融知识性趣味性为一体的西方文化背景知识读物，供有一定英语水平的广大读者阅读。 是英语学习者和工作者，包括英语教师、翻译人员、新闻工作者及涉外人员有价值的案头参考书。 本书篇幅：英汉对照的词条2031条，连同索引全书字数约140余万。 出自《圣经》及希腊罗马神话的约占27%， 出自文学作品及名人轶事及警句的约占45%， 出自历史典故的约占15%， 其他俗谚俚语约占13%。 本书对所有词条均举出简明的来源出处或典故，并力求准确诠释其寓意。 例句引自文学作品及文献的1600余条，包括古今著名作家，学者和政论家438名，他们的作品及文献814件， 其中绝大部分是近现代英美文学名著，最新的作品是 1991年美国A. Ripley 的《斯佳丽》， 1998年美国S. M. Hersh的《卡米洛特的阴暗面》 2003年美国克林顿夫人Hillary Clinton 的《亲历历史》； 其余1000多例句引自报刊杂志，包括西方主要的通讯社的新闻和时评，最新的引自2008年的材料。 在条目数量及覆盖面方面，比起国内同类书，算是较多和较广泛的。 引自经典及文学作品的用例，我们均核对过原著，注明其在原著中的章节，剧本的场次；对时事述评，则注明报刊的名称和刊出日期。任何人，包括编辑和读者都可以加以检验核对。 这样详尽的信息是同类书所没有的。 关键词回溯系统： 报刊上经常看到“达摩克里斯之剑”的说法，如果不知达摩克里斯的拼写，查sword就可以找到“Damocles’ sword”。 知道“Achilles’ heel ”的典故，不知道如何说，不知阿喀琉斯如何拼音，甚至忘记是谁，只要查heel就可找到“阿喀琉斯之踵”。 国民党主席吴伯雄引用过，“怕热就不要进厨房，怕热就不要做‘阁员’”。查Heat，kitchen 就可以找到“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”这话。 在ask, country可以查到肯尼迪讲过的 “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” 别问国家能为你做什么，要问你能为国家做些什么。 这样新颖的国外流行的检溯系统在国内同类书中是第一次使用的。 本书对于翻译工作者更有参考价值 在从事英译汉中常会遇到原文里包含有特别信息量的名言、隐喻和典故，积累这方面的知识 越多，对于准确理解原文越有帮助。 在国内已流行的说法，一些工具书都可以查到，但其出处及典故就未必那么详尽。 “Cinderella”（灰姑娘）,“Cinderella's godmother”也许在一些工具书查到，但“Cinderella market”恐怕就不容易找了。 还有“The Goldilocks economy”（高迪洛克丝经济），儿童故事里一个小女孩的名字，到底和经济有什么联系，读者如果有兴趣的话，翻开本书就可以找到。 本书涉及的面是很广泛的，既有古典文学，又有现代的作品，需要具备一定的文学和历史背景知识才好理解，文体有政论性的，有新闻报道，还有科技，金融，法律，甚至橄榄球、棒球的术语。收集多样化的例子，告诉读者一个翻译工作者所应该具备的应变能力。

《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》在中国赴美国的留学生中享有广泛的声誉，经过口口相传，几乎成了每一个出国留学者必备的英文写作指南。一个人必须首先了解规则才能够去打破它。这本经典的指导书是每个学生和写作者的必读之书。《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》以简短的篇幅阐明了英文朴实风格必须具备的基本原则，集中阐释了英语文法应用、写作技巧以及一般人在写作中常犯的错误等。

原为 河南大学外语系专业英语自编教材 ,1979年冬教育部邀请21所高校教师开会审稿,决定在有关院校适用。 在此次修订中,保持并发挥本书原有的特色,即"观点马列主义,内容简明扼要,语言浅显易懂,形式图文并茂",根据近年来国外的新资料和研究成果,对全书进行了认真复核,对重要篇章均作了改写或增补,并新添不少章节,补收原来遗漏的许多重要作家,全书布局也有所调整,插图相应由103幅增加到126幅.新修订版较之旧版内容更为充实丰富,形式更为生动活泼,希望能为我国高校的英语教学和社会自学英语者继续做出贡献.

