Labyrinths (1962) is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges. It includes Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Library of Babel, to name some of Borges' more famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and J...(展开全部)

Labyrinths (1962) is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges. It includes Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Library of Babel, to name some of Borges' more famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and J...(展开全部)

Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. “Many people have written about suburbia,” John Updike ...(展开全部)

Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. “Many people have written about suburbia,” John Updike ...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), one of the ...(展开全部)

伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基，1903年出生于俄国基辅的一个乌克兰犹太银行家家庭，“十月革命”后，她随家人移居巴黎，入读索邦大学。1929年，她凭借处女作小说《大卫·格德尔》迎来了文学上的成功。内米洛夫斯基活跃于二十世纪三十年代的巴黎文坛。然而，由于她的犹太身份，尽管她于1939年皈依天主教，仍无法获得法国国籍。第二次世界大战的巴黎大逃亡之后，她躲在法国东部一个小镇里，后遭法国宪兵逮捕，于1942年8月17日被杀害于奥维辛集中营。 2004年，内米洛夫斯基的长女德尼斯将母亲遗物中找到的未完成小说《法兰西组曲》整理出版，获得当年度法国雷诺多文学奖，这是该奖历史上第一次颁给一位去世作家。内米洛夫斯基和她的作品重新受到世界的关注。 《星期天》是内米洛夫斯基出版的唯一一部短篇小说集。这些创作于1934年至1942年间的短篇小说，像《法兰西组曲》一样，探究法国各阶层的...(展开全部)

Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories by the author of "Suite Francaise" mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels. Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.--"The Washington Post Book World."