[英]威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 小说家，剧作家。现实主义文学代表人物。 毕业于伦敦圣托马斯医学院，后弃医从文。 在现实主义文学没落期坚持创作，并奠定文学史上经典地位。 倡导以无所偏袒的观察者角度写作，包容看待人性， 尽可能保持作品的客观性和真实性， 反对将小说当作"布道的讲坛"而交由读者自行判断。 1946年，设立萨黙塞特·毛姆奖，奖励优秀年轻作家。 1952年，牛津大学授予名誉博士学位。 1954年，英王室授予"荣誉侍从"称号。

[英]威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 小说家，剧作家。现实主义文学代表人物。 毕业于伦敦圣托马斯医学院，后弃医从文。 在现实主义文学没落期坚持创作，并奠定文学史上经典地位。 倡导以无所偏袒的观察者角度写作，包容看待人性， 尽可能保持作品的客观性和真实性， 反对将小说当作"布道的讲坛"而交由读者自行判断。 1946年，设立萨黙塞特·毛姆奖，奖励优秀年轻作家。 1952年，牛津大学授予名誉博士学位。 1954年，英王室授予"荣誉侍从"称号。

In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 厄恩利·布拉德福德（Ernle Bradford，1922—1986）是著名的英国历史学家，专精地中海和海军方面主题。布拉德福德曾是一名水手，扬帆泛舟于地中海上近30年。第二次世界大战期间在皇家海军服役，后以驱逐舰副舰长的身份退役。他在马耳他寓居多年，供职于BBC，还是一名杂志编辑。著有《大围攻：马耳他1565》（The Great Siege: Malta 1565）、《克里斯托弗·哥伦布》（Christopher Columbus）、《汉尼拔》（Hannibal）、《尤利乌斯·凯撒：权力的追逐》（Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power）等书。 【译者简介】 杨春景，清华大学法学博士，主要关注领域为国际法、国际关系史和国际贸易，译有《建筑涌现：自然和文明形态之进化》、《次终极追问：科学与宗教的纠葛》等著...(展开全部)

"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by ...(展开全部)

An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way ...(展开全部)

Landfall and Departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman's life and of a ship's career.nFrom land to land is the most concise definition of a ship's earthly fate.' (Excerpt)

The Toilers of the Sea ranks with The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables as among Hugo's most important novels, yet is less well known, in part because the only English translation was inaccurate, stilted, and incomplete. Thus, James Hogarth's excellent new translation -- the first rendering of the complete novel -- is a noteworthy event; in it, the clarity and power of...(展开全部)

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen la...(展开全部)

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world’s six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, a blessing and a battlefield. It has inspired writers from H...(展开全部)