《考拉小巫的英语学习日记:写给为梦想而奋斗的人》的出版是献给考拉小巫粉丝以及所有英语学习爱好者的一份礼物。在《考拉小巫的英语学习日记:写给为梦想而奋斗的人》里，考拉小巫分享了她人生中各个阶段学习英语的所有方法途径及心得体会，和她为了从根本上提高英语听、说、读、写、译能力所做的一切失败和成功的尝试及努力，以及她考过的所有英语考试的备考方案、计划安排、所用书籍及资料，书后附录中还有作者总结的英语学习资料及资源推荐。 除了分享英语学习方法外，考拉小巫还分享了她与伊甸园字幕组的亲密接触、她被全美专业排名第一的美国名校录取的成功申请经验、她在美国的求学生活以及在美语环境中关于英语学习的新思考和新感悟…… 这不仅仅是一部英语学习日记，更是一本她在彷徨、动摇和无助时的人生感悟，是关于坚持、奋斗和梦想的碎碎念，是关于她一路走来对所有的所学所得和所思所想的沉淀。从《考拉小巫的英语学习日记:写给为梦想而奋斗的人》的叙述不难看出她对梦想和奋斗的崇尚，相信这本励志书一定能激发你去为理想奋斗和拼搏。 英语怎么学，考拉小巫告诉你：单词就得这么背；听力是这样练成的；关于“看电影，学英语”；圆满的托福，圆满的2007；十天挑战GRE单词；GRE作文5.5之浓缩心得：“写”就一个字。

《现代英国名家文选》由复旦大学出版社出版。

《柏拉图以来的批评理论》(上下)(第3版)按时间顺序编排，两千多年的时间跨度，综合各种选集，对于文学研究作为一门学科的发展，提出一个公认的观点，并附有解释性的批注和关于作者的文献记录。《柏拉图以来的批评理论》(上下)(第3版)已作显著修订，以涵盖其他从事语言、修辞、哲学和社会专题研究的思想家。随着对不同哲学传统的关注增加，新版本强化和拓宽了文化研究作为一门交叉性学科的理念。完整的卷册设计方便了追溯现代文学批评理论发展的历史起源。编者建立了早期思想家和现代理论发展之间的清晰联系。

《英国文学史及选读》(1)是作者根据英国文学历史的顺序结合作品选读所编写的一套适合我国高等教院校英语专业使用的教材。由于课时有限，历史部分只作了简明扼要的概述，作品选读部分，尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。 这部“史”、“选”结合的教材，分为两册出版，第一册是 古代至18世纪英国文学，第二册是19划纪至20世纪英国文学。 ------------ 本书是作者根据英国文学历史的顺序结合作品选读所编写的一套适合我国高等教院校英语专业使用的教材。由于课时有限，历史部分只作了简明扼要的概述，作品选读部分，尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。 这部“史”、“选”结合的教材，分为两册出版，第一册是古代至18世纪英国文学，第二册是19划纪至20世纪英国文学。教材内容丰富，观点正确，选文具有代表性，可作高校外文系英语专业英国文学史和文学作品选读课程的课本或参考书，也是广大中学英语教师及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者进修的理想读物。

《英译中国现代散文选(汉英对照)》精选中国现代散文名篇五十二篇,原著均出自“五四”以来一些名家之手。书中各篇均为汉英对照，并附详细注释及对原作者的一些必要的简介。对翻译过程中可能遇到的问题，如语言难点、翻译方法、历史背景等，编译者也作了一些分析讲解。 本书可供国内外汉英文学翻译研究者、大学翻译教师、大学高年级学生、文学翻译爱好者以及广大英语学习爱好者参考阅读。

这部《英文观止》做到了佐良先生阐述的要求。纵览全书，《英文观止》的最大的特色是：规模恢宏，谋篇独到，注释详尽，思维新颖。具体地说，精选的近80位名家的佳作，既跳动着国内外学术动向的最新脉搏，亦不人云亦云，如对作者的简介中就有不少涉及他们创作时的生活细节，均取自他们的传记，为注释平添了许多生动的事例，也增加了注释的可信度，丰富了本书的学术性、知识性和趣味性。 《英文观止》的问世，无疑是我国外语教学的一件喜事，对英语文学研究是一种突破，而对高校中英语专业的师生和英语文学的爱好者说也是一种福音。 《英文观止》内容上启公元8世纪，下至20世纪70年代，囊括中古世纪、文艺复兴、启蒙运动、浪漫主义、现实主义及现代派之经典著作；翻译出自朱生豪、方平、李赋宁、王佐良等多位前辈之手，最具权威；注释解说详尽，选材全面，是国内首次系统介绍英语文学名著的开山之作。

本书是美国著名学者、文学批评家艾布拉姆斯主持编写的经典文学术语工具书，自1957年首次出版以来畅销不衰，本版本是经过全新修订的第9版。本书收录各种文学术语1000余条，不仅囊括了现当文学批评理论的主要术语，而且包括了数千年来西方文学史上出现的重要名词和术语，其中自9200余主要词条以文章形式出现，追本溯源，解析详尽，相关书目权威丰富，是广大西方文学爱好者和研究者的必备工具书。

