杰里·本特利 （Jerry Bentley），1949年生，美国夏威夷大学教授，《世界史》杂志主编（1990年至今），中国首都师范大学历史系特聘教授。治史范围广阔，对近代早期欧洲文化史等领域有深入研究，在世界历史的研究与教育领域具有重要影响。赫伯特·齐格勒（Herbert Ziegler），美国夏威夷大学副教授，兼任《世界史》杂志编辑，专长20世纪欧洲的社会史与政治史。

Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun's early works were of forceful and polemic before he became more compassionate in his later work, drawing inspiration from the country people of his native Norway. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil. He has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

Mysteries (1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the age, brings comfort to the insulted and injured and gains the love of two women...(展开全部)

珍妮特•沃尔斯（Jeannette Walls），美国著名记者，撰有《闲聊：流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊：流言如何变成新闻，新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。二○○五年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》，首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历，从而蜚声文坛。派拉蒙公司买下了此书的电影版权，因《饥饿游戏》在好莱坞大火特火的女星詹妮弗-劳伦斯将担纲主演，和李安合作《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》的制片人吉尔-奈特担当电影制片人。 目前此书已经销售出三十二国版权。二○○九年珍妮特•沃尔斯再度推出新作《半驯之马》（Half Broke Horses），被《纽约时报》评为二○○九年十大好书。这两部作品至今依然高踞各大畅销书排行榜。就在今年7月份，《纽约时报》非虚构类畅销书周榜上，《玻璃城堡》仍名列第7位，距其出版时间已经8年了。

在线阅读本书 For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails. The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say nothing of the billion-dollar...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent,...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent,...(展开全部)