I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning...(展开全部)

玛姬·欧法洛（Maggie O’Farrell）,著名小说家，1972年出生于北爱尔兰。其首部作品《你走以后》（After You'd Gone）甫一出版即广受好评，并为其斩获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。随后，其凭借《我们之间的距离》（The Distance Between Us）荣获2005年毛姆奖，又凭借《牵手之初》（The Hand That First Held Mine）荣获2010年科斯塔小说奖；此后，其作品还曾两度入围该奖的短名单。2017年，其出版了自己的首部回忆录《我存在：十七段与死亡擦肩而过的经历》（I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death），该作品很快便荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书单榜首。其于2020年出版的小说《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）则为其赢得了当年的女性小说奖和美国国家书评人协...(展开全部)

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter wit...(展开全部)

In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of ...(展开全部)

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabar...(展开全部)

The Berlin Stories is a book comprising two short novels by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr. Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1946. The Berlin Stories was chosen as a TIME 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, John Erickson in this volume tells the vivid and compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans from Russian soil. Beginning with the destruction of the German Army at Stalingrad, he describes a campaign of almost unimaginable hardship and fighting that led to...(展开全部)

Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories. The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met. Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many differ...(展开全部)