托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe, 1900—1938） 20世纪美国文学最重要的小说家之一。1900年生于北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗莱纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克·凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。 其代表作有四部自传体长篇小说：《天使，望故乡》（Look Homeward，Angel，1929）、《时间和河流》（Of Time and the River，1935）、《蛛网和岩石》（The Web and the Rock，1939）和《你再也不能回家乡了》（You can’t Go Home Again，1940）。...(展开全部)

Secret societies, assassination plots, cover-ups, and covert actions - these are the theories and shadows that influence politics, business, and even our daily lives. The truth is always out there, but what truth you believe depends on what you already know. Categorized into specific areas of interest, Conspiracy Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the many and varied theorie...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature ...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)

Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature ...(展开全部)

An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.

The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America’s sea―bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience―and ye...(展开全部)