An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to ...(展开全部)

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Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle "An Autobiography". It recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to ...(展开全部)

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions of Nat Turner is nar...(展开全部)

威廉•斯泰隆(1925一2006) 1925年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学。他是美国历史上最伟大的作家之一。1953年，长篇小说首作《在黑暗中躺下》获得了罗马美国学院和美国艺术与文学学院共同颁发的罗马奖。1968年，《纳特•特纳的自白》为其赢得了普利策文学奖。1980年,《苏菲的选择》获得了美国国家图书奖。他还著有《纵火焚屋》《静静的灰尘》《看得见的黑暗》等作品。1996年，在F.S.菲茨杰拉德诞辰100周年之际，威廉•斯泰隆获得了首届菲茨杰拉德奖。

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Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, "The Confessions" is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his "Confessions" he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, whe...(展开全部)

奥古斯丁 AureliusAugustinus 354 -430 欧洲中世纪哲学家、神学家、罗马基督教拉丁教父的主要代表、新柏拉图主义者、基督教教父哲学的完成者。 生平与著作 354年11月13曰奥古斯丁生于北非的塔加斯特(临近历史名城迦太基)，即今阿尔及利亚的苏克阿赫腊斯。母亲是虔诚的基督徒,父亲是异教徒。奥古斯丁家庭并不富裕,勉强在本地和马道拉、迦太基等城学完当时罗马帝国规定的三级制教育。374～386年，他先后在塔加斯特、迦太基、罗马、米兰等地教授语法和修辞。他在青年时代生活极为放荡,但求知欲甚强,思想颇为敏锐。善恶问题是他毕生思考的主题。他一度信奉摩尼教，接受它的善恶二元论学说，认为恶起源于某种实体。他通过学习新柏拉图学派的著作和在米兰大主教安布罗斯的影响下，33岁时放弃摩尼教，皈依基督教。他一反过去的放荡生活，抛弃情人和未婚妻，过清心寡欲的...(展开全部)

This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had "a horror of destroying documents," and until his death in 1930, they accumulated t...(展开全部)