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《The Bonesetter's Daughter》 / 谭恩美 / 英文
...ese documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mothe...
《The Poetry of Langston Hughes》 / 蓝斯顿·休斯 / 英文
...is music was sung by black, beaten but unbeatable throats. In 1958, Hughes recorded his poetry to the accompaniment of the music of jazz and blues artists such as Charles Mingus. Have you ever heard poetry recited to music? Langston Hughes believed in using his art to get across his feelings about p...
《The Bloody chamber And Other Stories》 / 安吉拉·卡特 / 英文
... the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man. Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in...
《A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man》 / 乔伊斯 / 英文
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.The novel is a hig...
《Great Days》 / 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 / 英文
Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, ...
《Fingersmith》 / 莎拉·沃特斯 / 英文
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of M...
《THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW》 / 华盛顿·欧文 / 英文
The 1820 Washington Irving classic. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a chilling tale of romantic rivalry and supernatural terror. The story begins with Ichabod Crane becoming the new schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod comes to the idea of marrying the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel.In the first of the...
《The Secret Rose》 / 叶芝 / 英文
Offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles--beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken, sardonic treatment of sexuality.CONTENTS:TO THE SECRET ROSE THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST OUT OF THE ROSE THE WISDOM OF THE KING THE HEART OF THE SPRING THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AN...
《The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt(Excerpt)》 / 威廉·格纳齐诺 / 英文
...d other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germanys highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.Employed by a high...
《The Call of the Wild》 / Jack London / 英文
...d and ,by the time he was ten,London was an avid reader,checking books out of the public library.London left school at age thirteen to work a number of odd jobs-as a cannery worker ,sailor ,oyster pirate,and fish patroller.In1893,unemloyed workers marched in protest against the econormic crisis,and ...
《The Poetry of Pablo Neruda》 / 巴勃罗·聂鲁达 / 英文
...'s career as a poet began with love poetry and ended with love poetry. One of his very last works, written only days before his death, is The End, a love poem to [his wife] Matilde. There were, of course, changes; there were deviations during the period of Residence on Earth, for example; there were...
《The Poetry of Maya Angelou》 / 玛雅·盎格鲁 / 英文
...美国总统Bill Clinton的就职仪式上特邀朗诵献诗On the Pulse of the Morning，从而成为美国历史上继Robert Frost之后的官方诗人。Still I Rise是Maya Angelou的诗歌代表作，是继Martin Luther King的I Have a Dream之后美国黑人争取民权的又一纪念碑式的...
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