托马斯·品钦，生于1937年5月8日，美国小说家，著有《V.》《拍卖第四十九批》《万有引力之虹》《葡萄园》《梅森和迪克逊》《反抗时间》《性本恶》《尖锋时代》，以及短篇集《慢慢学》。1974年因《万有引力之虹》被授予美国全国图书奖。 译者 但汉松，英美文学博士，副教授，现任教于南京大学英文系。主要学术兴趣为现当代美国文学及批评理论。业余从事文学翻译和书评随笔写作，著有个人随笔集《以读攻读》，译有托马斯·品钦的《性本恶》，桑顿·怀尔德的《我们的小镇》和《圣路易斯雷大桥》，朱利安·巴恩斯的《福楼拜的鹦鹉》等。

Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, "V., " but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to "Slow Learner" the author reviews his early work with disarming candor and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories ...(展开全部)

"Slow Learner" is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, "V" and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. The collection consists of five short stories: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration", as well as ...(展开全部)

"Slow Learner" is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, "V" and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. The collection consists of five short stories: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration", as well as ...(展开全部)

This is a grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marria...(展开全部)

杜鲁门·卡波特（Truman Capote, 1924—1984） 美国作家。1924年出生于新奥尔良，11岁开始文学创作。1958年，成名作《蒂凡尼的早餐》问世。1966年，代表作《冷血》出版，成为非虚构写作史上的里程碑。1984年8月25日于洛杉矶去世。

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently discovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his late teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices,...(展开全部)

“He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time.” —William H. Pritchard, The Hudson Review, reviewing Museums and Women (1972) A harvest and not a winnowing, The Early Stories prese...(展开全部)

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his win...(展开全部)

Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marriage and young families, and finally Updike's experimental stories on Th...(展开全部)