梅尔赛·罗多雷达 Mercè Rodoreda （1908－1983） 生于巴塞罗那，20岁结婚生子并开始发表短篇小说。西班牙内战爆发后流亡国外，一边做女裁缝的工作，一边开始写小说和短篇故事。中年时在当时爱人的鼓励下重拾年轻时的写作状态，并成为20世纪后半叶所有加泰罗尼亚语写作者的楷模。《钻石广场》便是其代表作，被翻译成四十多种语言，成为近年来被不断重估的女性主义文学经典。 加西亚·马尔克斯称它“在西班牙内战以后问世的文学作品中无出其右者”。哈罗德·布鲁姆将其誉为“所有时代中最精彩的加泰罗尼亚语小说”。

'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but...(展开全部)

Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but...(展开全部)

How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.

本書作者藍迪．席爾茲，是全美主流報紙第一位專職報導愛滋病的新聞記者，在廿年的記者生涯中，緊告同性戀平權和愛滋病兩大議題，並曾四度獲獎。『同性戀平權鬥士』是他親見正聞，並以標準而專業化的報導方式撰寫的真人實事。本書不但是同性戀運動的故事，也是關於愛、尊嚴與平等的故事。

本書作者藍迪．席爾茲，是全美主流報紙第一位專職報導愛滋病的新聞記者，在廿年的記者生涯中，緊告同性戀平權和愛滋病兩大議題，並曾四度獲獎。『同性戀平權鬥士』是他親見正聞，並以標準而專業化的報導方式撰寫的真人實事。本書不但是同性戀運動的故事，也是關於愛、尊嚴與平等的故事。

The young man and woman ordered a basin each of the mixture, steaming hot, and sat down to consume it at leisure. This was very well so far, for furmity, as the woman had said, was nourishing, and as proper a food as could be obtained within the four seas; though, to those not accustomed to it, the grains of wheat swollen as large as lemon-pips, which floated on its surface, mi...(展开全部)