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
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
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
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
Oliver Cromwell 奥利弗?克伦威尔 Born in Huntingdon in 1599 to a relatively poor squirearchal family, Cromwell found religious zeal as a Puritan while studying at Cambridge. His faith influenced his appearance: he was conservative in his clothi
American Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 美国诗人:朗费罗 On February 27, 1807,Longfellow descended from well-established New England families. His birth place was Portland, Maine. In his home and in the town library, he had access to many
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
Maupassant: The Secret of Writing 莫泊桑:写作的秘籍 He always longed to make literature his career. Many critics have called him the Allan Poe of France. Many cite him as one of the progenitors of the modern short story. Much of his work is
A Sci-Fi Writer: Arthur Clarke 科幻作家:阿瑟克拉克 Born in western England, on December 16th, 1917, the son of a farmer, Arthur Clarke became addicted to science fiction after buying his first copies of the magazine Amazing Stories. He beg
English Poet: John Milton 英国诗人:约翰弥尔顿 John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608,into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Pauls School, then at Christs College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Lat
Shakespeare: Soul of the Age 莎士比亚:时代的灵魂 Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, a little town in the heart of England. He was the eldest son of the family and educated at the local grammar school, b
A Word Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston 文字勇士:汤婷婷 Kingston was born in Stockton, California 1940, she was the 3rd of eight children to a Chinese immigrant parents, and the first to be born in America. Her American name, Maxine, was after a
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 费奥多尔陀思妥耶夫斯基 Dostoyevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow. His childhood was very unhappy. His father, a doctor, was bad-tempered and violent. He believed in very strict discipline for little children. Fyodors mother
The Patriotic Poet: Qu Yuan 爱国诗人:屈原 An outstanding statesman and patriotic poet in the state of Chu during the late Warring States period, Qu Yuan (339BC-278BC) was born in Dan Yang, Hubei Province. Qu Yuan lived through three reigns of
Tan Sitong: A Scholar and Martyr 谭嗣同:为国赴难的学者 Tan Sitong(18651898), native of Hunan province. He was a famous reformist who was well versed with both writing and sword. Tan Sitong loved reading extensively and was especially keen
Sean Connery 肖恩康纳利 My name is Bond James Bond, Sean Connery informed the worlds movie-goers in 1962. In seven Bond films over a span of 21 years, the tall, dark Scot come to embody the suave secret agent whose code name was known around the
Michael Douglas 迈克尔道格拉斯 Michael Douglass mom and dad divorced when Michael was 5 years old. Michael and his brother Joel went to live with their mom in Connecticut. After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall boys school in Connecticut,
Luc Besson 吕克贝松 Out of boredom, Luc Besson started to write stories, including the backdrop to what later became one of his most popular movies, The Fifth Element. Besson directed and cowrote the screenplay of this science fiction thriller wi
Vanessa-Mae 陈美 Vanessa-Mae has been called a Paganini in hot pants. Or, to put it another way: she dresses to kill, but you aint seen anything yet till you see her pick up a violin. 陈美曾被称为穿热裤的帕格尼尼,或者换种说法:
Ha Jin: Across an Ocean of Words 哈金:超越字海 Xuefei Jin, who writes under the pen-name Ha Jin, was born in 1956 in Liaoning province in northern China. At only 14 years of age, Ha Jin joined the Peoples Liberation Army. He began teaching hi
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- Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生 Chapter 4
- Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 莫扎特 Chapter 2 Seeing the World
- Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生 Chapter 2
- Looking Fantastic in the 18th Century…
- Keyboard Insturments in the 18th Century
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