From the author of the critically acclaimed England's Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagers—as we have come to define them—were not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new ce...(展开全部)

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man’s quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author’s preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment.

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man’s quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author’s preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment.

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

In 1945, just as the war was ending, 'the teenager' arrived. This is the story of how we got to that moment - the century and a half of ferment, folly, and angst that created a separate Teen Age in Europe and America. Jon Savage goes back to 1875 (when the first bestselling teenage memoir appeared and the first teenage mass murderer was tried), and takes us all the way through ...(展开全部)

赫尔曼·黑塞（Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962），德国作家，20世纪最伟大的文学家之一。以《德米安：埃米尔·辛克莱的彷徨少年时》、《荒原狼》、《悉达多》、《玻璃球游戏》等作品享誉世界文坛。1923年46岁入瑞士籍。1946年获诺贝尔文学奖。

司马辽太郎，（1923～1996年），日本历史小说家。生于大阪。原名福田定一，其笔名乃取自“远不及司马迁之太郎”之意。1943年毕业于大阪外语学院蒙语系，1946年入京都新日本新闻社，丽年后任产经新闻社记者，同时发表作品。1961年开始专业作家的生活。司马的小说，把历史上推动生产力向前发展的人物放在革新与守旧势力尖锐斗争的环境中，从各方面来歌颂他们的“励精图治”和“文治武功”。多卷本历史小说代表作《龙马行进》，叙述十九世纪六十年代明治维新从酝酿到胜利的全过程，反映了封建社会没落时期的黑暗政治以及错综复杂的阶级矛盾和斗争，赞扬进步阶层的反抗精神和变革愿望。司马善于以历史事件构成波澜壮阔的艺术画面，并采用多线索推进的写法，叙述长达数十年的历史，前因后果比较清晰。在他的小说中，经常以冷静、理性的历史观来审查主观的、非理性的意识形态。因此，有人称他的历史小说...(展开全部)

The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

艾丽丝·门罗（1931——），加拿大女作家，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming , Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English punk movement" ( The New York Times ). Now, in Teenage , he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in...(展开全部)