It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them?and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the w...(展开全部)

It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them?and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the w...(展开全部)

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his...(展开全部)

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his...(展开全部)

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the ...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)

When May dies suddenly while gardening, Summer assumes she'll never see her beloved aunt again. But then Summer's Uncle Ob claims that May is on her way back--she has sent a sign from the spirit world.Summer isn't sure she believes in the spirit world, but her quirky classmate Cletus Underwood--who befriends Ob during his time of mourning--does. So at Cletus' suggestion, Ob and...(展开全部)

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their hometowns, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore th...(展开全部)

理查德·艾尔曼是二十世纪后半世纪西方文学界现代英语文学的主要权威之一。他就学于耶鲁大学和都柏林三一学院，曾在哈佛，耶鲁等美国许多著名大学任教。后任牛津大学英语文学讲座教授，直至1984年退休。艾尔曼一生著述编辑甚丰，他的《叶芝传》《乔伊斯传》《王尔德传》都受到西方术界的一致推崇，其中《乔伊斯传》初版之后，很快就获得普遍的赞赏，被誉为二十世纪最优秀的文学传记。 金隄，出生于1921年。1949年北京大学文科研究生毕业。曾任教于西南联大、南开大学等高校。曾任牛津大学、耶鲁大学等世界知名学府研究员或客座研究员。现任美国俄勒风大学英文系客座教授。主要学术著作有《论翻译》（与尤金·奈达合著英文著作）、《等效翻译探索》（论文集）等。主要译作有《尤利西斯》全译本等。曾获台湾读书人最佳书奖、中国作协鲁迅文学奖——全国优秀文学翻译彩虹奖（终身成就）、新闻出版署优秀外国...(展开全部)