificent, haunting novel about September 11, begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the altered lives of a few New Yorkers. First there is Keith, a lawyer who walks out of the rubble and back into the world of his estranged wife, Lianne, and their young son, Justin. In the weeks and mont...(展开全部)