拉泽尔·齐夫（1927-），约翰·霍普金斯大学的英语研究教授，美国文理科学院研究员，专注于研究美国思想文化史。《迷惘的一代人的岁月》被《美国文学史》的编著者斯皮勒誉为“写得最好的文学史”。

拉泽尔·齐夫（1927-），约翰·霍普金斯大学的英语研究教授，美国文理科学院研究员，专注于研究美国思想文化史。《迷惘的一代人的岁月》被《美国文学史》的编著者斯皮勒誉为“写得最好的文学史”。

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hop...(展开全部)

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a ...(展开全部)

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhowe...(展开全部)