A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination.

The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura. Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants ...(展开全部)

Translated into twenty languages and published in more than fourteen Spanish editions, The Lost Steps, originally published in 1953, is Alejo Carpentier's most heralded novel.A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization -- the upper reaches of a great Sou...(展开全部)

The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where it went on to achieve critical acclaim.

Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL, International Edition, is known for its student-friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thou...(展开全部)

Jean Wynck，是美国科罗拉多州立大学(Colorado State University)的荣誉退休教授(Professor Emerita)，曾任该校写作教研部主任11年之久。她有丰富的教学经验，在近30年的教学生涯中，主讲过本科英语写作课、培训过英语写作教师并担任多项写作研究项目的负责人。此外，她还著有“The Rinehart Reader”和“Discovering Ideas”等著作。她曾发表了二十多篇关于写作和美国文学方面的论文。目前她研究的主要内容包括19世纪晚期和20世纪初的美国小说、美国研究以及妇女研究。她出版的三本大学写作教材都曾多次再版。

Jean Wynck，是美国科罗拉多州立大学(Colorado State University)的荣誉退休教授(Professor Emerita)，曾任该校写作教研部主任11年之久。她有丰富的教学经验，在近30年的教学生涯中，主讲过本科英语写作课、培训过英语写作教师并担任多项写作研究项目的负责人。此外，她还著有“The Rinehart Reader”和“Discovering Ideas”等著作。她曾发表了二十多篇关于写作和美国文学方面的论文。目前她研究的主要内容包括19世纪晚期和20世纪初的美国小说、美国研究以及妇女研究。她出版的三本大学写作教材都曾多次再版。