In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captur...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker , and The New York Review of Books —in which it o...(展开全部)

Based on the blog with more than two million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, ...(展开全部)

Modern American poets translate classical Chinese poetry. The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is a rich compendium of translations like no other. It is the first to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry, starting with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and including translations by three other major US poets (William Carlos Willi...(展开全部)

Modern American poets translate classical Chinese poetry. The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is a rich compendium of translations like no other. It is the first to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry, starting with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and including translations by three other major US poets (William Carlos Willi...(展开全部)

作者简介：[英]克拉克·约翰·威利斯（1833—1910），英国历史学家、剑桥大学研究员。1833年6月24日出生于剑桥，是该大学解剖学教授威廉·克拉克博士的儿子，也是罗伯特·威利斯教授的侄子。他在剑桥伊顿和三一学院（1856年，学士），1858年成为研究员。1866—1891年任剑桥动物博物馆馆长，1891—1910年任剑桥大学注册馆长。1875年，威利斯教授将《剑桥大学建筑史》的未完成手稿遗赠给克拉克，克拉克完成了该书的出版工作，并监督了该书的出版。他于1910年10月10日在剑桥去世。 译者简介： 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等文学作品。曾经游历欧亚17个国家，译有法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

威廉·布莱兹（William Blades，1824—1890），英国著名的印刷商、藏书家、书目学家，热衷于收藏旧书与版画。出于对印刷的兴趣，布莱兹对英国印刷出版界名人卡克斯顿出版的作品颇有研究，对英国早期的印刷历史也了如指掌。代表作有《书之大敌》《威廉·卡克斯顿的生平与印刷术》等。