“Take Faust, what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a ‘singular medley,’ as one anonymous 1851 review put it? ... ‘It is no longer a novel,’ T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses. But if not novels, then what are they?” Literary history has long b...(展开全部)

【编者简介】 吉恩•贝尔-维亚达（ Gene H. Bell-Villada），美国威廉姆斯学院罗曼语系主任，著有《为艺术而艺术及文学生活：政治和市场如何帮助塑造唯美主义的思想和文化，1790—1990》（入围美国国家图书评论奖）、《海外美国人：在热带长大的外国佬》等。 【译者简介】 许志强，浙江大学世界文学和比较文学研究所教授、博导，著有《马孔多神话和魔幻现实主义》，译有《在西方的注视下》《水手比利•巴德》等。

Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927) is a sophisticated literary artist who has attained broad popularity. His masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has sold tens of millions of copies world wide. His later works have enjoyed equally astounding sales. His achievement as an author received the highest official recognition with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Convers...(展开全部)

保罗·约翰逊，英国著名历史学家。他是我们这个时代最著名的历史学者之一，入选美国《时代》杂志2000年一百大人物。1928年出生于英国兰开夏，牛津大学麦格德林学院毕业。他曾是一名激进的左翼人士，任《新政治家》编辑，但后来在撒切尔夫人的影响下思想右转，并成为支持英国政治保守主义的著名知识分子代表。 主要论著:他撰写了一大批具有里程碑意义的历史著作，涵盖历史、哲学及宗教等领域。包括《论知识分子》、《犹太人史》、《当代》、《美国人民史》、《英国人民史》、《艺术：一段新历史》等。他定期为全球最著名的报纸及杂志写稿，包括英国《每日电讯报》、《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》，现为《观察家报》、《每日邮报》的专栏作家。

Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their d...(展开全部)

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible' and constantly ready to chang...(展开全部)

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible' and constantly ready to chang...(展开全部)

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible' and constantly ready to chang...(展开全部)