This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went...(展开全部)

In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Gol...(展开全部)

约翰逊博士是十八世纪英国文坛的祭酒，他曾费时七年独立完成睥睨英国文坛的《英文字典》，而他如大熊星座般君临众星的魅力，则在他那充满人生智慧的谈论对话、罕见的巧妙言谈、那意想不到的比喻、卓越的修辞、洋溢的机智中体现，这使得史蒂文森每天都要像读《圣经》那样读上一些，英国语言学家乔艾特更是为之着迷，前后手不释卷地读了五十遍。作者包斯威尔从二十三岁起便与约翰逊成了忘年的莫逆之交，他立志把这位文坛巨擘一点一滴挖掘出来。对爱好智慧的现代人来说，本书正是一座睿智的宝库。在这部千古绝唱的传记中，读者除了看到因缅怀往事而产生的逼人才华、光彩夺目的文字外，还可看到包氏本人的悲剧精神，及由此而生所洋溢的两位不平凡人物的温馨友情。近代传记大师莫洛亚曾赞叹包氏是现代传记文学之父。此书业已成了世界最伟大不朽之传记文学的经典之作。读者可以每十年看一次，而且愈看愈有味，同时领会杰出传...(展开全部)

In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Gol...(展开全部)

约翰逊博士是十八世纪英国文坛的祭酒，他曾费时七年独立完成睥睨英国文坛的《英文字典》，而他如大熊星座般君临众星的魅力，则在他那充满人生智慧的谈论对话、罕见的巧妙言谈、那意想不到的比喻、卓越的修辞、洋溢的机智中体现，这使得史蒂文森每天都要像读《圣经》那样读上一些，英国语言学家乔艾特更是为之着迷，前后手不释卷地读了五十遍。作者包斯威尔从二十三岁起便与约翰逊成了忘年的莫逆之交，他立志把这位文坛巨擘一点一滴挖掘出来。对爱好智慧的现代人来说，本书正是一座睿智的宝库。在这部千古绝唱的传记中，读者除了看到因缅怀往事而产生的逼人才华、光彩夺目的文字外，还可看到包氏本人的悲剧精神，及由此而生所洋溢的两位不平凡人物的温馨友情。近代传记大师莫洛亚曾赞叹包氏是现代传记文学之父。此书业已成了世界最伟大不朽之传记文学的经典之作。读者可以每十年看一次，而且愈看愈有味，同时领会杰出传...(展开全部)

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。 伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？ 战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他•••••• 3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。 电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。 不久...(展开全部)

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。 伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？ 战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他•••••• 3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。 电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。 不久...(展开全部)

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson —the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent . Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist * Time *Newsweek * Foreign Policy * Business Week * The Week * The Christian Science Monitor *Newsday B...(展开全部)

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of i...(展开全部)