弗兰纳里•奥康纳（1925-1964），美国南方文学代表人物，与麦卡勒斯齐名的美国天才女作家，美国国家图书奖六十年唯一最佳小说奖得主，被公认为是继福克纳之后美国南方最杰出的作家，在世界文坛中影响巨大。 奥康纳出生于美国佐治亚州，1945 年毕业于佐治亚州女子学院，原本打算成为一位职业政治漫画家的她，在获得了州立大学提供的研究生奖学金之后，进入了著名的依阿华大学作家培训班，从此也将事业的重心转向了文学作品的创作。1946年，奥康纳在《音调》杂志上发表了人生的第一个短篇小说——《天竺葵》，并因此获得了莱因哈特（Rinehart）奖学金，之后她的创作便一发不可收拾，在一年之内写下了《理发师》《野猫》《警察》《火鸡》《火车》等多部短篇小说，并于1948年开始创作被后世奉为经典的长篇小说——《智血》。1950年，因被确诊患上红斑狼疮，奥康纳只得回到家乡农场静养...(展开全部)

弗兰纳里•奥康纳（1925-1964），美国南方文学代表人物，与麦卡勒斯齐名的美国天才女作家，美国国家图书奖六十年唯一最佳小说奖得主，被公认为是继福克纳之后美国南方最杰出的作家，在世界文坛中影响巨大。 奥康纳出生于美国佐治亚州，1945 年毕业于佐治亚州女子学院，原本打算成为一位职业政治漫画家的她，在获得了州立大学提供的研究生奖学金之后，进入了著名的依阿华大学作家培训班，从此也将事业的重心转向了文学作品的创作。1946年，奥康纳在《音调》杂志上发表了人生的第一个短篇小说——《天竺葵》，并因此获得了莱因哈特（Rinehart）奖学金，之后她的创作便一发不可收拾，在一年之内写下了《理发师》《野猫》《警察》《火鸡》《火车》等多部短篇小说，并于1948年开始创作被后世奉为经典的长篇小说——《智血》。1950年，因被确诊患上红斑狼疮，奥康纳只得回到家乡农场静养...(展开全部)

The title of the story refers to the philosophy of an obscure Jesuit theologian，Pierre Teilhard de Chardin。Teilhard offers a Catholic version of the science of evolution，theorizing that lower life forms evolved toward greater diversity and complexity，rising to the level of man，who exists at the midpoint between animal life and God。At this point，evolution continues — yet only on...(展开全部)

The title of the story refers to the philosophy of an obscure Jesuit theologian，Pierre Teilhard de Chardin。Teilhard offers a Catholic version of the science of evolution，theorizing that lower life forms evolved toward greater diversity and complexity，rising to the level of man，who exists at the midpoint between animal life and God。At this point，evolution continues — yet only on...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real" and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and tha...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses'. In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Rober...(展开全部)

Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves.[1] First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahe...(展开全部)

H.M. 斯彻（H. M Schey） 罗彻斯特理工学院数学与统计学专业教授。