谢默斯·希尼（Seamus Heaney），1939—2013，爱尔兰著名诗人、评论家、翻译家，1995年诺贝尔文学奖得主。希尼出身于北爱尔兰伦敦德里郡一个天主教务农家庭，童年和少年时代都在乡村度过。1957年，他考入贝尔法斯特女王大学，主修英语语言文学。1762年，希尼的诗作首次公开发表。四年后，他的第壹部诗集《一个自然主义者之死》出版，得到评论界的广泛好评，并获得许多文学奖项；同年，他被母校聘为讲师，主讲现代英语文学。1772年，迫于北爱尔兰紧张局势，希尼辞去教职，移居爱尔兰共和国威克洛，成为职业作家。之后，曾任美国哈佛大学修辞学教授，英国牛津大学诗歌教授。1778年，希尼出版大型诗选《开垦地：诗选1966—1996》，是他一生主要诗歌成就的总结；2002年，三十年文选出版，是他一生主要诗学探求的总结。2013年，希尼在都柏林病逝，享年74岁，遗...(展开全部)

A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voic...(展开全部)

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (...(展开全部)

Two dogs find one bone and have difficulty deciding which of them owns it. "Here is a perfect combination of rollicking story and pictures that have strength, life and humor in every line."--"The Horn Book"

斯蒂芬‧金 Stephen King 一九四七年出生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因州州立大学学习英语文学，毕业后走上写作之路。自一九七四年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》后，迄今已著有四十多部长篇小说和两百多篇短篇小说。其所有作品均为全球畅销书，有超过百部影视作品取材自他的小说,其中最著名的当属《肖申克的救赎》。 一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇严重车祸，康复后立刻投入写作。二○○三年，获得美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”，其后又获得世界奇幻文学奖“终身成就奖”和美国推理作家协会“爱伦·坡奖”的“大师奖”。 在斯蒂芬‧金的众多作品中，以历时三十余年才完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔”系列（共八卷）最为壮观，也最受金迷推崇，书里的人物与情节，散见于斯蒂芬‧金的其他小说。他的最新作品包括《11/22/63》《暗夜无星》《穹顶之下》《乐园》和《长眠医生》等。 目前斯蒂...(展开全部)

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far—a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes. “Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who cre...(展开全部)

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far—a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes. “Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who cre...(展开全部)

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through...(展开全部)