In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and before anyone was ready to accept that a woman could test herself physically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. It was, and still is, a feat more incredible and uncommon than scaling Mount Everest. Upon her return...(展开全部)

The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world. Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Seeing a cute animal triggers some of the ...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature...

作者： 乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell，1903—1950)，英国记者、小说家、散文家和评论家。 1903年生于印度，在英国成长。少年时入读著名的伊顿公学，毕业后因成绩一般、家境不富裕无力攻读大学，考取了公务员，被派到缅甸任警察。1927年辞去公职回到伦敦，开始从事文学创作。1936年，参加了西班牙内战。因伤回国后又被划入左派，不得不流亡法国。二战中，在英国广播公司（BBC）从事宣传工作。后来又从事专栏书评写作。1950年死于肺病。 乔治·奥威尔一生短暂，但他以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，做出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为“一代人的冷峻良知”。代表作有《动物农庄》和《一九八四》等。 译者：董乐山（1924—1999），翻译家、作家，美国文化研究学者。1946年毕业于上海圣约翰大学英国文学系。曾任中国社会科学院美国研...(展开全部)

作者： 乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell，1903—1950)，英国记者、小说家、散文家和评论家。 1903年生于印度，在英国成长。少年时入读著名的伊顿公学，毕业后因成绩一般、家境不富裕无力攻读大学，考取了公务员，被派到缅甸任警察。1927年辞去公职回到伦敦，开始从事文学创作。1936年，参加了西班牙内战。因伤回国后又被划入左派，不得不流亡法国。二战中，在英国广播公司（BBC）从事宣传工作。后来又从事专栏书评写作。1950年死于肺病。 乔治·奥威尔一生短暂，但他以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，做出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为“一代人的冷峻良知”。代表作有《动物农庄》和《一九八四》等。 译者：董乐山（1924—1999），翻译家、作家，美国文化研究学者。1946年毕业于上海圣约翰大学英国文学系。曾任中国社会科学院美国研...(展开全部)

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civi...(展开全部)