Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, a...(展开全部)

The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers will have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form, twenty-six pieces on books and writing, all but one previously published. Stranger Shores o...(展开全部)

In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of the written word and of fiction in particular. Here are his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary fo...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔// V.S.Naipaul 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后开始写作。著有《米格尔街》、《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《自由国度》、《游击队员》、《大河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。2001年，获诺贝尔文学奖。

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul’s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a ...(展开全部)

In the days of sail Viking longships and Hanse roundships plied the waters of the Baltic, and for centuries the area formed the axis of a five-nation power struggle, as bids were made for glory both on land and at sea. Today towering ferries and container ships criss-cross routes between cities with a proud past, and travellers are entranced by legendary castles and captivating...(展开全部)

苏珊・巴斯内特：英国沃里克大学(UniversityofWarwick)英国和比较文化研究中心教授。著作包括《翻译研究》(Translation Studies)、《比较文学浅论》(Comparative Literature：A Critical Introduction)以及与安德烈・勒菲弗尔合编的《翻译、历史与文化》(Translation, History and Culture)等。 安德烈・勒菲弗尔(1946-1996)：翻译研究领域世界一流的学术带头人。著述丰厚，包括：《诗歌翻译：七种策略和一个蓝图》(Translation Poetry：Seven Strategies and a Blueprint)、《翻译、重写以及对文学名声的操纵》(Translation，Rewriting and the Manipulation of ...(展开全部)

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's wor...(展开全部)

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's wor...(展开全部)

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cervantes, Racine, Diderot, and Claudel in the light of this theory. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dist...(展开全部)