I.B.辛格（1902—1991），美国犹太作家，20世纪短篇小说大师，被誉为“最伟大的现代意第绪语作家”。1902年生于波兰，父亲与祖父都是犹太教的拉比。早年进入犹太神学院深造，不久便辍学，开始写作生涯。二战前夕，迫于纳粹威胁移民美国，从事记者与专栏作家的工作，同时用意第绪语进行文学创作，以其独特的风格描画东欧犹太人的世俗与精神生活；著有短篇小说集、长篇小说、儿童故事集几十部，以及众多散文、回忆录等。自索尔•贝娄将其短篇小说《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》译为英文后，其作品备受批评界重视，好评如潮，斩获美国国家图书奖。1978年因“充满激情的叙事艺术，根植于波兰犹太人的文化传统，展现人普遍的人类境遇”获诺贝尔文学奖。

I.B.辛格（1902—1991），美国犹太作家，20世纪短篇小说大师，被誉为“最伟大的现代意第绪语作家”。1902年生于波兰，父亲与祖父都是犹太教的拉比。早年进入犹太神学院深造，不久便辍学，开始写作生涯。二战前夕，迫于纳粹威胁移民美国，从事记者与专栏作家的工作，同时用意第绪语进行文学创作，以其独特的风格描画东欧犹太人的世俗与精神生活；著有短篇小说集、长篇小说、儿童故事集几十部，以及众多散文、回忆录等。自索尔•贝娄将其短篇小说《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》译为英文后，其作品备受批评界重视，好评如潮，斩获美国国家图书奖。1978年因“充满激情的叙事艺术，根植于波兰犹太人的文化传统，展现人普遍的人类境遇”获诺贝尔文学奖。

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

Revealing, captivating, and surprising stories of yesterday's legendary financial masterminds From its inception, Wall Street has been home to a variety of fascinating heroes and villains who have left their mark-for better or for worse-in pursuit of their financial endeavors. In Volume Two of Wall Street People, Charles Ellis and James Vertin turn back the clock to reveal the ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)