让•热内（Jean Genet 1910—1986），法国作家。出生后被遗弃，在教养院长大。早年流浪、偷窃、卖淫，多次被捕入狱。在狱中开始写作诗歌和小说，包括《死囚》、《鲜花圣母》、《小偷日记》等。作品被纪德、科克托等人发现，叹为天才，他们与萨特等数十位作家联名向法国总统请愿，要求终身赦免热内。出狱后，热内转入戏剧创作，代表作有《女仆》、《阳台》、《屏风》等，声誉鹊起。后参与社会运动，支持被压迫者的反抗，尤其是巴勒斯坦民族解放运动。

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations ...(展开全部)

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature i

"Singularly interesting and stimulating. . . . A passionate and original work of scholarship."—Richard Wollheim, Times Literary Supplement "With the publication [of Rembrandt's Enterprise], Svetlana Alpers has firmly established herself in the front ranks of art historians at work today. . . . The book is not a long one. Yet, there is more perceptive scholarship packed into i...(展开全部)

A sunny garden hums, buzzes, creeps and crawls with life. Lift the flaps and peep through the delicate laser-cut holes to discover a whole host of butterflies, birds and bees, caterpillars, squirrels, frogs and other garden wildlife. A delightful information book for the very young.

From Publishers Weekly This revised edition of a 1984 study is long on assertion and short on evidence. Dr. Samenow, a clinical psychologist, is legitimately disdainful of explanations of criminal behavior that blame everyone (society, family, violent television, etc.) but the criminal for his actions, but his counter-arguments will persuade few. He makes frequent sweeping gene...(展开全部)