Audrey Truschke is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (2016).

In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings together some of the most important essays written on these themes in the past...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In Man and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behavior and culture. Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the se...(展开全部)

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature...

The emperor's personality is brought to life against a background rich with the varied cultures he united through Christianity

理查德•艾尔曼（Richard Ellmann，1918—1987）是二十世纪现代主义文学权威，尤其在爱尔兰文学研究方面堪称一代学术巨匠。他曾就学于耶鲁大学和都柏林圣三一学院，后在哈佛、耶鲁、牛津等名校任教与讲学。从1970年起，担任牛津大学哥德史密斯英语文学教授， 直至1984年荣休。艾尔曼一生治学严谨，著述精益求精，代表作有传记《叶芝：真人与假面》《乔伊斯传》和《王尔德传》，其中《乔伊斯传》获得1959年美国国家图书奖，《王尔德传》获得1989年普利策传记奖，在西方学界备受推崇。他的其他作品还有文学评论集《川流复始》《都柏林文学四杰》等，并编有《詹姆斯•乔伊斯书信集》《诺顿现代诗选》等。

The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.