The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In The Gap of ...(展开全部)

作者简介 珍妮特·温特森，1959年生于曼彻斯特，五个月大时被康斯坦斯·温特森和约翰·W. 温特森夫妇收养，并在伊利姆的五旬节派教堂接受传教士的培养。温特森十六岁时对自己的同志身份觉醒并离家，后来进入牛津大学学习。1985年，处女作、半自传体小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》一举荣获惠特布雷德首作奖，温特森成为英国文坛一颗耀眼的新星。她的作品先后获得约翰·卢埃林·里斯奖、E. M. 福斯特奖、兰布达文学奖等众多文学大奖，她也因文学上的贡献荣获大英帝国勋章（OBE）。2012年，她继科尔姆·托宾担任曼彻斯特大学的创意写作教授。 温特森的作品主要探索了肉体和想象之间的边界、性别特性和性向认同等主题，代表作有小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》《给樱桃以性别》《激情》《写在身体上》《苹果笔记本》《守望灯塔》，自传《正常就好，何必快乐？》等。 译者简介 于是，著名青年文学翻译...(展开全部)

作者简介 珍妮特·温特森，1959年生于曼彻斯特，五个月大时被康斯坦斯·温特森和约翰·W. 温特森夫妇收养，并在伊利姆的五旬节派教堂接受传教士的培养。温特森十六岁时对自己的同志身份觉醒并离家，后来进入牛津大学学习。1985年，处女作、半自传体小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》一举荣获惠特布雷德首作奖，温特森成为英国文坛一颗耀眼的新星。她的作品先后获得约翰·卢埃林·里斯奖、E. M. 福斯特奖、兰布达文学奖等众多文学大奖，她也因文学上的贡献荣获大英帝国勋章（OBE）。2012年，她继科尔姆·托宾担任曼彻斯特大学的创意写作教授。 温特森的作品主要探索了肉体和想象之间的边界、性别特性和性向认同等主题，代表作有小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》《给樱桃以性别》《激情》《写在身体上》《苹果笔记本》《守望灯塔》，自传《正常就好，何必快乐？》等。 译者简介 于是，著名青年文学翻译...(展开全部)

It's never too late to make a fresh financial start. As Richards writes: "We've all made mistakes, but now it's time to give yourself permission to review those mistakes, identify your personal behavior gaps, and make a plan to avoid them in the future. The goal isn't to make the 'perfect' decision about money every time, but to do the best we can and move forward. Most of the ...(展开全部)

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师，被誉为“结构现实主义大师”，囊获全球重要文学大奖，包括诺贝尔文学奖：1985年获海明威文学奖，1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖，1988年获美洲金质奖章，1994年获西班牙文学的*高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖，1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖，2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖，1976年被推选为国际笔会主席，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is ‘a work of undeniable power and skill’ (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy. The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish ...(展开全部)

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A ...(展开全部)

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will...(展开全部)

In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovitch reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his childre...(展开全部)