Franz Schubert's tragically short life was spent in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven, adored Rossini, and thrilled to Paganini. Schubert, with the help of supportive friends who were themselves immersed in the arts, won fame for himself through songs and dances while aspiring to succeed with larger operas and symphonies. Christopher...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

恩斯特·帕维尔 | Ernst Pawel 美国作家。1920年生于布雷斯劳（即现今波兰的弗罗茨瓦夫），1933年随家人逃离纳粹德国，迁至南斯拉夫，四年后移居美国纽约。二战中曾服役于军方情报部门，担任翻译。战后从纽约城市大学获得学士学位，并进入纽约人寿保险公司工作，直至1982年退休。他利用业余时间写作，作品包括小说、人物传记，以及大量随笔和书评。1994年，因罹患肺癌，逝于纽约长岛。

The search began with Darwin's historic voyage on the Beagle and it continues today in the laboratories of the genetic engineers. How did life on earth begin? What is the key to evolution that insures only the fittest survive? How do we differ from other species? And how might tomorrow's scientists read—and alter—the biological blueprint to eliminate disease, birth defects, and...(展开全部)

【作者简介】克莱尔·卡莱（Clare Carlisle） 曾在剑桥大学三一学院学习哲学和神学，1998年获得学士学位，2002年获得博士学位。现为伦敦国王学院的哲学教授。代表作《心灵哲学家:索伦·克尔凯郭尔的不安生活》《斯宾诺莎的宗教:伦理学新论》等。 【译者简介】徐颖 国际关系学院教师，北京大学英美文学博士。译著代表作为《奥兰多》《伊芙琳的七次死亡》《爱·不释手》等，已发表多篇关于乔治·爱略特创作的研究性论文。

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time Maps an unbounded, extra-disciplinary space of enquiry into the history of reading, crossing literary studies, critical theory, media history, law, philosophy, and neuroscience, while engaging with an array of major...(展开全部)

作者：陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821—1881），“俄国文学三巨头”之一，影响世界文学的重要作家。 译者：臧仲伦（1931—2014）：北京大学教授，中国作家协会会员，中国翻译协会“资深翻译家”，翻译了陀思妥耶夫斯基的大量作品，并与巴金先生合译了赫尔岑的《往事与随想》。

The Double is a remarkable tale in the tradition of doppelgänger literature. As Dostoevsky examines the neurosis and paranoia that cripple a seemingly ordinary man, he produces a thoroughly ‘modern’ nightmare, brilliantly foreshadowing the works of Kafka and Sartre. Mr Golyadkin is a rather middling man, a somewhat insignificant government official. Then one day he meets his ...(展开全部)

"The Double" is a remarkable work of doppelganger literature. As Dostoevsky examines the neurosis and paranoia that cripple a seemingly ordinary man, he produces a thoroughly modern nightmare, brilliantly foreshadowing the works of Kafka and Sartre. Mr. Golyadkin, a minor government official, is a rather middling man. Then one day he meets his "double"--a man with the same name...(展开全部)

What happens when Tertuliano M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives? How do we know who we are? What do we mean by identity? What defines us as indiv...(展开全部)