Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including "The Home Place", also available in a Bison Books edition, and "Field of Vision", which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including "The Feast of Love".

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Silenced Voices" looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of h...(展开全部)

Product Description from Amazon.com This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric (tz'u) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of literary production. They articulate the common...(展开全部)

"Come hear a song about a baby, a very special baby.Come hear a song about you."This affectionate tribute to the all-encompassing love of a child will touch parents' and grandparents' hearts at the same time that it satisfies children's requests to tell them about when they were little. Best-selling author Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical text and award-winning illustrator Dan Andre...(展开全部)

盖伊·加夫里尔·凯： 生于1954年11月7日。加拿大文坛享有国际声誉的奇幻大师之一。 20世纪70年代，《魔戒之王》的作者托尔金去世后，凯应邀前往英国协助托尔金之子克里斯托弗·托尔金整理乃父留下的文稿。在此后的三年中，随着托尔金的遗作《精灵宝钻》顺利完成，凯自己也狂热地爱上了奇幻文学。数年之后，凯模仿托尔金风格而成的奇幻小说“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲上市，并获大奖。 之后，凯结合自己的兴趣开始创作“仿历史奇幻小说”，这种小说是将真实历史中的人和事进行改编，构建一个完整的架空世界，既具有结构紧凑、有理有序、容易被读者接受的优点，又能借此抒发悠远的历史情怀。在此之前，虽然也有人做过尝试，但凯却是获得突破性成就的第一人。现在与大家见面的《提嘉娜》、《阿拉桑雄狮》和《亚波娜之歌》，即是凯最具代表性的经典之作。 截至目前，凯已获得幻想文坛多个大奖，如世界幻想文学...(展开全部)

"A Song for Arbonne" is Guy Gavriel Kayas critically acclaimed fantasy of love, both courtly and forbidden, and of kingdoms endlessly opposedaone dominated by male rulers and their male god, the other guided by women and their goddess.

A Song for Arbonne is a novel by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay published in 1992. It is set in a fantasy world with two moons and is loosely based on 12th-century Provence and the Albigensian Crusade. There were 25,000 copies of the book published in the first printing. Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbin...(展开全部)

Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world. The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador Bertran de Talair and Urte de Miraval, over long-dead Aelis, lover of one, wife of ...(展开全部)

Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is the only place where she ...(展开全部)