文字作者，艾诺·桑卡德（Arnold Sundgaard），诗人，剧作家，1909年出生于一个挪威家庭里，卒于2006年。1935年他从美国威斯康辛州立大学获得英语学士学位后，到耶鲁大学戏剧学院进修，学成后曾在哥伦比亚大学，伯明顿大学和德克萨斯州立大学教授戏剧。 Arnold一生创作过很多经典戏剧，多部剧目在百老汇上演，其中《Giants in the Earth》曾获普利策音乐奖。晚年转向儿童图画书的创作，他有位久负盛名的搭档——Eric Carl，两人于1988年共同创作了《小羊和蝴蝶》。 绘画作者，艾瑞·卡尔（Eric Carle），1929年出生于纽约，兼具写作与插画能力的绘本创作作家，投身于儿童文学的创作超过40年，致力于为儿童打造一个自由、充满想象的童话世界，共创作了70余本有趣、美丽、富含想像力的作品，荣获多项世界著名儿童文学奖。艾瑞的...(展开全部)

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion...(展开全部)

讲述的是20世纪50年代末期，一个男人生活在风景如画的加利福尼亚的一个小城镇里，过着简朴的生活，但他却渐渐发现他所居住的整个小城只不过是为了让他感到满足而虚构的一个活动场所……

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world l...(展开全部)

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world l...(展开全部)

讲述的是20世纪50年代末期，一个男人生活在风景如画的加利福尼亚的一个小城镇里，过着简朴的生活，但他却渐渐发现他所居住的整个小城只不过是为了让他感到满足而虚构的一个活动场所……

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion...(展开全部)

A young couple begins their married lives on the eve of the Civil War. The story of the poor people of the American South who never owned a slave nor planned to fight a war.

凯洛琳·米勒（Caroline Miller, 1904-1992）出生于美国佐治亚州的维克罗斯市，后随作为英语文学教授的丈夫移居巴克斯利，在那里她观察和采访了当地的居民，并将这些材料作为创作这本书的素材。她因此书获得普利策文学奖，也是该州获得此荣誉的第一人。

1854. Part One of Five. English essayist and poet, Charles Lamb (pen name Elia), studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but w...(展开全部)