Subtitled ‘A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race’, The Torrents of Spring – Hemingway’s second published work – wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the ‘great race’ of writers of his generation. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O’Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while...(展开全部)

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欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威（Ernest Miller Hemingway），1899年7月21B —1961年7月2日，美国小说家。海明威被誉为美利坚民族的精神丰碑，作为“新闻体”小说的创始人，一向以“文坛硬汉”著称。其早期长篇小说《太阳照常升起》、《永别了，武器》成功塑造了美国“迷惘的一代”。20世纪三四十年代，他塑造了摆脱迷惘、悲观，为人民利益英勇战斗和无畏牺牲的反法西斯战士形象（戏剧文学《第五纵队》、长篇小说《丧钟为谁而呜》）。20世纪50年代，《老人与海》塑造了以桑提亚哥为代表的“人可以被消灭，但不能被打倒”的“硬汉形象”，并由此获得1954年的诺贝尔文学奖。海明威崇尚简洁的写作风格，对20世纪美国乃至世界文学的发展有着极其深远的影响。

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth centuryFirst published in 1926, "The Torrents of Spring" is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, "The Torrents of Spring" is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's "Dark La...(展开全部)

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-win...(展开全部)

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-win...(展开全部)

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance ...(展开全部)

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance ...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)