Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is d...(展开全部)

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is d...(展开全部)

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

This volume features startling stories of distinction by a remarkable writer who vividly describes the township squalor of growing up in settler-exploited Rhodesia.

In this superb work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has never belonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as he is gifted in observing the people around him. But Harry's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by "trillionaire" Sigmun...(展开全部)

保罗·巴奇加卢皮（1972~），美国当代科幻界引人瞩目的新秀作家，"雨果奖""星云奖""轨迹奖"和"斯特金奖"等诸多奖项的宠儿。他的一部长篇小说《发条女孩》（2009）就赢得了包括"雨果奖""星云奖"和"轨迹奖"在内的几乎所有幻想文学类大奖，并被《时代》杂志评为年度"优佳十部长篇小说"之一。他笔下的未来，散发着文明凋敝衰败的气息，从横扫各大科幻奖项的《发条女孩》，到这本短篇小说合集，莫不如是。细细品读，读者便会发现，导致文明日薄西山的，正是人类自己，或者说"人性"本身。 因为大学主修东亚研究，毕业后又在中国、泰国等地旅居过一段时间，巴奇加卢皮的作品往往带有浓厚的东方元素，如本书收录的《黄卡人》和《卡路里人》，就与东方背景的《发条女孩》同享一个世界观。

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo's wo...(展开全部)

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work,...(展开全部)

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer’s search for the truth behind his family’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by t...(展开全部)