The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first clas...(展开全部)

伦纳德·伯恩斯坦（Leonard Bernstein，1918—1990） 举世闻名的指挥巨匠，古典乐大师。曾任纽约爱乐乐团音乐总监，并带领该团进入黄金时代，指挥过全球主要管弦乐团，所获荣誉众多。伦纳德·伯恩斯坦对于人类艺术的贡献，绝不仅仅在于作曲、演奏、指挥领域，曾通过一系列电视节目向大众普及古典音乐，力图拆除古典乐与公众之间的高墙。留下了一大批宝贵的录音和录像遗产。 庄加逊 译者，毕业于上海交通大学，外国文艺理论硕士。译有《乐之边园：格伦·古尔德文集》《科普兰论音乐》《萨蒂音乐涂鸦》《音乐的极境：萨义德古典乐评集》《为什么是马勒？》《激情精神：阿尔玛·马勒的一生》等，编译有《雅纳切克私信集》，著有《陌上花来：回归与远行》。常年为《三联爱乐》等杂志撰文。

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with th...(展开全部)

霍华德•雅各布森，英国犹太裔小说家、专栏作家以及电台主持人。雅各布森曾在悉尼大学授课三年，回到英国后，在剑桥大学塞尔文学院任教。其主要作品有：《强大的华尔泽》、《此刻谁抱歉？》、《卡鲁奇之夜》（入围2006年布克奖长名单）、《爱情迫害狂》等。2010年凭喜剧小说《芬克勒问题》摘得布克奖。雅各布森最擅长描写犹太裔英国人的困境，并以此题材创作喜剧小说而出名，他的写作风格睿智幽默，辛辣讽刺，自诩为 “犹太裔的简•奥斯丁”。

Nina Pelikan Straus explores Dostoevsky's major works with a focus on his women characters, his references to rape and men's abuse of females, and his construction of 'the feminine'. Intended not to impose feminist ideology upon the writer, but rather to enlarge feminist discourse through Dostoevsky, the chapters explore new readings with a sense of their positioning at the end...(展开全部)

Nina Pelikan Straus explores Dostoevsky's major works with a focus on his women characters, his references to rape and men's abuse of females, and his construction of 'the feminine'. Intended not to impose feminist ideology upon the writer, but rather to enlarge feminist discourse through Dostoevsky, the chapters explore new readings with a sense of their positioning at the end...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".