保罗•策兰（1920—1970），二十世纪下半叶以来在世界范围内产生广泛、重要影响的德语犹太诗人，他的一生经历了服苦役和流亡等许多苦难生涯。 1952，辗转定居于巴黎的策兰在西德出版诗集《罂粟与记忆》，其《死亡赋格》一诗在德语世界产生广泛影响，成为具有纪念碑性质的时代之诗。策兰获得了包括不莱梅奖、毕希纳奖在内的多种最重要的德语文学奖。60年代，策兰创作日趋深化、发展，又相继出版了《无人玫瑰》(1963)、《换气》（1967）、《线太阳群》（1968）等多部重要诗集。1970年4月20日，策兰因无法克服的精神创伤在巴黎投塞纳河自尽。 策兰的诗不仅在一般读者和诗人中产生影响，也受到了包括海德格尔、伽达默尔、阿多诺、哈贝马斯、波格勒、列维纳斯、德里达、布朗肖、拉巴尔特等在内的著名哲学家和思想家的特殊关注。在美国，著名评论家斯坦纳称策兰的诗为“德国诗歌（也许...(展开全部)

»Laß uns die Worte finden.« »Du warst, als ich dir begegnete, beides für mich: das Sinnliche und das Geistige.« Paul Celan an Ingeborg Bachmann Die Liebesbeziehung zwischen den beiden bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichtern nach 1945 beginnt im Wien der Nachkriegszeit. Bachmann studiert dort Philosophie, für Paul Celan ist Wien eine Zwischenstation. Im Mai 1948 lernen sie eina...(展开全部)

Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia and the family she was forced to leave behind. Desert Flower, her intimate and inspiring memoir, is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about the beauty of African life, t...(展开全部)

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

柯林·施伯龙（Colin Thubron），1939年出生于英国伦敦，“英国皇家文学学会”会员，著有《在俄罗斯人当中》（Among the Russians）、《长城之后》（Behind the Wall）等旅行文学作品。曾获霍桑顿奖（Hawthornden Prize）、托马斯·库克（Thomas Cook）旅行文学奖，1984年由图书经销协会（Book Marketing Council）提名为当代二十位最佳旅行作家之一。

The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, sc...(展开全部)

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Ch...(展开全部)

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Ch...(展开全部)