These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost...(展开全部)

It is likely that these journals will be regarded as one of [Kafka's] major literary works; his life and personality were perfectly suited to the diary form, and in these pages he reveals what he customarily hid from the world." -- New Yorker "What seems to hold [the diaries] together is a kind of ruthless honesty and self-awareness." -- New York Times Though Franz Kafka is o...(展开全部)

乔治•奥威尔（1903—1950），英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者和社会评论家，传世之作《一九八四》、《动物农场》脍炙人口，历久弥新，被誉为“一代英国人的冷峻良心”。 编者英国戏剧、传记学者，奥威尔研究专家彼得•戴维森（Peter Davison）。

Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein's lengthy itinerary consisted of stops in Hong Kong and Singapore, two brief stays in Chin...(展开全部)

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. This one-volume edition presents eleven diaries covering the period 1931–1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer up to his last literary notebook.

乔治·凯南（1904年—2005年），美国著名外交家、政治学家和历史学家，对苏联遏制政策始创人，两次荣获普利策奖和国家图书奖。1946年2月22日，任美国驻苏联代办期间，乔治·凯南向美国国务院发出著名的“长电报”，对苏联的内部社会和对外政策进行了深入分析，提出了最终被美国政府所采纳的长期对苏战略。 弗兰克·科斯蒂廖拉，美国康涅狄格大学冷战史教授，著有《罗斯福丧失盟友：个人政治如何促发冷战》《尴尬的领导权》《法国与美国：第二次世界大战以来的冷战联盟》等。