《英译中国现代散文选2》为《英译中国现代散文选》第二集，共选译了四十五篇现代散文，各篇均为汉英对照，并附详细注释及对原作者的简介，对翻译过程中可能遇到的问题，如语言难点、翻译方法、历史背景等，均作了一些必要的分析讲解。为研究文学作品汉译英的理论、技巧提供一些可供参考的实例。

"Stein on Writing" provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place." With examples from bestsellers as well as from students' drafts, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, trimming away flabby wording, the so-called "triage" method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and more.

收录条目200余，不仅囊括了当代重要的文学名词和术语，而且包括了数千年来西方文学史上出现的重要名词和术语，涵盖了文学、文学史、文学批评等多个方面，是一部名副其实的文学术语词典。

《英文观止》一书规模宏大，全书分为上、下册，1400多页，160万字；上启公元8世纪的英国文学史诗《贝奥武甫》下至20世纪70年代的美国华裔文学，其中中古英语作品在国内第一次以原文风貌展现给读书。这是继著名学者王佐良、李赋宁等人编写的《英国文学名篇选注》之后23年第一部最重要的文学详注读本。

《文学批评方法手册》(第4版)是一本文学批评方法的普及读本，既有批评方法的阐述，又有实践应用的例证。第一版于20世纪60年代中期出版，此后我次修订再版，并被译成西班牙文、葡萄牙文、日文、朝鲜文等多种文字。

本书精心选编了乔治·奥威尔的十八篇散文，为读者感悟其自由而人性化的文学价值定位、了解其在那个时代所持有的政治观点，提供了一种视野。亲历两次世界大战的艰辛洗礼，目睹欧洲政治局势的风云变幻；外部世界的苦与痛，英国绅士的安逸漠然，怎不让作家感慨万千。

本书遴选现当代英汉散文佳作共108篇，文章题材多样。所有篇目均采用双语对照，译笔地道传神，是翻译爱好者的首选读本，恰到好处的翻译疑难点拨更让英语学习者受获非浅。书自出版以来畅销多年，是众多名校翻译课程的必读书目，被列为英语专业研究生考试翻译试题题库。

《英国散文的流变(珍藏本)》的研究对象是所有不属于韵文的作品，从16世纪莫尔的史书开始，以20世纪下半叶的口述历史作结，对各代各型的英文散文进行了梳理。他总结道，英国散文中有一条平易散文传统，平易但不平淡，言之有物，又有文采。《英国散文的流变(珍藏本)》所择取的各个时期的作品反映了社会的发展，文明的变迁；对作品语言微观结构的观照，让读者细查语言之美，阅之爱不忍释。王佐良先生引文都附译文，多数系自译，其语言修养和文化修养尽体现其中。 《英国散文的流变》是我国英语语言文学专业师生、翻译专业师生以及广大文学爱好者教学与学习的必备参考书。该书谈散文，谈文学，于语言之外通过具体作品又勾勒出了英国乃至整个西方文化发展的传统，从这个意义上说，读这本书，不仅欣赏文字之美，更能感悟思想之美。

Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or 'dirty realism,' a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Carver's stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. In books such as Cathedral and the later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I'm Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. In gathering all of Carver's stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of America's Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carver's career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos of the late stories. But it also prompts a fresh consideration of Carver by presenting Beginners, an edition of the manuscript of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that Carver submitted to Gordon Lish, his editor and a crucial influence on his development. Lish's editing was so extensive that at one point Carver wrote him an anguished letter asking him not to publish the book; now, for the first time, readers can read both the manuscript and published versions of the collection that established Carver as a major American writer. Offering a fascinating window into the complex, fraught relation between writer and editor, Beginners expands our sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about his achievement.

