毛姆（1874—1965），英国小说家、剧作家、短篇小说家，其作品以都市为背景，文风朴实无华，能敏锐洞察热性。 ——《大英百科全书》

毛姆（1874—1965），英国小说家、剧作家、短篇小说家，其作品以都市为背景，文风朴实无华，能敏锐洞察热性。 ——《大英百科全书》

Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive...(展开全部)

Noted science writer Chet Raymo explores how we found our place in space and time, and what it has meant to humankind. In "Walking Zero," Chet Raymo uses the Prime Meridian--the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks--to tell the story of humandkind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the ga...(展开全部)

罗杰·塔厚尔，在书界职业生涯超过二十年，1988年起为《出版新闻》记者，见过作者逾百，参与伦敦城内文学大事无数，本书中一些灵感便来自于此。 罗杰·塔厚尔还是《卫报》、《庞奇》等媒体撰稿人，著有Poems NOT on the Underground。

Walking Literary London presents 25 carefully planned walks that explore London＇s rich literary heritage. You find it packed with stories of the lives, loves, and works of famous novelists, poets, and

Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe birds? Play in puddles after a storm? Go down to the sea to return a shell? The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent, usually alone - with his vivid dreams that let time stand still.

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, vision...(展开全部)