How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections be...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

杰奎琳·罗斯（Jacqueline Rose）任教于伦敦大学伯贝克学院，《伦敦评论》杂志的常驻作者，致力的领域包括女权主义、文学和心理分析等。 曾在伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院教授英文，曾在剑桥大学进行有关性别的专题研究。代表作：《黑暗时代的她们》《令人难忘的西尔维娅·普拉斯》《夜不能眠》以及小说《阿伯丁》。

Jacqueline Rose's heroines could not appear more different from each other: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Yet historically these women have a shared story to tell as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last ...(展开全部)

Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned re...(展开全部)

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)