Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time

玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔(Marguerite Yourcenar，1903－1987)，出生于比利时布鲁塞尔，成长时期在法国度过，同时游历欧洲各国。1939年起定居美国东北海岸，1987年在缅因州荒山岛辞世。1980年尤瑟纳尔入选法兰西学院院士，成为该机构350年历史上的第一位女性“不朽者”。 尤瑟纳尔是一位典型的学者型作家，深受自古希腊罗马以来的欧洲人文主义传统浸润；同时，她很早就意识到欧洲中心主义的局限，一直对东方哲学和文学抱有浓厚兴趣。她的作品以渊博的学识、广阔的视野和深邃的哲思见长，包括诗歌、戏剧、随笔等，尤以小说创作著称。主要作品有小说《哈德良回忆录》《苦炼》《默默无闻的人》等，回忆录《世界迷宫》三部曲也享有盛誉。 尤瑟纳尔的语言优美典雅，纯净洗练，一向为人称道。 乔治·勒穆瓦纳，出生于法国鲁昂，已为六十余部图画书绘制了精美的插图，并获得诸多相...(展开全部)

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lo...(展开全部)

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos...(展开全部)

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)―a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their c...(展开全部)

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combine...(展开全部)

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。

在线阅读本书 Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of con...(展开全部)

The 21 stellar writers in this international short-story collection include five Nobel winners. All the stories were chosen by the writers themselves and contributed without any fee, and all profits go to fight HIV-AIDS in southern Africa. The stories are not about AIDS, but several are about war and about dying. In Njabulo Ndbele's "Death of a Son," parents fight to get their ...(展开全部)