作者简介： 亚当•弗格森（Adam Fergusson），1932年出生于苏格兰。剑桥大学历史系毕业后，曾任《格拉斯哥先驱报》《统计学家报》与《泰晤士报》记者。他担任过欧洲议会成员、英国外交部特别顾问及欧洲国际工商事务顾问等数职。目前任英国皇家文学学会会员。

作者简介： 亚当•弗格森（Adam Fergusson），1932年出生于苏格兰。剑桥大学历史系毕业后，曾任《格拉斯哥先驱报》《统计学家报》与《泰晤士报》记者。他担任过欧洲议会成员、英国外交部特别顾问及欧洲国际工商事务顾问等数职。目前任英国皇家文学学会会员。

The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art.

The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art.

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery.In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy.Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staple...(展开全部)

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life.The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the pas...(展开全部)

［爱尔兰］萨缪尔·贝克特（1906—1989），爱尔兰著名戏剧家、小说家、诗人，荒诞派奠基人之一。1969年因其作品“以新的小说和戏剧的形式从现代人的窘困中获得崇高”而荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy. The sound I liked best had nothing noble...(展开全部)

This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann, his nurse Moll and other figures weave in and out of his vision and his imagination...(展开全部)

［爱尔兰］萨缪尔·贝克特（1906—1989），爱尔兰著名戏剧家、小说家、诗人，荒诞派奠基人之一。1969年因其作品“以新的小说和戏剧的形式从现代人的窘困中获得崇高”而荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。