Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century b...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben，1942— ），意大利哲学家，当代最富影响力的思想家之一，代表作为“神圣人”系列。拜德雅已出阿甘本著作：《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》（“神圣人”Ⅱ，3）、《宁芙》、《奇遇》、《普尔奇内拉或献给孩童的嬉游曲》。 - 译者简介 - 尉光吉，中国人民大学哲学院博士研究生。出版有《不可言明的共通体》（与夏可君合译）、《艺术与诸众：论艺术的九封信》、《无尽的谈话》、《内在体验》等译著。

Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual considers these questions and many others in this lucid and imaginatively argued volume of essays, at the heart of which lies a philosophy of the virtual. The notion of the virtual has assumed a remarkable level of importance in recent years with the development of new technologies and the emergence of the Internet. Yet its precise o...(展开全部)

Created in 1945, yet published in this country for the very first time, The Moomins and the Great Flood offers an extraordinary glimpse into the creativity and imagination that launched the Moomin books. Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, meeting a little creature (an early Sniff) and the elegantly strange Tulippa al...(展开全部)

Created in 1945, yet published in this country for the very first time, The Moomins and the Great Flood offers an extraordinary glimpse into the creativity and imagination that launched the Moomin books. Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, meeting a little creature (an early Sniff) and the elegantly strange Tulippa al...(展开全部)

苏童，男，1963年生。1980年考入北京师范大学中文系。1983年开始发表小说，出版了中短篇小说集《妻妾成群》、《伤心的舞蹈》、《妇女乐园》、《红粉》等，长篇小说《米》《我的帝王生涯》、《武则天》、《城北地带》等。小说《米》《红粉》先后被搬上银幕，《妻妾成群》被张艺谋改编成《大红灯笼高高挂》获得威尼斯电影节大奖，《妇女生活》改编为电影《茉莉花开》后，获得了上海国际电影节金奖。现任江苏作协副主席，为中国当代文学先锋代表作家之一，多部作品翻译成英、法、德、意等各种文字。

Duckworth are proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare. The long-lost play surfaces in Phillips's new novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the play's first printing. Arthur and his twin sister, Dana, maintained an unusual relationship with their gregarious father, a forger whose passion for the bard and fo...(展开全部)

An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy as Frye the literary aspect of our biblical heritage (New York Times Book Rev...(展开全部)

The idea that world politics can be understood in terms of a US dominated unipolarity became generally accepted during the 1990s. Following the September 11 attacks, however, US foreign policy took an imperial turn and many began to question the form, style and substance of US leadership at the start of the 21st Century. But why is the US behaving as if it lived in a wor...(展开全部)