作者 薇拉·凯瑟(Willa Cather，1873-1947)，美国著名小说家，编剧，诗人。她擅长以自幼熟悉的西部边疆生活为题材，创作富有地方特色的作品。1944年，她作为美国文学艺术院院士，获得该院最高奖。近年美国评论界认为她是20世纪美国ZUI杰出的小说家之一。她的作品被誉为美国文学的“珍珠”。代表作有《啊，拓荒者！》《我的安东尼娅》《我们的一员》等。 译者 胡蝶，1989年生，重庆人。同济大学博士，现为上海理工大学讲师。主要研究美国西部文学，特别是现当代美国西部小说。出版专著《科马克·麦卡锡对美国西部小说传统模式的颠覆与重构》。发表科研论文《走下神坛的美国亚当——论<边境三部曲>对西部牛仔形象的重构》《麦卡锡<路>中的不确定性研究》等。

Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the life of Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan who refuses to settle for a life others have imagined for him. Alienated from his parents and rejected by his wife, Wheeler finally finds his destiny on the bloody battlefields of World War I.

This stirring novel about World War I won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In the lucid, unadorned prose that were her hallmark, Cather brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all.

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by...(展开全部)

Robert Kagan gives us a picture of the world today in all its complexity and its simplicity. This is a world where America is dominant but cannot dominate, where the struggle for power and prestige goes on as it always has. Power is at the service of ideas, but the key ideas are also ideas about power: democracy and autocracy. All this in a hundred pages, with style, energy and...(展开全部)

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between weste...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

费里尼是电影史上公认最伟大的天才导演之一，与英格玛•伯格曼、安德•塔尔科夫斯基并称为世界现代艺术电影的“圣三位一体”，导演过《甜蜜的生活》《阿玛柯德》《八部半》《大路》《卡比利亚之夜》《浪荡儿》等20世纪最伟大电影，获得过五次奥斯卡金奖和无数各种电影节大奖。他的电影是欧洲艺术电影难以逾越的高峰，引导了战后意大利的精神进程。 费里尼早年做过漫画杂志的专栏漫画家，发表了一系列漫画。受到荣格分析心理学的影响，他长期用漫画记录梦境，形成一部可与荣格《红书》媲美的《梦书》。

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)