乔弗里•梅耶斯（Jeffrey Meyers） 皇家文学学会会员，在世界各地演讲，并经常出现在电视节目中。他四十五部关于文学、电影与艺术的书，已被译成十一种语言，包括凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德、温德汉姆•刘易斯、海明威、洛威尔、劳伦斯、康拉德、坡、菲茨杰拉德、埃德蒙•威尔逊、弗洛斯特、鲍嘉、库珀、埃洛尔•弗林和西恩•弗林、萨默塞特•毛姆等人的传记，以及四位印象派画家。最近他被美国艺术文学院授予文学奖项，目前正在撰写萨缪尔•约翰逊的传记。

Modigliani (1884-1920) was a painter of great unhappiness in his native Italy and felt only sorrow in his adopted country of France. Out of this discontent came forth Modigliani's original work, which

A stunning volume accompanies the largest retrospective of this modernist master ever mounted, an exhibit, opening at the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris in October 2002 and running through March 2003, will be a comprehensive survey of Modigliani's career, from his earliest days as a painter in search of a style to his premature death in 1920. The exhibit presents Modigliani's pai...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reade...(展开全部)

胡安·卡洛斯·奥内蒂 （Juan Carlos Onetti，1909-1994） 乌拉圭作家。1909年生于乌拉圭蒙得维的亚。年少时家境贫寒，未受高等教育。曾任左翼杂志《前进》周刊秘书，后担任路透社驻布宜诺斯艾利斯办事处主任，1955年回国后任蒙得维的亚市图书馆馆长，1974年因受军政府迫害流亡到西班牙，1994年病逝于马德里。在生命的最后十二年里，他足不出户，终日躺在床上阅读、吸烟、喝威士忌，在位于马德里美洲大道31号的家中接受读者和记者的拜访。 1939年，奥内蒂凭借长篇小说《井》走上文坛，他在二十世纪四五十年代创作出的《无主之地》《为了今夜》《离别》等作品被文学界认为是拉丁美洲“新小说”的奠基之作。在1950年出版的小说《短暂的生命》中，奥内蒂虚构出了一个名叫 “圣玛利亚”的城镇，这座城镇也与加西亚·马尔克斯的马孔多、胡安·鲁尔福的科马拉等地...(展开全部)

Written in 1950, "A Brief Life" is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures, their expressions.Brausen lives with his wife, who has undergone major surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. To compensate for this physical void w...(展开全部)

The epic autobiography of a manga master Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections "The Push Man and Other Stories," "Abandon the Old in Tokyo," and "Good-Bye"--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic nov...(展开全部)