作者简介： 玛格丽特.阿特伍德发表了四十多部著作，包括小说、诗歌和评论集。其中，《使女的故事》、《猫眼》、《别名格蕾丝》和《羚羊与秧鸡》均被列入布克奖候选名单，2000年她凭借《盲人刺客》获得布克奖。 封 底 语： 每当我下决心少写一点儿，做些更健康的事，比如冰上舞蹈----某位嘴上抹了蜜的编辑就会给我打电话，给我一个无法拒绝的提议。因此，在某种意义上，这本书只是我缺少说“不”的能力的结果。 为什么该选集命名为《好奇的追寻》？“好奇”指我惯常的精神状态----换个不好听的词就是“爱管闲事”----也指一些文章的主题使我好奇。如爱丽丝一般，我越来越好奇，而世界则越来越奇怪。换一种说法，没有引起我的好奇心的东西，我是不太会写的。尽管“好奇”一词的份量很轻，我的“好奇心”也不懒散（我希望如此）。“激情”或许是更准确的描写，不过这也许会误导某些人，令一些穿...(展开全部)

Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"- Changing My Mind ...(展开全部)

How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does 'soulful' mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over w...(展开全部)

At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicit...(展开全部)

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In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker’s presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. The details of Machiavelli’s life never cease...(展开全部)

In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari emerged as the dominant force in sports cars in the world, creating speed machines that were unbeatable on the race track and moved one writer to say they 'felt dangerous just to sit in'. In America, the Ford Motor Company was quickly losing ground as the pre-eminent brand. Young Americans wanted speed over comfort, style over safety, and Ford was fall...(展开全部)

The humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront a...(展开全部)

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health care. Dan Bortolotti follows the volunteers at the for...(展开全部)