Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He had written poems and short novels during his studies. In 1889, he became famous overnight after his first play, La Princesse Maleine,...(展开全部)

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a play based on the actual events in 1692 that led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCar...(展开全部)

桑顿·怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897年4月17日－1975年12月7日）出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，为美国小说家和剧作家，是唯一的一位用文学作品和戏剧作品获得双普利策奖的人。 1897年，怀尔德出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，父亲阿莫斯·帕克·怀尔德，是一位美国外交官，母亲伊莎贝拉·怀尔德·尼文。怀尔德的父亲被分配到清朝工作，任职美国驻香港与上海总领事，因此他的童年在清朝度过。1915，怀尔德从柏克莱高中毕业，1917，他考入耶鲁大学。第一次世界大战爆发后，怀尔德参加了美国军队，在军队中中服役8个月。1926年，怀尔德获得普林斯顿大学颁发的法国文学硕士学位，同年发表了他的处女作小说《奥秘》。

This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation...(展开全部)

This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of a...(展开全部)

桑顿·怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897年4月17日－1975年12月7日）出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，为美国小说家和剧作家，是唯一的一位用文学作品和戏剧作品获得双普利策奖的人。 1897年，怀尔德出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，父亲阿莫斯·帕克·怀尔德，是一位美国外交官，母亲伊莎贝拉·怀尔德·尼文。怀尔德的父亲被分配到清朝工作，任职美国驻香港与上海总领事，因此他的童年在清朝度过。1915，怀尔德从柏克莱高中毕业，1917，他考入耶鲁大学。第一次世界大战爆发后，怀尔德参加了美国军队，在军队中中服役8个月。1926年，怀尔德获得普林斯顿大学颁发的法国文学硕士学位，同年发表了他的处女作小说《奥秘》。