John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lup...(展开全部)

约翰•欧文John Irving 当代文坛无可争议的小说宗师，被公认为在世作家中数一数二的角色。他的作品在赢得文坛推崇的同时深受大众喜爱，被翻译成35种文字，世界各地的书店里几乎都能买到欧文的小说。评论界认为欧文是罕见的承袭了现实主义文学精髓的作家，将他誉为“狄更斯再世”。 ◆日本作家村上春树表示，欧文是自己的文学偶像。他曾将欧文作品译介到日本，采访过欧文，还与欧文在纽约中央公园一同慢跑。 ◆欧文作品三次入围美国国家图书奖，1980年凭借《盖普眼中的世界》摘得桂冠。 ◆欧文作品在好莱坞也炙手可热，先后有5部小说被改编成电影，他本人也是一名杰出编剧。1999年，欧文以《苹果酒屋的规则》拿下奥斯卡金像奖改编剧本奖。 ◆欧文代表作《苹果酒屋的规则》《独居的一年》和《第四只手》均登上过《纽约时报》畅销榜榜首，成为当年炙手可热的经典之作。 ◆欧文1942年生于...(展开全部)

出生于伊朗，从小在社会的底层与中层之间流动，满眼都是社会与人生的创痕，后在美国和瑞士接受高等教育，当代西方最有实力的小说作家。代表作《孔雀哀鸣》（Cry of the Peacock）、《信仰大道上的月光》（Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith）等问世，风行全球，令整个世界文坛大开眼界，一些评论家将之媲美于马尔克斯。曾负责为美国国防部研究伊朗政治，经常就伊朗犹太人历史和流亡主题发表演讲。目前，那海女士与家人居住在洛杉矶，并在南加州大学教授小说写作。

The vicissitudes of the leading members of the newly propertied Forsyte family are followed in this captivating series set at the turn of the century. London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered--gloves, waistcoats, feathers, and frocks--to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family is intrigued but wary of this stranger ...(展开全部)

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...(展开全部)

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.

（美）考德维纳•史密斯Cordwainer Smith（1913~1966） 享誉国际的科幻小说大师，国际上设立有“考德维纳•史密斯再发现奖”，用以表彰那些对科幻文学有特殊创新贡献的作家，相比一般科幻小说作家，考德维纳•史密斯二战期间在中国、法国、日本等国家都曾居住工作过，熟悉东西方文化，他的创作更蕴含东方哲学与反战思想。 幼时因父亲军人和外交官的职业，考德维纳接触了多种文化，能说六种语言，曾认孙中山先生为其教父，取中文名为林白乐。二战时，他受军方派任前往中国，发挥其外交专长。战后以上校的军衔荣归。然而，考德维纳最不为人知的身份便是科幻小说家，他并不多产，科幻作家的身份也是直到过世后才由女儿公开。 在科幻小说日益成熟、作品如雨后春笋不断涌出的年代，考德维纳·史密斯更偏向严肃的哲学与反思，最早于一九五○年发表的《审视者的徒劳人生》是“人类补完计划宇宙”...(展开全部)

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals tur...(展开全部)

1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)