史坦貝克 美國作家，曾獲得1962年諾貝爾文學獎。作品多描寫大蕭條時期的平民階級及移民工人的生活，他的作品裡經常出現在生活中掙扎的人物，被認為是受了自然主義文學的影響。他的故事和人物都是來自20世紀上半葉時真正存在的歷史環境和事件。他的小說反映了他廣泛的興趣，比如海洋生物學，爵士樂，政治，哲學，歷史和神話。其主要小說代表作有《人鼠之間》（1937）、《憤怒的葡萄》（1939）、《罐頭廠街》（1945）以及《伊甸園東》（1952）等。另著有非虛構作品《史坦貝克俄羅斯紀行》（1948）、《查理與我》（1962）等。 立克茨 海洋生物學家，成立「太平洋生物實驗室」（Pacific Biological Laboratories, Inc.），經常為美國多所大專院校及頗具規模的研究機構提供海洋動物標本，對美國西岸潮間帶生態研究有著重大貢獻。在1930到194...(展开全部)

The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in ...(展开全部)

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in "Sea Of Cortez", published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure....(展开全部)

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of read...(展开全部)

Every word of this book is true. A nurse in 1913 fell in love with a man called John Smith, except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down.

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)

For many, the Mediterranean conjures tranquil images – whether it’s the warm weather and good food of Italy’s coastline, or the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul; gateway between West and East. But as Ernle Bradford details, the Mediterranean, while geologically young, is home to a long and bloody history, it is a sea that has witnessed many an empire rise and fall. From its origin...(展开全部)

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)