虽然阿历克西·德·托克维尔以其对美国政治出色的洞察力和对1789年革命之前法国社会的分析而广受赞誉，但对大多数读者而言，他仍是一个不同寻常的人物。他之所以为人所知，主要因为他的巨著《论美国的民主》，这部对美国社会的分析著作是他在1831-1832年与他的朋友古斯塔夫·德·博蒙一起巡游美国之后写成的，而那次出游的表面目的是要去考察美国的监狱制度。事情有时就是这样。《旧制度与大革命》和他关于1848年革命及其后果的《回忆录》后来出现在大学的阅读书目名单上。但是，作为一个学者，他与任何现代分类范畴都不是很契合。作为一位写下了一部具有持久影响力的分析美国政治的著作的政治学家、一位十九世纪法国最富鉴别力的历史学家，一位现代社会学家的先驱、一位曾当选众议员并被任命为外交部长的政治实践者，托克维尔给每个人都留下了遗产。然而，要想把所有这些构成部分都融为一体却并非易...(展开全部)

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French ver...(展开全部)

斯宾诺莎（1632—1677），十七世纪“典型资本主义国家”——荷兰的伟大哲学家，唯物主义者和战斗的无神论者，同时又是一位理性主义的先驱。斯宾诺莎的世界观是在尼德兰资本主义生产关系急剧发展的时期形成的，反映了新兴资产阶级的利益和要求，他的哲学思想应该看作是对资产阶级自由的论证。

No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called "the broken...(展开全部)

No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called "the broken...(展开全部)

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•乔伊斯（James Augustine Aloysius Joyce，1882—1941），爱尔兰小说家、诗人，被认为是对二十世纪现代主义文学影响最为深远的巨匠和宗师，甚至被誉为继莎士比亚后英语文学史上最伟大的作家。

Since Glenn Gould's death in 1982, the pianist's extraordinary talent has won a new audience through the reissue of his most famous recordings. This volume, containing over 200 of his letters, covers a wide range of Gould's artistic activities: his detailed thoughts about the piano repertoire, his rejection of the stage for record, T.V., and radio work, and his views on Beetho...(展开全部)