Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar...(展开全部)

The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. 　　Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Poss...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Poss...(展开全部)

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full ...(展开全部)

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), a vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, have always been one of the most widely read of the works which survive from classical antiquity. They were written when Roman imperial power was reaching its height, and are sophisticated examples of a renaissance classicism - linguistic, literary, philosophi...(展开全部)

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。