George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

约翰·伦勒希（John Renesch），是一名成功的企业家，也是一名备受尊敬的商业未来学家，他还是全球商业学会（The World Busniess Academy）的创始人兼董事会成员， Long Now基金会的成员。Long Now 基金会由传奇人物斯图尔特·布兰德（Setwart Brand）于1996年创建，其目的是为传承人类文明，以万年的时间来度量人类。该基金会囊括全球各界精英，凯文·凯利 （Kevin Kelly）、 克里斯·安德森 （Chris Anderson）都是该基金会中的一员。 约翰是一名成功的企业家，他在商界叱诧风云四十余年,他活跃于制造业，广告业，地产投资业。直到上世纪八十年代中期，他对于未来的忧虑促使他进行了一段相当长时间的自省，之后，他踏上了他新的旅途。 在大半个九十年代间 ，约翰担任新型领导者出版社（New Lead...(展开全部)

约翰·伦勒希（John Renesch），是一名成功的企业家，也是一名备受尊敬的商业未来学家，他还是全球商业学会（The World Busniess Academy）的创始人兼董事会成员， Long Now基金会的成员。Long Now 基金会由传奇人物斯图尔特·布兰德（Setwart Brand）于1996年创建，其目的是为传承人类文明，以万年的时间来度量人类。该基金会囊括全球各界精英，凯文·凯利 （Kevin Kelly）、 克里斯·安德森 （Chris Anderson）都是该基金会中的一员。 约翰是一名成功的企业家，他在商界叱诧风云四十余年,他活跃于制造业，广告业，地产投资业。直到上世纪八十年代中期，他对于未来的忧虑促使他进行了一段相当长时间的自省，之后，他踏上了他新的旅途。 在大半个九十年代间 ，约翰担任新型领导者出版社（New Lead...(展开全部)

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Every Sunday Mrs Badger walks up the mountain near her house. She knows the name of every animal and every plant on the way and helps everyone in need. One particular Sunday she meets a little cat, Leo, who would like to join her on her journey. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and many more walks up the mountain. What will happen when Mrs Badger is too old to jo...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a...(展开全部)