库尔特•冯内古特（Kurt Vonnegut，1922—2007） 20 世纪美国最重要、最有影响的黑色幽默文学代表作家。代表作有《猫的摇篮》、《五号屠场》、《冠军早餐》、《时震》、《囚鸟》等。他的作品抓住了他处身时代的情绪，并激发了一代人的想象。 冯内古特是出生在美国的犹太人，1940年考取康奈尔大学，主修化学。1944年珍珠港事件爆发，主张反战的他志愿参军，远赴欧洲战场。1945年遭德军俘虏，被囚禁在德累斯顿战俘营。冯内古特的文学创作，不少灵感正是来自于在战俘营的经历。战后冯内古特在芝加哥大学获得人类学硕士学位，后在哈佛大学任教。他从50年代起开始发表短篇小说，60年代起开始出版长篇。晚年的冯内古特在曼哈顿和纽约长岛的田园里颐养天年。2007 年3月在家中楼梯上不慎摔倒，同年4 月11 日，在曼哈顿逝世。

"Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido", a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In "Ed Luby's Key Club", a man finds himself in a Kaf...(展开全部)

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published in Kurt Vonnegut’s lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and s...(展开全部)

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post--World War II America-a world where squabbling couples,...(展开全部)

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]故事的主角是42位就读於香川县城岩中学3年B班的学生。他们靠著政府配给的指南针、基本食粮与饮水，还有随机配给的武器，与自己的同学互相残杀。在毫无人性的游戏规则之下，前一刻还是同班同学，下一刻便变成了敌人。面对「不是你死，就是我亡」的恐惧，几...

马克·L. 唐纳德（Mark L. Donald） 曾经的美军海豹突击队员兼医护兵。 他最初由美国海军陆战队侦察兵的身份参加并通过了海豹突击队的基本选拔训练BUD/S，从此成为这支世界上最精锐的特种作战部队的一员。 其后，马克通过海军内部的医师助理培训项目，且拿到了内布拉斯加大学的学士学位，并在“9.11事件”之后担任海豹突击队反恐特遣分队的队员兼医护人员，随队几度部署至海外一线战场。回国后，唐纳德因其在战场上的卓越表现获得海军十字勋章及银星勋章、铜心勋章、紫心勋章。 斯科特·麦克塔维什（Scott Mactavish） 作家、企业家、电影制片人，也是一名美国海军老兵。他拍摄过电影《上帝与国家：美军不为人知的故事》（God And Country: Untold Stories Of The American Military）。

As a SEAL and combat medic, Mark Donald served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield, "Battle Ready" dramatically immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-s...(展开全部)

马克·L. 唐纳德（Mark L. Donald） 曾经的美军海豹突击队员兼医护兵。 他最初由美国海军陆战队侦察兵的身份参加并通过了海豹突击队的基本选拔训练BUD/S，从此成为这支世界上最精锐的特种作战部队的一员。 其后，马克通过海军内部的医师助理培训项目，且拿到了内布拉斯加大学的学士学位，并在“9.11事件”之后担任海豹突击队反恐特遣分队的队员兼医护人员，随队几度部署至海外一线战场。回国后，唐纳德因其在战场上的卓越表现获得海军十字勋章及银星勋章、铜心勋章、紫心勋章。 斯科特·麦克塔维什（Scott Mactavish） 作家、企业家、电影制片人，也是一名美国海军老兵。他拍摄过电影《上帝与国家：美军不为人知的故事》（God And Country: Untold Stories Of The American Military）。

As a SEAL and combat medic, Mark Donald served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield, "Battle Ready" dramatically immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-s...(展开全部)

The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words ('On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ...'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid de...(展开全部)