Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, including Blizzard of One , winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990, and currently teaches at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.

“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.” American short-story writer Kate Chopin’s tale “The Story of an Hour” was first published in Vogue in 1894 and has endured to become one of her most beloved works. Upon learning of her husband’s death, Louise Mallard conside...(展开全部)

“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.” American short-story writer Kate Chopin’s tale “The Story of an Hour” was first published in Vogue in 1894 and has endured to become one of her most beloved works. Upon learning of her husband’s death, Louise Mallard conside...(展开全部)

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

作者簡介 大衛．哥德布拉特David Goldblatt 大衛．哥德布拉特（David Goldblatt），一九六五年生於倫敦，現居布里斯托，對托特納姆熱刺隊（Tottenham Hotspur）和布里斯托流浪者隊（Bristol Rovers）的愛不分上下。 哥德布拉特是知名的運動作家、廣播主持人、運動社會學家、大學講師與專欄記者。他為 BBC 廣播製作足球紀錄節目，也是《衛報》、《觀察家報》、《泰晤士報文學增刊》、《金融時報》、《新左派評論》、《新政治家》、《展望》等報章雜誌的專欄記者，擔任《世界足球年鑑》（World Football Yearbook）的編輯，並在布里斯托大學（University of Bristol）、德蒙福特大學運動史與運動文化跨國研究中心（International Centre for Sports History...(展开全部)

In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and subsequent bust.

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be ...(展开全部)