Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author! Author! begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolv...(展开全部)

A new generation of mystery fans are trapped in a castle, and the author is dead. So begins a fair-play mystery novel uniting the detective revivals of Robin Stevens and Anthony Horowitz with impossible crimes worthy of John Dickson Carr and Christianna Brand. Dear Reader, You are invited to join me at grand Carver's Rest - the scene of my murder. I am the author of this dark t...(展开全部)

A new generation of mystery fans are trapped in a castle, and the author is dead. So begins a fair-play mystery novel uniting the detective revivals of Robin Stevens and Anthony Horowitz with impossible crimes worthy of John Dickson Carr and Christianna Brand. Dear Reader, You are invited to join me at grand Carver's Rest - the scene of my murder. I am the author of this dark t...(展开全部)

In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and al...(展开全部)

In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was ...(展开全部)

克利福德·格尔兹（Clifford Geertz,1926—2006），1926年生于美国加州，在俄亥俄州安蒂奥克学院学习文学和哲学，1950年在该校获哲学学士学位。之后进入哈佛大学，师从C.克拉克洪学习人类学并于1956年获得人类学博士学位。曾先后在芝加哥大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学部等著名学府讲学或担任教职。 作为象征人类学和解释人类学的代表人物，格尔兹以其在印度尼西亚和摩洛哥的田野工作为基础，对宗教、文化等领域的研究影响巨大，著有：《爪哇宗教》（1960）、《被信奉的伊斯兰教》（1968）、《文化的解释》（1973）、《尼加拉：19世纪巴厘剧场国家》（1980）、《地方性知识》（1983）、《论著与生活》（1988），《追寻事实》（1995）等，并先后获得了美国社会学会索罗金奖、美国人文－自然科学院社会科学奖、日本...(展开全部)

This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.

The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories-this is magic, that is technology-has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the ex...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", presents the playwright's views about the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. This play within a play chronicles six characters as they seek an author to tell their story, and to present their real lives on stage. But do their realities make better tales than fiction?.