《苏菲的世界》一书以小说的形式，通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过，揭示了西方哲学发展的历程。由前苏格拉底时代到萨特，以及亚里士多德、笛卡儿、黑格尔等人的思想都通过作者生动的笔触跃然纸上，并配以当时的历史背景加以解释，引人入胜。评论家认为，对于那些从未读过哲学课程的人而言，此书是最为合适的入门书，而对于那些以往读过一些哲学而已忘得一干二净的人士，也可起到温故知新的作用。 14岁的少女苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼前展开。在一位神秘导师的指引下，苏菲开始思索，她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识，企图解开这些谜团。然而，事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、更离奇…… 《苏菲的世界》，是智慧的世界，梦的世界。它将会唤醒每个人内心深处对生命的赞叹与对人生终极意义的关怀与好奇。 Book Description A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: “Who are you?” and “Where does the world come from?” From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined. Amazon.com Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. From Publishers Weekly This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children's book-but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox's lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie's life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. As Alberto Knox's lessons approach this century, he and Sophie come to suspect that they are merely characters in a novel written by Albert for his daughter. Teacher and pupil hatch a plot to understand and possibly escape from their situation; and from there, matters get only weirder. Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder's notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it's occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren't well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour. From School Library Journal YA?From the opening Goethe quotation to the closing discussion of the big bang theory, this is an extraordinary, exciting, provocative book that has been a bestseller in Europe. Gaarder presents a didactic history of philosophical thought as part of a fictional mystery story that both pulls readers along and breaks up the "heavy" explanations into manageable parts. Yet the plot is itself a philosophical conundrum, not resolved until the aftermath of a hilarious, disturbing garden party in celebration of both Midsummer's Eve and the 15th birthday of the protagonist, a suburban Norwegian teenager. And even then, the mystery, like the human mystery, is not really resolved, and leaves readers wanting to know more. Gaarder pulls off the difficult feat of blending philosophy and entertainment in a way that will capture YAs' interest and make them eager to explore further. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA From Library Journal This novel has already been a best seller in Scandinavia and Germany, and though it is markedly different from the prototypical American best seller, it should also do well here. The framework of the story is the receipt by a 14-year-old girl of mysterious letters that present her with a history of Western philosophy, from the pre-Socratics through Jean-Paul Sartre. After reading them, Sophie is prompted to ask questions and to think analytically. She also tries to discover their source and other manifestations, such as the puzzling postcards a Norwegian UN soldier in Lebanon sends to his nearly 15-year-old daughter. Adults and mature teens will appreciate the mystery as well as the philosophy lessons found in this first novel by a Norwegian high school philosophy teacher. Recommended for most collections. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md. From AudioFile Have you always wanted an overview of philosophy but never had the time to pursue it? SOPHIE'S WORLD is the answer. It contains an abbreviated survey of Western philosophy. Kitt Weagant reads 15-year-old Sophie's part in wonder-filled tones, sparkling with inquisitiveness. Jacob Needleman reads Alberto Knox, the philosophy teacher, who presents the philosophy in bit-sized pieces. His voice is slow and steady, phrasing the sentences for easy comprehension. The second tape contains music, which separates the story from the discourse and is often distracting. Nonetheless, SOPHIE'S WORLD will aid the listener in discovering the secrets of philosophical thought. M.B.K. From Kirkus Reviews What if we were all just characters from a book written by Major Albert Knag as a philosophical present for his daughter Hilde's 15th birthday? This is the question that Sophie Amundsen must ask as she tackles the history of philosophy in what begins as a personalized correspondence course for which she never signed up. Coming home from school one day, Sophie finds questions in her mailbox, followed by typewritten pages about philosophy. She also gets strange birthday cards apparently intended for a Hilde Mller Knag in Lillesand, whom she has never met. Through these unusual circumstances, Sophie embarks on the study of philosophy with Alberto Knox--a middle-aged mystery man in a beret--only to discover that she is nothing more than the fictional heroine of a novel (called Sophie's World) about the history of philosophy. Hilde, on the other hand, whom we meet halfway through the book, appears to be a real girl whose father has written a novel entitled Sophie's World. She in turn learns about philosophy by reading about Sophie's study of philosophy, never suspecting that she is merely a character in a book--Sophie's World--written by a philosophy teacher named Jostein Gaarder to teach teenagers the beauty of philosophical discourse. In this long, self- referential novel (to use the word loosely), Gaarder presents philosophy in a clear, cogent way, using Sophie's and Hilde's experiences to illustrate his points. The reader who is expecting something other than a creative textbook, however, will be disappointed. Maybe Gaarder can fool Norwegian youths into learning philosophy, but savvy American kids won't be so easily hoodwinked. Index. (Philosophy/Fiction. All ages) Midwest Book Review Sophie, a Norwegian schoolgirl, is anticipating her fifteenth birthday when a card arrives in the mail asking the question: Who are you? With her unorthodox and mysterious mentor Alberto Knox, Sophie ponders the great questions of Western philosophy (ranging from the pre-Socratic Greeks to Jean-Paul Sartre) in this fascinating, humorous work. Ideal listening for teens and adults of all ages. Book Dimension length: (cm)20.9 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.9 点击链接进入中文版： 苏菲的世界