【作者】 詹姆斯·坎贝尔，英国作家、评论家和编辑，以撰写深入细腻的人物传记和文学评论闻名。1951年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，1978年至1982年担任《新爱丁堡评论》编辑，之后成为《泰晤士报文学增刊》长期专栏作者。他特别关注那些在种族、政治、社会边缘挣扎的作家群体，这种兴趣也直接引领了他撰写詹姆斯·鲍德温传记的决心。另著有《巴黎流放者》《这就是垮掉的一代》等。 【译者】 吴琦，《单读》主编，播客《螺丝在拧紧》主播。与项飙合著谈话录《把自己作为方法》，译有《下一次将是烈火》《去山巅呼喊》。

【作者】 詹姆斯·坎贝尔，英国作家、评论家和编辑，以撰写深入细腻的人物传记和文学评论闻名。1951年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，1978年至1982年担任《新爱丁堡评论》编辑，之后成为《泰晤士报文学增刊》长期专栏作者。他特别关注那些在种族、政治、社会边缘挣扎的作家群体，这种兴趣也直接引领了他撰写詹姆斯·鲍德温传记的决心。另著有《巴黎流放者》《这就是垮掉的一代》等。 【译者】 吴琦，《单读》主编，播客《螺丝在拧紧》主播。与项飙合著谈话录《把自己作为方法》，译有《下一次将是烈火》《去山巅呼喊》。

James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics. James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of cor...(展开全部)

James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement of the sixties, open at all times about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his collections of essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. James C...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D.圣·苏西（Robert D. San Souci） 美国著名说书人，毕业于圣玛丽大学。由他改写创作的民间故事作品包括《会说话的蛋》和《忠诚的朋友》（The Faithful Friend），均获得了凯迪克银牌奖。他与杰瑞·平克尼合作的作品还有获得美国《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本奖的《雇佣之手》（The Hired Hand）等。现住在加利福尼亚州的旧金山。 杰瑞·平克尼（Jerry Pinkney） 非裔美籍的著名插画家。1939年出生于费城，4岁开始画画，毕业于费城艺术学院，从1964年起专攻于儿童读物的插图，至今已画了超过100本书，还成功举办了超过30次的个人作品回顾展。他最新的作品是Dial出版社的《三只小猫》（Three Little Kittens）。现为多所大学的艺术教授，住在纽约州。 杰瑞一生所获的荣誉颇多，不胜枚举。其中包括...(展开全部)

A Golden Age CLassic Set Against The Rise of The Third Reich "Its background is Germany, immediately after Hitler's rise to power, and this gives it a strong topical interest. Periods of political revolution and reform are usually confused and puzzling periods, and the book faithfully reflects this aspect of its setting. Murders occur, and the solution of the problem is made mo...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)