The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world — to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru’s widowed mother is romanced b...(展开全部)

Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual characterization of Japan. Because they could be mass produced, ukiyo-e works w...(展开全部)

A collection of literary essays and criticism by the award-winning author of The Golden Notebook and The Sweetest Dream includes her reviews of classic books, commentaries on world politics, and insights into the role of personal experience in the creation of literature.

迈克·雷斯尼克（1942- ）美国著名科幻作家，从1989年至今，他获得过5次“雨果奖”（提名37次）、1次“星云奖”（提名11次）。此外，他还在美国、英国、法国、日本、西班牙、克罗地亚和波兰等国获得了64个科幻奖项。1995年，他获得了新英格兰科幻小说协会颁发的终身成就奖“云雀奖”。他的作品被译成25种语言，在世界范围内广泛流传。 截至目前，雷斯尼克创作了75部中长篇小说、200多篇短篇小说。他不仅是多产的作家，也是杰出的编辑，曾担任过40多本科幻选集的主编，培养出了众多很好的科幻作家，包括《纽约时报》畅销书作家。

This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu’s poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various con...(展开全部)

Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual characterization of Japan. Because they could be mass produced, ukiyo-e works w...(展开全部)

迈克·雷斯尼克（1942- ）美国著名科幻作家，从1989年至今，他获得过5次“雨果奖”（提名37次）、1次“星云奖”（提名11次）。此外，他还在美国、英国、法国、日本、西班牙、克罗地亚和波兰等国获得了64个科幻奖项。1995年，他获得了新英格兰科幻小说协会颁发的终身成就奖“云雀奖”。他的作品被译成25种语言，在世界范围内广泛流传。 截至目前，雷斯尼克创作了75部中长篇小说、200多篇短篇小说。他不仅是多产的作家，也是杰出的编辑，曾担任过40多本科幻选集的主编，培养出了众多很好的科幻作家，包括《纽约时报》畅销书作家。