赫尔曼·布洛赫（Hermann Broch，1886—1951） 奥地利小说家，与卡夫卡、穆齐尔、贡布罗维奇一起被昆德拉誉为“中欧最伟大的四位小说家”。布洛赫生于维也纳，父亲是纺织厂老板，母亲是犹太富商的女儿，他在20岁时接管父亲的纺织厂，后结识卡尔·克劳斯、托马斯·曼、茨威格、罗伯特·穆齐尔、埃利亚斯·卡内蒂、爱因斯坦等人，40岁时进入维也纳大学学习数学、心理学和哲学，45岁时出版首部长篇小说《梦游人》，1938年流亡美国，晚年主要从事群众心理学研究，1950年被提名诺贝尔文学奖，次年心脏病发作，于美国康涅狄格州纽黑文去世。主要代表作有小说《无罪者》《着魔》《梦游人》《维吉尔之死》《未知量》。 徐迟 翻译者，炼字的人。译作有《眩晕》《独自迈向生命的尽头》《他人的行当》等。

After turning a healthy profit following his adventures in Pasloe, Kraft Lawrence is eager to reinvest his capital with an eye to the future. When the deal turns sour, though, Lawrence finds himself deeply in debt and facing a very bleak future indeed. Luckily, Holo is at his side with a risky (and less than legal) scheme that may just save the merchant's neck and a promise tha...(展开全部)

Having narrowly escaped financial ruin, Lawrence turns his attention to helping Holo find her ancient homeland in the North. But how long can a traveling merchant afford to wander the countryside looking for a village that he suspects may have ceased to exist long ago? When a rival merchant sets his sights on Lawrence's beautiful companion, though, can Lawrence truly be confide...(展开全部)

Lawrence Craft has been walking the lonely path of the itinerant merchant for seven years. His life changes forever when he meets Horo, the Wolf-God of the harvest, and the two begin travelling together.

布克獎得主Alan Hollinghurst擅長描寫男同志之間的情慾曖昧，露骨卻不流於低俗，04年BOOK PRIZE的得獎作品《The Line of Beauty》與前幾本創作也都是以男同志間的故事為主。而這本創作於1998年的《Spell》也不例外，是一部同性戀的風尚諧劇，小說講述了一名已經36歲的政府外交官員Alex，對他朋友22歲的兒子產生了情愫。《The Spell》處處洋溢著Alan Hollinghurst擅長的機敏對話與人物的鮮明性格。

布克獎得主Alan Hollinghurst擅長描寫男同志之間的情慾曖昧，露骨卻不流於低俗，04年BOOK PRIZE的得獎作品《The Line of Beauty》與前幾本創作也都是以男同志間的故事為主。而這本創作於1998年的《Spell》也不例外，是一部同性戀的風尚諧劇，小說講述了一名已經36歲的政府外交官員Alex，對他朋友22歲的兒子產生了情愫。《The Spell》處處洋溢著Alan Hollinghurst擅長的機敏對話與人物的鮮明性格。

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic p...(展开全部)

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures ...(展开全部)

杰克·特纳(Jack Turner)1968年生于澳大利亚墨尔本，在墨尔本大学荻古典文学艺术专业学士学位。后获罗兹奖学金在牛津大学学习，并以麦克阿瑟基金会初级研究员身份在那里从事研究，获牛津大学国际关系学博士学位。现与妻子海伦娜及儿子旅居瑞士。《香料传奇》是他的第一本著作。