杰克·万斯 生于1916年，少年时代极不安分，修过采矿工程、物理学和新闻学，上商船做过水手。曲折的经历培养了他对大自然以及民间传说的感情，丰富了他的人生阅历，为他以后的文学创作打下了坚实的基础。 杰克·万斯是标准的多栖作家，在奇幻和科幻领域都取得了巨大的成就。他的小说语言瑰丽，想象超群，尤其在奇幻设定方面更是大胆创新，成为后来许多作家竞相模仿的对象。 万斯一生获奖无数，包括雨果奖、星云奖和世界奇幻奖。1997年美国科幻作家协会授予他大师奖，使其成为美国幻想文学史上继罗伯特·海因莱因、艾萨克·阿西莫夫等巨星级作家之后的第十五位大师。 读者现在看到的这部《濒死的地球》是万斯最著名的作品，历来被公认为末世奇幻/科幻小说的第一经典。

&quote;Keep the Aspidistra Flying&quote;, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to de

在线阅读本书 Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his ch...(展开全部)

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

诺贝特•埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897—1990），德裔社会学家，20世纪百科全书式人物，被誉为“21世纪的社会学家”。他出生在当时西里西亚地区的布雷斯劳（现称弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰）的一个犹太富商家庭，早年曾兼修医学与哲学，取得博士学位后转攻社会学，先后师从韦伯和曼海姆。纳粹上台后，他先是流亡巴黎，后赴英国继续学术研究。1939年，他的名著《文明的进程》首次出版。1940年，他曾由于德国人身份而被关入拘留营八个月时间。战后，他在英国、德国、荷兰等地的院校任教。他是反思性历史社会学家的代表，通过自我反思的追问来理解现代性，致力于细致的经验研究和长时段历史研究，代表作还有《宫廷社会》《个体的社会》《莫扎特的成败》《符号理论》等。 译者：索马里，曾供职于《GQ智族》《彭博商业周刊》，现为99读书人副总编辑，译有《一个自杀者的传说》《记忆之...(展开全部)

Dirk t'Larien journeys to the planet Worlorn, site of the great Festival of Worlds, and, in the desolate twilight descending on the once bright planet, struggles to save his former lover, Gwen, from an alien nobleman. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. For years, Heather B. Arms...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

《死者》是爱尔兰知名作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯短篇小说代表作。 知识分子加布里埃尔在圣诞宴会后，因妻子格丽塔追忆病逝的旧情人而陷入精神顿。 结尾“整个爱尔兰都在下雪”的意象，将个人情感危机升华为对生死、爱情与民族命运的沉思，雪覆盖生者与死者的画面成为现代主义文学经典场景。