WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legenda...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grap...(展开全部)

楊牧(1940- ) 本名王靖獻，花蓮人。 東海大學外文系畢業，在美國愛荷華大學取得藝術碩士學位，獲柏克萊加州大學比較文學博士學位，長期任教於西雅圖華盛頓大學。後來返台，在東華大學擔任人文社會學院院長，現為中研院文哲所所長。 創作甚豐的楊牧，從早期的「葉珊」時代就有詩集 《水之湄 》、《花季》，在浪漫抒情風格上形塑他的名聲。他的散文作品，也映照抒情婉約的文風。隨著人生閱歷的增進與世事觀照之增廣，在詩的書房裡的楊牧對現實與冥想更為深刻地觸探，形成一種講究語字鍛鍊的詩風。 透過詩與詩學交互碰觸，他在書房裡觀照現實世界，也把現實世界捕捉進書房裡。《瓶中稿》、《楊牧詩集》、《海岸七疊》、《有人》、《完整的寓言》，楊牧以詩集與文集構成他的文學風景。曾獲詩宗獎(1971)、吳三連文藝獎(1990)、國家文藝獎(2000)、紐曼華語文學獎(2013)等重要獎項。

作者： J.R.R. 托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien） 英国文豪，天才的语言学家，生于1892年1月3日，1925年开始担任牛津大学教授。他创作了一系列脍炙人口的中洲世界史诗，影响最为深远的是《霍比特人》和《魔戒》。这两部巨作被誉为当代奇幻作品的鼻祖。1972年3 月28日，托尔金获英国女王伊丽莎白二世颁发的大英帝国指挥官勋章。 托尔金于1973年9月2日在牛津逝世。托尔金死后，其作品声名未减，至今全球已畅销2.5亿余册，《魔戒》在英国Waterstones书店和第四频道合办的票选活动中被选为20世纪之书，被亚马逊网络书店票选为两千年以来最重要的书。 译者： 邓嘉宛，专职译者，英国纽卡斯尔大学社会语言学硕士。从事文学与基督教神学翻译工作二十年，译有《魔戒》《精灵宝钻》《胡林的子女》等四十余种作品。喜欢一个人有书有猫做伴的生活。 石中歌，资深托迷...(展开全部)

The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald's most recent novel, has been an international sensation. Its ten strange and beautiful chapters, with their curious archive of photographs, consider dreams and reality. A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, Sebald's home for more than twenty years, The Rings of Saturn explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past....(展开全部)