托瑪斯．埃羅伊．馬汀尼茲（Tomas Eloy Martinez） 1934出生於阿根廷，是一位新聞工作者、教授和得獎小說家，在阿根廷高壓統治時避居委內瑞拉，1982年起在美國工作與居住。他是當今拉丁美洲文學兩部經典名著《裴隆小說》（La novela de Peron, 1985）和《聖艾薇塔》（Santa Evita, 1995）的作者，該作品已被譯成三十六種語言，於七十多個國家發行。2002年，馬汀尼茲的作品El vuelo de la reina在西班牙馬德里獲得Alfaguara Prize。他的上一本小說Santa Evita曾獲2005國際曼布克獎提名。 目前定居美國，任教於紐澤西州的羅格斯大學，擔任該校拉丁美洲研究課程主任。

作者简介：阿尔伯特・贝茨・洛德（Albert Baters Lord，1912-1991），美国哈佛大学教授，文学教育家，南斯拉夫史诗和“口头文学”领域的著名学者。“帕里-洛德口头理论”（the Parry-Lord Oral Theory）的创立者之一。1959年起任哈佛大学“帕里口头文学资料馆”名誉馆长。主要著述有：《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚民歌》（1951年，与贝拉・巴尔托克合编），《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚英雄歌》（第1、2卷1952-54年出版，与拜纳姆合编；第3、4卷1975年出版），《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语初步》（1958年）、《故事的歌手》（1960年第1版，2000年第2版），《保加利亚语初步》（1962年，与拜纳姆合编），《保加利亚文学读本》（1968年），《史诗歌手与口头传统》（1991年）。其中《故事的歌手》充分代表了洛德的学术思想和独特贡...(展开全部)

Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures.One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures.One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in impressive detail the techniques of oral composition in performance. He explores t...(展开全部)

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a stor...(展开全部)

<p align="left">Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he h...(展开全部)

"A beautiful, fully realized dreamscape. A tender, brilliant tour de force from the Netherlands."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review