Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark...(展开全部)

阿尔贝特·施韦泽（Albert Schweitzer，1875年1月14日 – 1965年9月4日），旧译史怀哲，德国哲学家、神学家、医生、管风琴演奏家、社会活动家、人道主义者，1952年诺贝尔和平奖得主。1875年生于德、法边界阿尔萨斯省的小城凯泽尔贝格（当 时属于德意志帝国）。特殊的地理环境使他精通德、法两种语言，在9岁时，就成了演奏风琴的能手。1898年在巴黎大学和柏林大学学习，获得哲学和神学博士学位，1899年，任圣尼古拉斯教堂传教士之职。1901年任斯特拉斯堡大学神学院院长。1904年，在哲学、神学和音乐方面已经拥有巨大声望的他听到刚果缺少医生的呼吁，决定到非洲行医。历经九年的学习，他在38岁的时候获得了行医证和医学博士学位。施韦泽夫妇俩于1913年来到法属非洲，主要靠巴赫作品演奏会的收入，在加蓬创办兰巴雷内麻风病院，经过近三十年的艰苦奋斗...(展开全部)

This is the first collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1992 and the Caribbean's greatest poet. Derek Walcott has long held a unique position in the world of Caribbean letters and - beyond that - in the literary consciousness of Great Britain, the United States and the rest of the world. He is one of the most accomplished p...(展开全部)

'At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I moved back in I was still, for the most part, an idiot. But this time, I was smart enough to write down all the things he said to...(展开全部)

This is the first collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1992 and the Caribbean's greatest poet. Derek Walcott has long held a unique position in the world of Caribbean letters and - beyond that - in the literary consciousness of Great Britain, the United States and the rest of the world. He is one of the most accomplished p...(展开全部)

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: "That woman was sexy. . . . Ou...(展开全部)

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in "The New York Review of Books, The New Republic," and elsewhere for more than twenty years. "What the Twilight Says" collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes o...(展开全部)

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in "The New York Review of Books, The New Republic," and elsewhere for more than twenty years. "What the Twilight Says" collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes o...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark...(展开全部)

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer tha...(展开全部)