Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrica...(展开全部)

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrica...(展开全部)

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . . Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely pri...(展开全部)

★作 者 加里·威尔斯 (Garry Wills)，美国作家，美国西北大学历史系名誉教授，美国艺术和文学学会、美国艺术与科学学院成员。他著述颇丰，广受好评，曾获美国图书评论界奖、普利策奖非虚构类作品奖。 ★译 者 陆诗婷，北京大学英语笔译硕士，英国贝尔法斯特女王大学翻译学博士，青年译者。

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. ...(展开全部)

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

Starred Review. Grade 7 Up–At 15, Thomas Peaceful, like many other English soldiers in World War I, is too young to fight, but he lies about his age. Now at the front in France with his older brother Charlie he stands a lonely nighttime vigil for reasons that are not explained until the book's end, watching the minutes tick by and reflecting on his past. Using first-person narr...(展开全部)

What is a family? Grandparents, mom, dad, and kids around a Thanksgiving turkey? An egg mother, a womb mother, a sperm donor, and their mutual child? Two gay men caring for their adopted son? In this provocative essay, a leading American legal historian argues that laws about family are increasingly laws about individuals and their right to make their own, sometimes contentious...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威...(展开全部)