弗兰纳里•奥康纳（1925-1964），美国南方文学代表人物，与麦卡勒斯齐名的美国天才女作家，美国国家图书奖六十年唯一最佳小说奖得主，被公认为是继福克纳之后美国南方最杰出的作家，在世界文坛中影响巨大。 奥康纳出生于美国佐治亚州，1945 年毕业于佐治亚州女子学院，原本打算成为一位职业政治漫画家的她，在获得了州立大学提供的研究生奖学金之后，进入了著名的依阿华大学作家培训班，从此也将事业的重心转向了文学作品的创作。1946年，奥康纳在《音调》杂志上发表了人生的第一个短篇小说——《天竺葵》，并因此获得了莱因哈特（Rinehart）奖学金，之后她的创作便一发不可收拾，在一年之内写下了《理发师》《野猫》《警察》《火鸡》《火车》等多部短篇小说，并于1948年开始创作被后世奉为经典的长篇小说——《智血》。1950年，因被确诊患上红斑狼疮，奥康纳只得回到家乡农场静养...(展开全部)

The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. O’Connor wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stor...(展开全部)

Being Inclined is the first book-length study in English of the work of Felix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mark Sinclair shows how Ravaisson, in his great work Of Habit (1838), understands habit as tendency and inclination in a way that provides the basis for a philosophy of nature and a general metaphysics. In e...(展开全部)

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gi...(展开全部)

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gi...(展开全部)

2018 Sanders Book Prize The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than...(展开全部)

“Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology.” ―Dallas Morning News The brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its ideas and techniques. He pays particular atten...(展开全部)

2018 Sanders Book Prize The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than...(展开全部)

Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius. By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the inside accoun...(展开全部)