When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation. Aside from ...(展开全部)

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.The Awakening was first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century. It is widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. Chopin did not write another novel after The Awakening and had difficulty publishing stories after its release. When she died five years later, she was on her way to being forgotten. In 1960s Per Seyersted, a Norwegian literary scholar rediscovered Chopin, leading The Awakening to be remembered as the feminist fiction it is today.

Book Description: If you're stuck at the starting line, you don't need more time or permission. You don’t need to wait for a boss’s okay or to be told to push the button; you just need to poke. Poke the Box is a manifesto by bestselling author Seth Godin that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about the initiative you’re taking-– in your job or in yo...(展开全部)

Book Description: If you're stuck at the starting line, you don't need more time or permission. You don’t need to wait for a boss’s okay or to be told to push the button; you just need to poke. Poke the Box is a manifesto by bestselling author Seth Godin that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about the initiative you’re taking-– in your job or in yo...(展开全部)

THE FIRST STORY TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE SURREALIST AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA-KAEnter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira, whose denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. "The Box Man "follows its protagonists along a scooter trip through a complex landscape that oscillates between a dense city, a coun...(展开全部)

丁韪良（William Alexander Parsons Martin，1827－1916），美国北长老会派至中国的传教士，在中国生活了62年（1850—1916，其间有四年时间不在中国），曾任北京同文馆和京师大学堂的总教习。他精通中国语言和文学，对晚清中国社会有微细的观察和独到的见解，是清末在华外国学者中首屈一指的“中国通”，同时也是一位充满争议的历史人物。著有《汉学菁华》（The Lore of Cathay）和《花甲忆记》（A Cycle of Cathay）等。

丁韪良（William Alexander Parsons Martin，1827－1916），美国北长老会派至中国的传教士，在中国生活了62年（1850—1916，其间有四年时间不在中国），曾任北京同文馆和京师大学堂的总教习。他精通中国语言和文学，对晚清中国社会有微细的观察和独到的见解，是清末在华外国学者中首屈一指的“中国通”，同时也是一位充满争议的历史人物。著有《汉学菁华》（The Lore of Cathay）和《花甲忆记》（A Cycle of Cathay）等。