In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Pri...(展开全部)

The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New...(展开全部)

艾伦•麦克法兰（Alan Macfarlane, 1941— ） 英国历史学家、人类学家，剑桥大学国王学院终身院士，英国皇家历史学会院士，皇家人类学会院士，英国科学院欧洲科学院院士。他1941年出生于印度，在英国受教育，先后在牛津大学、伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）和伦敦大学东方和非洲研究学院（SOAS）学习历史和人类学，获博士学位。麦克法兰在喜马拉雅山区(尼泊尔和阿萨姆)有30年田野经验。他还是著名电视节目制作人，在著名的“第四频道”、“世界起飞的那一天”系列节目担任专家顾问。 麦克法兰关注现代世界诸起源及特性之比较研究，研究对象覆盖西欧、喜马拉雅地区和日本等三大文化区域。著有关于英国、尼泊尔、日本及中国人类学及历史研究专著20余部，被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文、日文、韩文、中文等多种文字在数十个国家出版。包括《英国个人主义的起源》《玻璃的世界》《给莉...(展开全部)

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amand...(展开全部)

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective ficti...(展开全部)

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amand...(展开全部)

In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and their public presence and role in society. The Socia...(展开全部)

Here Kristin Thompson 'defamiliarizes' the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible', she clearly demonstrates the flexibility of the neoformalist approach. She argues that critics often use cut-and -dried methods and choose films that easily fit those methods. Neoformalism, on the other hand, encourages the ...(展开全部)

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books—with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Twe...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 《Alice s Adventures in Wonderland(爱丽丝仙境历险记)》讲述了：This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to...(展开全部)