埃德加·爱伦·坡————作者 （Edgar Allan Poe，1809—1849） 美国诗人、小说家、评论家，文学史上罕见的天才，其留世作品具有非凡的文学价值。他被世人尊为侦探小说的先驱、科幻小说的奠基人、悬念小说大师。他对宇宙和生命的思考近年来越来越受到学界的重视。美国文学史家、《诺顿美国文选》第2至8版主编妮娜·贝姆认为：“对于今天任何层次的读者，爱伦·坡的声誉都比他同时代的任何美国作家更为稳固，唯一的例外也许只有马克·吐温。” 曹明伦——译者 翻译家，北京大学博士，四川大学教授、博导，中国作协会员，中国译协理事，享受国务院特殊津贴专家。译有《爱伦·坡集》《弗罗斯特集》《威拉·凯瑟集》《莎士比亚十四行诗集》《司各特诗选》《培根随笔集》等。

Originally published in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe's "Eureka" stands as the single most important expression of the philosophic views on which all of his literary endeavours depend. Put in the context of Melville's "Moby Dick", Thoreau's "Walden", Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", and the music of Liszt and Wagner, it is an explosive, startlingly unconventional creation of the High Roman...(展开全部)

In this remarkable work, master story-teller Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) builds on known scientific truths to propound a universe governed by the immutable laws of attraction and repulsion, i.e., expansion and a return to unity. The irascible, vindictive God of the Old Testament and the Deists' Master Clockmaker are routed by Poe's pantheistic World Spirit who, through the forc...(展开全部)

This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a “eureka moment” when a dream of invention became a reality for the first time Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has...(展开全部)

Written only shortly before his death, Eureka is considered by many to be Poe’s masterpiece and the key to unlocking his entire writings. Its significance, in both literary and scientific worlds, cannot be underestimated. Turning his immense intellect and remarkable artistic flair to the most challenging concepts of all—that of the creation of the world, its continued existe...(展开全部)

Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer through to Shakespeare and Austen - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature's great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to m...(展开全部)

Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer through to Shakespeare and Austen - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature's great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to m...(展开全部)

《Hi如花》讲述了父母早亡的如花带着双胞胎弟弟“用力”地生活着，她既没有时间风花雪月，也没有时间为爱神伤，而是把全部的精力都用来赚取生活费、学费以及弟弟的医药费上。因此她被评为学校里“最伟大的推销员”，其“全年无休，童叟皆宜”的经商宗旨也得到了大多数人的认同。 《Hi如花》主人公她的名字虽然叫如花，可是生活却一点都没有对她绽放出如花的笑颜，她就像是一棵长在沙漠里的仙人掌。可是当文初出现后，所有人惊讶地发现，仙人掌竟然也会开花，而且是最美丽的花！

The fullest expression of the distinguished French philosopher's ideas about the meaning of life. In propounding his distinctive theory of evolution, Bergson considers nature and intelligence, examines mechanisms of thought and illusion, and presents a criticism of philosophical systems from those of the ancients to those of his 19th-century contemporaries.