在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

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索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915－2005），美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入西北大学，于1937年毕业，并获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。之后长期在大学执教。 出版于1953年的《奥吉·马奇历险记》使贝娄一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。其后，他陆续出版《雨王亨德森》（1959）、《赫索格》（1964）、《赛姆勒先生的行星》（1970）、《洪堡的礼物）（1975）、《系主任的十二月》（1982）等。这些作品袒露了中产阶级知识分子的精神苦闷，从侧面反映了美国当代“丰裕社会”的精神危机。此外，贝娄还出版过诸多中短篇小说集、剧本，以及游记。 在其创作生涯中，贝娄集学者与作家于一身，他在创作上继承了欧洲现实主义文学的某些...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Emperor Qianlong which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, ...(展开全部)

T.H.怀特（特伦斯•韩伯瑞•怀特），1906年出生于印度孟买，毕业于剑桥大学，曾在白金汉郡担任教职，后隐居于英国乡间专职写作。著有《吾身属英格兰》（1936年），这部乡间生活传记奠定了他在文坛的名声。之后，他全心研究亚瑟王传奇，创作了永恒之王四部曲，成为其创作上一座重要的里程碑。

The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart -- ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlyn -- who goes on to become King Arthur. When Merlyn the magician comes to tutor Sir Ector's sons Kay and the Wart, schoolwork suddenly becomes much more fun. After all, who wouldn't enjoy being turned into a fish, or a badger, or a snake? But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)