'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of t...(展开全部)

'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of t...(展开全部)

德博拉·利维，英国小说家、剧作家、诗人，英国皇家文学学会会员。小说曾三次入围布克奖，并入选弗兰克·奥康纳短篇小说奖和BBC国际短篇小说奖。《泰晤士报》评论她是“当代英国小说中最令人兴奋的声音之一”。她为皇家莎士比亚剧团写过多部剧本。 . 译者 | 步朝霞，北京航空航天大学外国语学院副教授，文学博士，毕业于南开大学，曾作为富布莱特学者赴美访学，入选北京高等学校“青年英才计划”，并作为高校青年骨干教师于北京大学中文系访学。多年来专注于文学作品的翻译，已完成逾百万字。主要出版译作有《哈里发的神殿：卡萨布兰卡的365天》《世界上第二强壮的人》《木星的卫星》《理智与情感》。

As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man esca...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why a...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do televi...(展开全部)

· 代表作《异类》《引爆点》中文版累计销量破百万册 · 畅销榜常客，屡屡创造书市神话， 人称“《纽约客》怪才” · 《纽约客》特约撰稿人，会讲故事的非虚构作家 2005 年，被《时代》周刊评为“全球影响力100 人”之一 2011 年，被授予加拿国民殊荣“加拿大勋章” 2011 年，被《快公司》誉为“21 世纪的彼得·德鲁克”

"Behemoth, or The Long Parliament" is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In "De Cive" (1642) and "Leviathan" (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. "Behemoth," completed around 1668 and not published un...(展开全部)