Born from intimate discussions with friends, these five meditations on death from poet-philosopher François Cheng examine the multiple ways the prospect of death significantly shapes life and is, in fact, what makes life meaningful and sacred. Written at the age of 84, in the twilight of life, these meditations each approach the human understanding of death from different yet i...(展开全部)

何塞•奥尔特加•伊•加塞特(1883-1955)，20世纪西班牙哲学家、思想家、文艺批评家、随笔作家。其作品涵盖存在主义、历史哲学、艺术理论、文学理论、对西班牙民族性的批判等方面。奥尔特加的著述在西语世界乃至20世纪西方思想史中占有重要地位。代表作有《大众的反叛》《堂吉诃德沉思录》《艺术的去人性化》等。 王军，北京大学西葡语系教授，主要从事西语国家文学研究。著作有《诗与思的激情对话》《二十世纪西班牙小说》《西班牙当代女性成长小说》。 蔡潇洁，文学博士，首都师范大学西班牙语系副教授，主要从事现当代西班牙文学与文化研究。

This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profo...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1963, this book was the first volume to be published in the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it he addresses fundamental questions about the nature of artistic achievement, the criteria of artistic value, and the role of language in understanding and interpreting images. These essays explore the problematic character of meta...(展开全部)

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile. The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an e...(展开全部)

A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news--the son of ...(展开全部)

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile. The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an e...(展开全部)

A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news--the son of ...(展开全部)

约翰·布德是欧内斯特·埃尔莫尔的笔名，侦探小说黄金时代代表作家。埃尔莫尔是侦探小说家协会的联合创始人，曾是一名剧作家和导演。