▼作者简介 肖恩•厄舍 Shaun Usher 信件与清单的爱好者，1978年出生于英国圣奥尔本斯，现居英国曼彻斯特。他于2009年建立了博客“信件陈列馆”（Letters of Note），以在线博物馆的形式收集各式各样的信件。厄舍的第一部作品于2013年出版，盘踞《周日泰晤士报》畅销榜六周，并售出了多国版权。在收集信件的过程中，厄舍也发现了很多有趣的清单。2011年，他建立了博客“清单陈列馆”（Lists of Note），展示收集到的各种有趣的清单。

▼作者简介 肖恩•厄舍 Shaun Usher 信件与清单的爱好者，1978年出生于英国圣奥尔本斯，现居英国曼彻斯特。他于2009年建立了博客“信件陈列馆”（Letters of Note），以在线博物馆的形式收集各式各样的信件。厄舍的第一部作品于2013年出版，盘踞《周日泰晤士报》畅销榜六周，并售出了多国版权。在收集信件的过程中，厄舍也发现了很多有趣的清单。2011年，他建立了博客“清单陈列馆”（Lists of Note），展示收集到的各种有趣的清单。

In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.

In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.

Umberto Eco, semiotician at the University of Bologna, is widely known as one of the finest living authors whose best-selling novels include The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.

【作者简介】 翁贝托·艾柯（Umberto Eco），意大利人，生于1932年，现居米兰，执教于博洛尼亚大学。他是享誉国际的作家、符号语言学权威、哲学家、历史学家、文学评论家和美学家。艾柯被誉为“当代达·芬奇” ，是百科全书式的学者，出版过140多部著作，横跨多个领域，都有经典性的建树。他在欧洲已成为知识和教养的象征，知识分子都以书架上放一本艾柯的书为荣。 【译者简介】 彭淮栋，生于1953年，台湾新竹县竹东镇人，东海大学外文系毕业，台湾大学外文研究所肄业，曾任出版公司编辑，现任报纸编译。译文以典雅著称。曾译《美的历史》《丑的历史》《无限的清单》《西方政治思想史》《现实意识》《格格不入》《论晚期风格》等数十部著作。

The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays never before published in English, discussing subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. Italo Calvino’s unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his wor...(展开全部)

The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays never before published in English, discussing subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. Italo Calvino’s unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his wor...(展开全部)

Celebrate the slyest trickster tales from around the world in a lavish volume that gives a well-loved story tradition its rightful due. Enter (carefully) the world of the tricksters, those wily creatures who lie their way out of trouble, cheat when they get a chance, and devise elaborate tricks to get what they want —- with delightfully unpredictable results. This truly diver...(展开全部)

Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa translates and adapts a range of West...(展开全部)