During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage many of which have been unavailable for some time are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonis...(展开全部)

G.M.马列特多次提名阿加莎奖（最佳处女作、最佳小说），2008年《安逸作家之死》提名为阿加莎最佳处女作奖。2014年，《异教徒的春天》（2013年作品）被阿加莎奖和黛丽丝奖提名。

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challeng...(展开全部)

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume "Dostoevsky" is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language - and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the...(展开全部)

Covering the writing waterfront-from basics on verb tense to the value of forming a "support group"-Poynter Institute vice president Clark offers tips, tricks and techniques for anyone putting fingers to keyboard. The best assets in Clark's book are in the "workshop" sections that conclude each chapter and list strategies for incorporating the material covered in each lesson (m...(展开全部)

[美]娜塔莉·戈德堡（Natalie Goldberg） 诗人、画家、作家、书写教练，至今已出版作品14部。 1986年出版代表作《写出我心》，成为北美教授写作及写作治疗的人必读、必引述的经典。而她倡导的“用写作来修行”，使她成为了世界级的写作名师。 她结合禅修和书写开办“真正的秘密”写作营，一教三十余年，学生来自世界各地。她认为写作跟修行一样，都要学会信任自己的心，以专注、创意和开放的态度，回到当下，洞察生活的细节，正视内心真实的模样。

[美]娜塔莉·戈德堡（Natalie Goldberg） 诗人、画家、作家、书写教练，至今已出版作品14部。 1986年出版代表作《写出我心》，成为北美教授写作及写作治疗的人必读、必引述的经典。而她倡导的“用写作来修行”，使她成为了世界级的写作名师。 她结合禅修和书写开办“真正的秘密”写作营，一教三十余年，学生来自世界各地。她认为写作跟修行一样，都要学会信任自己的心，以专注、创意和开放的态度，回到当下，洞察生活的细节，正视内心真实的模样。

The Careful Writer is a concise yet thorough handbook, covering in more than 2,000 alphabetized entries the problems that give (or should give) writers pause before they set words to paper. It is perhaps the liveliest and most entertaining reference work for writers of our time—delighting while it instructs and amusing even as it scolds and cajoles the reader into skillful, per...(展开全部)