This is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over twenty years and drawn from literary journals and magazines, to be made available to the wider public. The earliest, "Marriage is a Private Affair" (1952), dates back to his student days at Ibadan, Nigeria, while the latest, "Vengeful Creditor" and "Civil Peace" (1971), are stories of the Nigerian civ...(展开全部)

莫里·古皮提尔·曼宁 Molly Guptill Manning，身兼作者、律师双职，著述颇丰，著有《以法莲市场的神话》(THE MYTH OF EPHRAIM TUTT) 等，作品多见于《哥伦比亚法律和艺术》(THE COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW A ND THE ARTS) 等诸多高端刊物之中。

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clezio's creation. Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects - ad...(展开全部)

In his War Books Cyril Falls expresses uncertainty whether this book should be classed as fiction or reminiscence, eventually plumping for the former but based on personal experiences. The Times Literary Supplement of the day comments that he [Renn] recorded his impressions with that extreme simplicity which is one of the highest forms of literary art. The author is the central...(展开全部)

路德维希 • 雷恩（Ludwig Renn），原名阿诺尔德 • 维特 • 冯 • 格尔瑟瑙，1889年出生，1979年逝世，德国作家。曾是德国贵族，代表作有纪实小说《战争》和《战后》，后用成名作《战争》里的主人公名字作为自己的笔名。 西班牙内战时期，曾任国际第11纵队参谋长和台尔曼营营长。1939~1947年流亡墨西哥。1947年回国，任人类学教授、德累斯顿文化研究院院长和萨克森文化联盟主席等职。1950年迁居柏林，成为职业作家。

路德维希 • 雷恩（Ludwig Renn），原名阿诺尔德 • 维特 • 冯 • 格尔瑟瑙，1889年出生，1979年逝世，德国作家。曾是德国贵族，代表作有纪实小说《战争》和《战后》，后用成名作《战争》里的主人公名字作为自己的笔名。 西班牙内战时期，曾任国际第11纵队参谋长和台尔曼营营长。1939~1947年流亡墨西哥。1947年回国，任人类学教授、德累斯顿文化研究院院长和萨克森文化联盟主席等职。1950年迁居柏林，成为职业作家。

In his War Books Cyril Falls expresses uncertainty whether this book should be classed as fiction or reminiscence, eventually plumping for the former but based on personal experiences. The Times Literary Supplement of the day comments that he [Renn] recorded his impressions with that extreme simplicity which is one of the highest forms of literary art. The author is the central...(展开全部)

Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author’s own years in a USSR prison camp. Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second ...(展开全部)