A suicide shop that is full of life... --Le Figaro You will die laughing. --La Dépêche Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers...(展开全部)

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all ... 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as lon...(展开全部)

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

In Philip Roth"s intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer"s highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life. Milan Kundera and Czechoslovakia, Primo Levi and Auschwitz, Edna O"Brien and ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿米塔夫•高希（Amitav Ghosh）1956年出生于加尔各答，成长于印度、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡等地。从新德里大学毕业后，他赴牛津大学圣埃德蒙学堂研修，并获社会人类学博士学位。高希以其独有的人类学者的知识背景和现实关怀，以及细腻入微的描写，构成了当代印度英语文学重要的一部分。 著作另有《理性环》（The Circle of Reason）、《阴影线》（The Shadow Lines）、《饿潮》（The Hungry Tide）以及“朱鹭号”三部曲《罂粟海》(Sea of Poppies)、《烟河》（River of Smoke）和《火海》（Flood of Fire）等十余部作品。他的作品斩获了包括法国美第奇文学奖、印度顶级文学奖挲诃德耶学院奖以及英国阿瑟•克拉克科幻奖等诸多国际大奖。2007年，他被印度总统授予印度最高荣誉“卓越贡...(展开全部)

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

艾黎•福尔（1873—1937），法国著名艺术评论家、艺术史与历史学家，最早将艺术与文化进行跨领域研究的艺术史学家之一。他运用高度诗意化的语言讲述艺术史的方法使本书深受读者喜爱，一经问世被陆续译成多种语言在世界各地相继出版，至今仍不断重印。 译者简介： 张延风，北京语言大学教授，1969年毕业于北京外国语学院法语系。著有《法国现代美术》《中西方文化掇英》等，译有《黑非洲艺术》，现致力于中西方艺术比较和文化艺术研究。 张泽乾，武汉大学教授，武汉大学外语学院院长。多年从事法国文化研究。著有《法国文化史》《法国文明史》《20世纪法国文学史》等。