Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that 'was loaded down with a burden...(展开全部)

By the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intima...(展开全部)

By the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intima...(展开全部)

虹影 享誉世界文坛的著名女作家。1962年生于重庆。曾在北京鲁迅文学院、上海复旦大学读书。代表作有长篇小说《阿难》、《饥饿的女儿》、《K》、《一个流浪女的未来》，中短篇小说集《脏手指・瓶盖子》，散文集《危险年龄》和诗集《鱼教会鱼歌唱》等。 编著有《海外中国女作家小说精选》和《墓床》等。 曾获“英国华人诗歌一等奖”、中国台湾《联合报》短篇小说奖新诗奖、纽约《特尔菲卡》杂志“中国最优秀短篇小说奖”、三部长篇小说被译成16种文字在欧美、以色列、澳大利亚和日本等国出版。长篇自传体小说《饥饿的女儿》曾获中国台湾1997年《联合报》读书人最佳书奖。被中国权威媒体评为2000年十大人气作家之一。

托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe, 1900—1938） 20世纪美国文学最重要的小说家之一。1900年生于北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗莱纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克·凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。 其代表作有四部自传体长篇小说：《天使，望故乡》（Look Homeward，Angel，1929）、《时间和河流》（Of Time and the River，1935）、《蛛网和岩石》（The Web and the Rock，1939）和《你再也不能回家乡了》（You can’t Go Home Again，1940）。...(展开全部)

This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev...(展开全部)

石黑一雄：一九五四年生于日本长崎，五岁时随其父前往英国定居。他迄今共出版六部长篇小说，其作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。他的每部长篇小说都曾获欧美的文学奖项，其中包括一次英国布克奖(《长日留痕》)，另加三次该奖提名。

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need t...(展开全部)

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need t...(展开全部)