杰伊?帕里尼（Jay Parini ），美国著名作家和文学研究专家，在小说、诗歌、传记和文学批评方面建树颇丰。写过列夫?托尔斯泰、赫尔曼?梅尔维尔、瓦尔特?本雅明等人的传记，被认为是在传记作品方面理论和实践并行创新的领军人物。 约翰?斯坦贝克（1902-1968），20世纪美国zui有影响力的作家之一。他的小说将写实风格与幻想风格有机地结合起来，对后来美国文学，尤其是西部文学的发展起了重大的影响。代表作品有小说《人鼠之间》《愤怒的葡萄》《月亮下去了》《珍珠》《伊甸之东》《烦恼的冬天》等。1939年以《愤怒的葡萄》获普利策奖，1962年凭借作品《人鼠之间》获得诺贝尔文学奖。 精彩书评

约翰?斯坦贝克（1902-1968），20世纪美国zui有影响力的作家之一。他的小说将写实风格与幻想风格有机地结合起来，对后来美国文学，尤其是西部文学的发展起了重大的影响。 作者通过大量资料（包括斯坦贝克的私人信件、日记、手稿以及对其亲友的采访），向读者展现了一位及其复杂和矛盾的斯坦贝克，他既渴望成功又害怕成功，既极度自信又极度担忧；在生活上饱受婚姻问题困扰，无法成为一位合格的丈夫和父亲。他的生活和他的作品一样，虽然没有复杂跌宕的情节，却也充满了精彩华美的颜色。

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profou...(展开全部)

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biog...(展开全部)

莉利亚·莫里茨·施瓦茨（Lilia Moritz Schwarcz），巴西圣保罗大学人类学教授，普林斯顿大学拉丁美洲研究所西班牙语和葡萄牙语语言和文化系客座教授，多部作品被译为英文。 埃洛伊萨·穆尔热尔·斯塔林（Heloisa Murgel Starling），巴西米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学教授。 熊芳华，湖北大学外国语学院讲师，该校巴西研究中心研究人员，译有《巴西的强国抱负》。

Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinge...(展开全部)

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemporary philosophy. Taking account of the most recent scholarship, Manfred Kuehn allows the reader to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure i...(展开全部)

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)