A Tale of Dickens 狄更斯记 Charles Dickens, second of eight children, was born in Portsea, England, in 1812 during the new industrial age. Dickenss father was at the time a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financi...
Mark Twain in Hannibal 马克吐温在汉尼堡 The relationship between Hannibal and Twain began in November 1839, when Twains father, John Clemens, decided to leave the hamlet of Florida, Missouri, and move east about 35 miles to the somewhat large...
The Great Fitzgerald 了不起的菲茨杰拉德 Fitzgeralds path as a writer was clear by the time he was 13-that was his age when his first story was published in the St. Paul Academy newspaper. Despite, or perhaps because of, his passion for writi...
Pearl S.Buck:The Cross-Cultural Envoy 赛珍珠:中西文化使者 Pearl was bom in Virginia, the United States in 1892 and her parents were Christian missionaries. When Buck was three months old, her parents took her with them on a mission to Chin...
Autobiography of Hemingway 海明威传 Ernest Hemingway is a giant of modern literature. Among twentieth-century American fiction writers, his work is most often compared to that of his contemporaries William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Combin...
Business Angel Engels 商贾天使恩格斯 When the financial crisis took off last autumn, Karl Marxs Das Kapital,originally published in 1867, whooshed up bestseller lists. The first book to describe the relentless, all-consuming and global natur...
Magic Mother: J. K. Rowling 魔法妈妈:J.K.罗琳 Joanne Kathleen Rowling entered the world in Chipping Sudbury General Hospital in England, a fitting beginning for someone who would later enjoy making up strange names for people, places and game...
The Firm Helen Keller 坚强的海伦?凯勒 In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very diffi...
Colin Powell 科林?鲍威尔 Colin Powell has a hard time letting go of work, even when hes forced to play and sing. 鲍威尔平日一向是个工作狂,即便是放松一下 的时候,比如唱歌,也是出于工作的需要。 Since taking...
George Walker Bush 乔治布什 In his fathers presidential race in 1988, Bush Jr. became his fathers aid. This was the first time the two had worked together closely as adults, and Big George came to appreciate his sons political instincts. When Geo...