Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" ("Los Angeles Times"), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ("Salon"), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" ("The New York Times Book Review"). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as "Time "magazine observed, her ...(展开全部)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Bilingual Edition -- German/English Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. (Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.) Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wrec...(展开全部)

Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places he has visited. His first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at a London publishing hous...(展开全部)

Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encount...(展开全部)

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

保罗·卡拉尼什 Paul Kalanithi，美国著名神经外科医生，作家。1977年生于亚利桑那州，获得斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，后于剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位,并以优异成绩从耶鲁大学医学院毕业，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的 研究室。在就任医生期间，保罗曾因其出色的研究成果，获得美国神经外科医生协会最高奖。 2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。2015年3月，37岁的保罗告别妻子和女儿，离开人世。 何雨珈，85后生人，自由译者，文字与影像的狂热追随者，一颗平常心，一双笨拙手，烹美食，做手工，只愿不辜负文字与生活。译有《再会，老北京》、《纸牌屋》等书。