You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold. -- San Francisco Chronicle "Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession." -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Carver's most revealing book...This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like ...(展开全部)

You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold. -- San Francisco Chronicle "Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession." -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Carver's most revealing book...This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like ...(展开全部)

"Fires" is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems, many of them not collected elsewhere; and, seven stories, i...(展开全部)

雷蒙德•卡佛（Raymond Carver），海明威之后美国最伟大的短篇小说家，被尊为简约派文学典范。人生的前一半充满了苦难与失望。失业，酗酒，破产，妻离子散，友人背弃，坠入人生之谷底。晚年文学声名渐高，却罹患肺癌，五十岁便英年早逝。致力于描绘美国的蓝领生活，是写失败者的失败者，写酒鬼的酒鬼，生活的变质和走投无路后的无望，是其小说中的常态。作品风格和他自身经历密切相关，包括极其精简的遣词和冷硬的语言风格。

Introduction (by V. Holland) Part One. Stories Chapter 1. "The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 2. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Chapter 3. "The Canterville Ghost Chapter 4. "The Sphinx Without a Secret Chapter 5. "The Model Millionaire Chapter 6. "A House of Pomegranates Chapter 7. "The Young King Chapter 8. "The Birthday of the Infant Chapter 9. "The Fisherman and His Sou...(展开全部)

Introduction (by V. Holland) Part One. Stories Chapter 1. "The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 2. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Chapter 3. "The Canterville Ghost Chapter 4. "The Sphinx Without a Secret Chapter 5. "The Model Millionaire Chapter 6. "A House of Pomegranates Chapter 7. "The Young King Chapter 8. "The Birthday of the Infant Chapter 9. "The Fisherman and His Sou...(展开全部)

"Fires" consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of "Fires"...(展开全部)

"Fires" consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of "Fires"...(展开全部)

Book Description This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre. In it, Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson provide reliable texts of all Wilde's poems and poems in prose, including 21 never published in...(展开全部)

Book Description This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre. In it, Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson provide reliable texts of all Wilde's poems and poems in prose, including 21 never published in...(展开全部)