作者 薇拉·凯瑟(Willa Cather，1873-1947)，美国著名小说家，编剧，诗人。她擅长以自幼熟悉的西部边疆生活为题材，创作富有地方特色的作品。1944年，她作为美国文学艺术院院士，获得该院最高奖。近年美国评论界认为她是20世纪美国ZUI杰出的小说家之一。她的作品被誉为美国文学的“珍珠”。代表作有《啊，拓荒者！》《我的安东尼娅》《我们的一员》等。 译者 胡蝶，1989年生，重庆人。同济大学博士，现为上海理工大学讲师。主要研究美国西部文学，特别是现当代美国西部小说。出版专著《科马克·麦卡锡对美国西部小说传统模式的颠覆与重构》。发表科研论文《走下神坛的美国亚当——论<边境三部曲>对西部牛仔形象的重构》《麦卡锡<路>中的不确定性研究》等。

Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the life of Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan who refuses to settle for a life others have imagined for him. Alienated from his parents and rejected by his wife, Wheeler finally finds his destiny on the bloody battlefields of World War I.

This stirring novel about World War I won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In the lucid, unadorned prose that were her hallmark, Cather brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all.

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by...(展开全部)

The novel follows life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native, searching for his purpose in life. We see Claude building friendships during his University years and these relationships interrupted when

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RA: 无限的东西不能是许多个，因为许多(many-ness)是一个有限的概念。要有无限，你必须辨识或定义无限为合一(Unity)；否则这个词汇就没有任何意义。在一个无限的造物者之中只有合一的存在。你们都看过合一的简单例子，一个三棱镜(prism)展现所有颜色来自于阳光这是关于合一的简化示范。 事实上，没有对或错，也没有极性，你们舞动着穿越心身灵复合体(complex)，你们此刻以不同的变貌娱乐自己，但一切终会在某个时点达成和谐。 这些变貌在任何情况下都不是必须的，而是由你们每一位所选择，做为另一种理解包罗万有的完整合一的方式。现在不是说一个类似或有点像的东西，你是一切事物，每一个存有，每一个表情，每一个事件，每一种情境，你是合一，你是无限。你是爱/光，光/爱。你是你本是。这就是一的法则。

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better—and smarter—solution is simply to remain small? This book explains how to do just that. Company of One is a refreshingly ...(展开全部)

From the moment these two legendary players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him and whose caustic wit left opponents quaking in thei...(展开全部)

布莱斯·考特尼（Bryce Courtenay），真实经历有如传奇的澳大利亚头号国民作家。祖籍英国，生于南非，在澳大利亚从事广告业，直到55岁才动笔写下第一本小说《一的力量》，结果这部带有半自传色彩的历史成长小说马上成了天王级畅销书。考特尼是澳大利亚作家中的销售记录保持人，至今无人能超越。