威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family" Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility l...(展开全部)

From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master , and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family , Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift...(展开全部)

From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from t...(展开全部)

I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family", Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility ...(展开全部)

伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基，1903年出生于俄国基辅的一个乌克兰犹太银行家家庭，“十月革命”后，她随家人移居巴黎，入读索邦大学。1929年，她凭借处女作小说《大卫·格德尔》迎来了文学上的成功。内米洛夫斯基活跃于二十世纪三十年代的巴黎文坛。然而，由于她的犹太身份，尽管她于1939年皈依天主教，仍无法获得法国国籍。第二次世界大战的巴黎大逃亡之后，她躲在法国东部一个小镇里，后遭法国宪兵逮捕，于1942年8月17日被杀害于奥维辛集中营。 2004年，内米洛夫斯基的长女德尼斯将母亲遗物中找到的未完成小说《法兰西组曲》整理出版，获得当年度法国雷诺多文学奖，这是该奖历史上第一次颁给一位去世作家。内米洛夫斯基和她的作品重新受到世界的关注。 《星期天》是内米洛夫斯基出版的唯一一部短篇小说集。这些创作于1934年至1942年间的短篇小说，像《法兰西组曲》一样，探究法国各阶层的...(展开全部)

Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories by the author of "Suite Francaise" mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels. Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.--"The Washington Post Book World."

Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not a book about the theory of regression. It is about using regression to solve real problems of comparison, estimation, prediction, and causal inference. Unlike other books, it focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missin...(展开全部)