Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa work...(展开全部)

The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers will have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form, twenty-six pieces on books and writing, all but one previously published. Stranger Shores o...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 厄尔·斯威夫特（Earl Swift），著名记者，2012年起任弗吉尼亚大学人文基金会研究员，已出版多本专著，曾撰写数百篇重要特稿，以有力的叙述和严谨的报道而闻名，其作品多次获得美国国家图书奖、美国国家杂志奖和普利策奖提名。 【译者简介】 周佳，北京大学印度语言文学专业博士，中国传媒大学博士后。研究兴趣包括南亚历史与文化、宗教人类学等，曾译《众神降临之前：在沉默中重现的印度河文明》等。 【审校人简介】 徐沐熙，哲学博士，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院副研究员，主要研究方向为中华优秀传统文化的现代化等。曾译《景德镇官窑瓷器考》，曾审校《日本自然观研究》等。

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's wor...(展开全部)