汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless experimentation, consummate craftsmanship and originality established him as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. He ...(展开全部)

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless experimentation, consummate craftsmanship and originality established him as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. He ...(展开全部)

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virgin...(展开全部)

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eig...(展开全部)

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profou...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinge...(展开全部)

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)