艾略特·列堡，曾担任国家精神卫生研究所劳动与精神健康研究中心的负责人。《泰利的街角》是作为列堡在美国天主教大学的博士论文而写作的。他还在1993年出版了《告诉他们我是谁》，这是一项有关美国无家可归妇女的研究。

金斯米.艾米斯是英国现代著名小说家和诗人，是英国五十年代中期“愤怒青年”中的重要之一。他于1922年4月出生于伦敦，1949年至1961年在威尔士的斯旺西大学担任英语讲师，1961年至1963年在剑桥大学担任评议员。其作品除《幸运的吉姆》外，还有长篇小说《那种莫名的感觉 》、《我喜欢在这里》、《找一个像你这样的姑娘》、《一个英国胖子》、《我现在就需要》和短篇小说集《我的敌人的敌人》；另有三步诗集和一系列的文学评论文章。艾斯米在其所有作品中，都显示出了一种驾驭语言的才能。他与同时代的其他英国作家一道，极力反对那种过分讲究文雅的传统的文学风格。他的最大艺术特点，是作品情节复杂，人物幽默，笔调极其风趣活泼，善于刻画人物的心理活动，善于运用夸张手法描写并嘲讽英国知识阶层的性格特色。

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice thing...(展开全部)

First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literat...(展开全部)

First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literat...(展开全部)

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Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent...(展开全部)

This sea tale par excellence evolved from a passage in The Moon and Sixpence , written twelve years earlier.