罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane，1976— ） 剑桥院士，他的研究和写作领域侧重于自然与文学的关系、二战之后的英美小说、当代诗歌和维多利亚时期文学等等。 他的“行走文学三部曲”展现了当代旅行写作新的走向和所能达到的高度。其中首部《心事如山》获得了“卫报首作奖”、“泰晤士报年度最佳青年作家奖”和“萨默赛特·毛姆奖”；第二部作品《荒野之境》获得或被提名有将近十个奖项，由BBC制成纪录片。《古道》2012年出版，广受好评，不断出现在各种“年度好书”的推介中，获得“塞缪尔·约翰逊奖”提名。2013年他受邀担任布克奖评委会主席，成为布克奖史上最年轻的评委会主席。 麦克法伦的散文机智博雅，精巧而不晦涩，《格兰塔》前主编弗里曼称他为当代最好的行走文学作家。

'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. That gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional resonance of books given and received - and how such gifts have shaped his own life.

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its respl...(展开全部)

埃兹拉•庞德是意象派运动主要发起人，英美现代诗坛的一位巨将。他谙熟古今，善于旁搜博采，撷取各国文明之长以为己用。在这本教导式的小书中，庞德遵循了“一切批评都是一种界说古典作家的尝试”，附以从经典中精心挑选的展示作品。结尾的“格律论”对于任何渴望读诗和写诗的人来说都是一篇富于启迪的论文。

Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda. This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world’s best literature. With cha...(展开全部)

Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda. This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world’s best literature. With cha...(展开全部)

The first plant enthusiasts to reach China found a wonderful array of unfamiliar garden plants that had been nurtured by Chinese gardeners for thousands of years. This is the story of the struggles, the daring and the dogged perseverance of those early collectors. Where would we be without magnolias, camellias, chrysanthemums, tree peonies, repeat-flowering roses, viburnums and...(展开全部)

朴泰均，1966年生，博士毕业于韩国国立首尔大学历史系，现任国立首尔大学国际大学院教授、韩国国际交流财团韩国学事业本部咨询委员等。曾任国立首尔大学国际韩国学研究所所长、和平统一研究院资料出版室室长、韩国统一部政策顾问等。曾多次赴欧美国家以及中国、日本等国访问研修，2007年赴美国哈佛大学燕京学社访问研究，并为该校师生讲授韩国近现代史。主要著作有《朝鲜战争：没有结束而应该结束的战争》《友邦与帝国：韩美关系的两个神话》《原型与变相：韩国经济开发计划的起源》《一起读东亚近现代史》等。 译者简介： 邢丽菊，哲学博士，现任复旦大学韩国研究中心副主任、教授。主要研究方向为韩国哲学与思想史、中韩传统文化比较等，出版专著和译著多部。 张柳雅，复旦大学韩语系本科，韩国首尔国立大学国际大学院硕士。研究方向为中国与朝鲜半岛关系、中国外交及韩国现代史等。

Badger is so old that he knows he will soon die. He tries to prepare his friends for this event, but he does die, they are still grief-stricken. Gradually they come to terms with their grief by remembering all the practical things Badger taught them, and so Badger lives on in his friends’ memories of him.

A paperback original, Bloom's stand–alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry––a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of ...(展开全部)