忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler ...(展开全部)

罗伯特•伯顿（Robert Burton,1577—1640）是一个学问渊博而性情古怪的人。他于1593年进入牛津，至1602年方得到学位，历时9年，因为自从他进入学校到1599年一直重病缠身，深深体会了忧郁的滋味。他终身留在牛津大学，做导师、做图书馆管理，他一生埋首在图书里。 他从不旅行，从未结婚，只是博览群籍乐此不疲，以至于死。他死于1640年1月25日，正好和他根据星象学推算出的死期非常接近，有人说他是自杀而死以证明其预言之不虚。（梁实秋撰）

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler ...(展开全部)

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

凯特·阿歇尔 美国作家，毕业于布朗大学政治系，后于伦敦政治经济学院取得政府管理硕士和博士学位。曾在纽约市经济发展公司、纽约和新泽西港务局任职，在沃那多房产公司担任高管，现于哥伦比亚大学建筑、规划及历史保护研究生院担任教授。

A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes ...(展开全部)

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in...(展开全部)