英文电子书

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwr

作者：Will Smith, Mark Manson

书名：Will

简介：One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a

作者：Brad Stone

书名：Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire《释放亚马逊:贝索斯和一个全球帝国的诞生》

简介：Almost ten years ago, Bloombe

作者：Debby Applegate

书名：Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

简介：The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life o

作者：Philip Yancey

书名：Where the Light Fell《光进入的地方》

简介：In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of to

Pablo Neruda has been hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century & was a Nobel laureat. In these memoirs he also recounts his distinguished career as a diplomat & politician, during which he came to know iconic figures including Gandhi, Che Guevara,

作者：Bill Bryson

书名：Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society

简介：Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with co

A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.

Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twent

For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and

Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction colle

A compelling account of the development of a great artist, and a portrait of the tragic character of an entire eraThe uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century. Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but t

Elias Canetti originally intended Party in the Blitz to capture an image of his time in post-war London. Well known throughout Europe, Canetti scorned British intellectuals who weren’t familiar with his work. By force of will alone he accumulated English

作者：Kati Marton

书名：The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel《总理：安吉拉·默克尔的非凡历程》

简介：The definitive biography of German Chanc

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.
 
Martin chronicles

作者：Adam Schiff

标题：Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

简介：From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald

Marpa the Translator, the eleventh-century farmer, scholar, and teacher, is one of the most renowned saints in Tibetan Buddhist history. In the West, Marpa is best known through his teacher, the Indian yogin Nâropa, and through his closest disciple, Milar

Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a peri

"An invaluable contribution to our understanding of Mahfouz and a full, descriptive survey of novels by the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning writer.  It bridges the gap for non-Arabists, and in detail gives a vivid portrait of each novel, its subject mat

作者：Solomon Northup

简介：Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued i

From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his

Biodun Jeyifo examines the relationship between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo analyzes Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by his appropriat

Dancing on Water is both a personal coming-of-age story and a sweeping look at ballet life in Russia and the United States during the golden age of dance. Elena Tchernichova takes us from her childhood during the siege of Leningrad to her mother's al

作者：Kate Bowler

书名：No Cure for Being Human

简介：The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you mo

作者：Indra Nooyi

书名：My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it

Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an