Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

Book Description Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the auth...(展开全部)

Book Description Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the auth...(展开全部)

Review "Reasonably priced, comprehensive edition with good selection of other writings."--Virginia Caris, George Washington University "I really like this edition because of the variety of Franklin's writings represented here. The affordability of this text is greatly appreciated by the students as well."--Lynn Searfoss, Purdue University --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

Review "Reasonably priced, comprehensive edition with good selection of other writings."--Virginia Caris, George Washington University "I really like this edition because of the variety of Franklin's writings represented here. The affordability of this text is greatly appreciated by the students as well."--Lynn Searfoss, Purdue University --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize...(展开全部)

JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize...(展开全部)

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the gen...(展开全部)

萨维娜·贝尔曼，墨西哥家喻户晓的剧作家、记者和电视节目主持人。1954年生于墨西哥城一个东欧犹太移民家庭，学生时代在伊比利亚美洲大学攻读心理学和墨西哥文学。 她的写作以幽默、讽刺性著称，除了深受家庭背景影响的犹太主题外，主要以女性观点出发，多方剖析诸如专制、暴力、歧视、偏见等两性之间纠结复杂的关系，也探讨人类与动物不同物种之间的关系。她创作的剧本曾四度荣获墨西哥国家编剧奖、胡安·路易斯·德·阿拉尔孔戏剧奖、新闻作品两度荣获墨西哥国家新闻奖。她编剧并制作的电影《后院》代表墨西哥参加2010年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖角逐。此外她还为目前两位墨西哥著名导演阿尔方索·卡隆（《潘神的迷宫》制片）、亚历杭德罗·G. 伊尼亚里图（《鸟人》导演，2015年奥斯卡最佳导演奖得主）分别创作了电影剧本《爱的历史》和《光》。 《在世界中心潜游的女孩》是萨维娜·贝尔曼在2010年创...(展开全部)