Fame was just around the corner when Sinclair Lewis published Free Air in 1919, a year before Main Street. The latter novel zeroed in on the town of Gopher Prairie; the former stopped there briefly and then took the reader by automobile in search of Ameri
Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry-埃尔默龙门
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait o
Sinclair Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn; the romantic adventures of a gentle man-我们的雷恩先生;温柔男人的浪漫冒险
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Sinclair Lewis Dodsworth-多兹沃思
First published in 1929, Dodsworth tells the story of a young American couple who moves to Europe. When the woman becomes involved with another man, her husband must choose between forgiving his wife or abandoning the relationship, & Europe, forever.
Sinclair Lewis Work of Art-艺术品
In WORK OF ART three generations of the Weagle family grow up in and work for boarding houses, inns and hotels. Focus is on two brothers, Myron and Ora, of the second generation. Poetic, ethereal Ora could not wait to escape hotel drudgery, though never t
Sinclair Lewis Babbitt-巴比特
Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Lite
Sinclair Lewis Main Street-大街
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer.
Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to re
Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to re
Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith-阿罗史密斯
Arrowsmith is often described as the first "scientific" novel. The books explores medical and scientific themes in a fictional way and it is difficult to think of an earlier book that does this. Although he was not a doctor, Sinclair Lewis'
Luigi Pirandello shoot-拍摄
Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot! is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, Shoot! documents the infancy
Huma Abedin Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds-两者兼有:许多世界的人生
作者:Huma Abedin
书名:Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds《两者兼有:许多世界的人生》
简介:In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillar
书名:Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds《两者兼有:许多世界的人生》
简介:In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillar
François Mauriac Viper's Tangle-毒蛇缠结
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic writers, Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them—a
François Mauriac Therese Desqueyroux-德斯奎罗酒店
Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte au'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu. Enfermée dans la chambre, Thérèse tombe dans une prostra
Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago-日瓦戈医生
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet author
Ivo Andrić The Pasha's Concubine, and Other Tales-帕夏的小妾和其他故事
=Mara the courtesan
“The Pasha’s Concubine” (1931) is the story of a young girl who catches the eye of a Turkish army officer and is summoned to his house. She appeals to him because of her extreme youth – she is not quite sixteen and the reason he gives
“The Pasha’s Concubine” (1931) is the story of a young girl who catches the eye of a Turkish army officer and is summoned to his house. She appeals to him because of her extreme youth – she is not quite sixteen and the reason he gives
Ivo Andrić The Slave Girl and Other Stories-奴隶女孩和其他故事
A string of newly translated as well as already published stories by a real classic of East European literature. Andrić, novelist and short story writer of Croatian descent who identified himself as a Serbian, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Litera
Ivo Andrić Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan-奥马尔·帕夏·拉塔斯:苏丹元帅
Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan’s armies, and as the book
Ivo Andrić The Woman from Sarajevo(Bosnian Trilogy #3)-来自萨拉热窝的女人
Gospođica (The Woman from Sarajevo) by Andrić was originally published in 1945. and is one of the three novels that make up the "Bosnian Trilogy". The other two are Bosnian Chronicle and The Bridge on the Drina.
The novel is set in the cities
The novel is set in the cities
Ivo Andrić Bosnian Chronicle(Bosnian Trilogy #2)-波斯尼亚纪事
Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its
Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina(Bosnian Trilogy #1)-德里纳河上的桥
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961.
A great stone bridge bui
A great stone bridge bui
Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre : basic writings-Jean Paul Sartre:基本写作
Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principal founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics a
Jean-Paul Sartre The Wall-墙
'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exq
Yasunari Kawabata The Dancing Girl of Izu and other Stories-伊豆舞女及其他故事
Influential Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fiction with this new collection of stories that parallel major events and themes in his life. In the lyrical prose that is his signature, these 23 tales reflect
Yasunari Kawabata The Sound of the Mountain-山声
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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previo
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previo
Yasunari Kawabata Snow Country-雪乡
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing
Samuel Beckett Echo's Bones-埃科的骨头
'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher