鲁迅原名周樟寿，字豫山，后改名周树人，字豫才，浙江绍兴人。少年时代在家塾学习诗书经传，喜欢野史杂录和民间绘画艺术。1898年就读于洋务派创办的南京江南水师学堂，数月后重考入江南陆师学堂附设的路矿学堂，开始接触新学。1902年到日本留学。4月入弘文学院，1904年4月结业，6月入仙台医学专门学校。这一时期开始参加各种民族民主革命活动，广泛涉猎西方近代科学文艺书刊。最早的一篇译述文章《斯巴达之魂》前半部分发表于l903年6月在日本出版的《浙江潮》第5期(后半部分载于第9期)；同年在东京出版了第一本翻译科幻小说《月界旅行》。1906年弃医学文，希望以文艺改造国民精神。筹办文艺杂志《新生》，未果，转而在《河南》杂志发表《人之历史》、《摩罗诗力说》、《文化偏重论》等重要论文。与周作人合译《域外小说集》第一集，1909年出版。1909年夏回国，先后在杭州浙江两级...(展开全部)

张贤亮，男，江苏盱眙县人，1936年12月生于南京。1955年中学毕业后至宁夏银川干部文化学校任教。1957年因在《延河》文学月刊上发表长诗《大风歌》而被列为右派，遂遭受劳教、管制、监禁达十几年，其间曾外逃流浪，讨饭度日。1979年9月获平反，1980年调至宁夏《朔方》文学杂志社任编辑，同年加入中国作家协会，1981年开始专业文学创作。曾任宁夏回族自治区文联副主席、主席，中国作家协会宁夏分会主席等职，并任六届政协全国委员会委员，中国作协主席团委员。受家庭影响，从小深受中国古典文学熏陶，中学时代开始广泛接触俄罗斯文学和法国文学作品，并尝试文学创作，曾写作发表了60余首诗歌。1979年重新执笔创作后，先后发表了短篇小说《邢老汉和狗的故事》、《灵与肉》、《肖尔布拉克》、《初吻》等；中篇小说《土牢情话》、《龙种》、《河的子孙》、《绿化树》、《浪漫的黑炮》、《...(展开全部)

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. AS they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the s...(展开全部)

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. AS they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the s...(展开全部)

Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen Miriamele as threats to their kingdom loom... The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger f...(展开全部)

"New York Times" bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties. Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, h...(展开全部)

In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival - first agains...(展开全部)

Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But in this age of magnificent truumph and barbaric cruelty, internal rebellion threatens the stability and survival of the mighty Republic. And an aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh co...(展开全部)

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty...(展开全部)

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a be autifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, a...(展开全部)