The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchiseme...(展开全部)

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrastin...(展开全部)

The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchiseme...(展开全部)

When David Shannon was only five years old, he wrote and illustrated a story in which an unruly little boy breaks all of his mother's rules -- he jumps on the beds; he chews with his mouth open; he plays ball in the house. Any child who is tired of hearing his parents say "No " will readily identify with this boldly illustrated, comical story.

When David Shannon was only five years old, he wrote and illustrated a story in which an unruly little boy breaks all of his mother's rules -- he jumps on the beds; he chews with his mouth open; he plays ball in the house. Any child who is tired of hearing his parents say "No " will readily identify with this boldly illustrated, comical story.

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the most important European artist in a period of extraordinary upheaval. A participant in the French Revolution, he then witnessed the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A revolutionary in both art and life, David took painting away from the frivolity of the Rococo towards the dramatic moral force of neoclassicism. Passionate, intense, fie...(展开全部)

In this witty, candid, and revealing account of himself, which is in the tradition of Cellini's Autobiography, Hockney tells of his early years in art school; his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, during which he first came to public attention; his sojourn in California, which inspired his best-known paintings, drawings and prints; and his present phase in Paris, w...(展开全部)

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让·热内（1910-1986）法国作家。他的生平颇为传奇。幼时被父母遗弃，后沦落为小偷，青少年时期几乎全是在流浪、行窍、监狱中度过的。热内认为他的犯罪是社会环境造成的，但这个伪善的社会本身却不受任何惩罚，所以他决定与这个社会势不两立。他发现写作是一种更为有效的判逆方式，于是在监狱中创作了小说《鲜花圣母》、《玫瑰奇迹》。这两部作品以及热内的另一部小说《小偷日记》都带有相当程度的自传性。《鲜花圣母》、《玫瑰奇迹》是二十世纪法国文学中的奇葩，但在很长时间内被认为是一种“恶之花”。因为小说描写的都是最为忌讳的问题，如同性恋和监狱生活等，并把罪孽的心态提示得淋漓尽致。而在作者绚丽多彩的文笔中不难看出试图走向诗意的美丽的努力。萨特在让·热内的作品中发现了一种特别的，甚至可以说高尚的东西，即他对人的荒谬生活处境表示了毫无拘束的抗议。

让·热内（1910-1986）法国作家。他的生平颇为传奇。幼时被父母遗弃，后沦落为小偷，青少年时期几乎全是在流浪、行窍、监狱中度过的。热内认为他的犯罪是社会环境造成的，但这个伪善的社会本身却不受任何惩罚，所以他决定与这个社会势不两立。他发现写作是一种更为有效的判逆方式，于是在监狱中创作了小说《鲜花圣母》、《玫瑰奇迹》。这两部作品以及热内的另一部小说《小偷日记》都带有相当程度的自传性。《鲜花圣母》、《玫瑰奇迹》是二十世纪法国文学中的奇葩，但在很长时间内被认为是一种“恶之花”。因为小说描写的都是最为忌讳的问题，如同性恋和监狱生活等，并把罪孽的心态提示得淋漓尽致。而在作者绚丽多彩的文笔中不难看出试图走向诗意的美丽的努力。萨特在让·热内的作品中发现了一种特别的，甚至可以说高尚的东西，即他对人的荒谬生活处境表示了毫无拘束的抗议。