托托特是一位厨艺精湛的战地厨子,他辗转于各方军队,总能凭借准确的直觉,跟着获胜的一方。他的战场生存智慧,源于他有一颗像深海大鱼那样冷漠而奸猾的心。对托托特来说,是战争养活了他,只要有战争,将士们就要填饱肚皮,因此,他巴不得仗会一直打下去,战争就是他的整个世界。直到有一天,一个失去双腿、名叫乔治的小男孩出现在他的厨房里,打破了他平静的生活,也改变了一切……当战争终于结束,托托特回到了几乎已经被他遗忘的家乡,发现自己失去了熟悉的战场世界,却找回了那颗温暖的心。
一部动物成长小说,讲述了远古洪荒时代的一只小狼成长为狼群领袖的历程。在众多狂野生灵之中,远古时期的狼族强大而繁盛,它们是这片土地上具优势的动物,是整个大草原的统治者,是位居食物链傲视草原的种族。 n小说中没有人的踪影,却是写给少年的成长礼物。
虫爸跟虫虫谈论的是一个有趣的话题: 钱钱。 比如:为什么不能够把所有的玩具都买走? 钱从哪里来? 工作是什么? 假如你有一笔钱会用来做什么? 钱有干净和肮脏的分别吗? 赚足够的钱好还是赚喜欢的钱好? 虫虫的问题, 也是所有孩子的问题。 虫爸的回答, 或许比你想象得更精彩绝伦。
从詹姆斯?伍德出版本批评文集《破格》(1999)以后,他已被广泛地认为是英语文学批评界的领军者。他既评判那些殿堂级经典作家(福楼拜,陀思妥耶夫斯基的),臧否晚近的重要作家(赫拉巴尔,塞巴尔德),同时也评点重要的当代作家(埃莱娜?费兰特,海伦?加纳)。他建立起了一套富有智识,又犀利精准的批评标准,并将这套标准用自成一格的文章呈现出来。 《真看》精选了伍德二十年来的批评散文,编排巧妙,相邻的两篇往往能够相互映照,折射出伍德在尖锐之余的宽厚。此外,本书亦增补了他在《纽约客》上发表的一系列对近年来极受文学界瞩目的当代作家的评论文章,将伍德评论的版图拓展至柏林、意大利、巴尔干半岛、澳洲……全面展示了伍德评论的深度与广度。
《格林童话集:彩图版》由德语翻译界泰斗——巴蜀译翁杨武能教授精选、翻译、亲笔作序,由来自中国八大美院的精英画师绘制内文彩图。 《格林童话》产生于十九世纪初,是由德国语言学家雅可卜 格林和威廉 格林搜集整理而成的德国民间文学。它是世界童话的经典之作,自问世以来,在世界各地影响十分广泛。格林兄弟以其丰富的想象、优美的语言给孩子们讲述了一个个神奇而又浪漫的童话故事。 本书从二百多篇中故事中遴选精华篇目,契合儿童发展心理学,收录《小红帽》《灰姑娘》《白雪公主》《青蛙王子》等广受世界各国儿童喜爱的名篇,也收录了一些同样趣味盎然、富有教育意义的杰作。 是目前市面上译本上佳、插图精美的《格林童话》版本之一。格林童话等世界经典童话在绘本类童书销售中一直炙手可热,《格林童话集:彩图版》篇目之经典,语
BOY,Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography,is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days.With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.This is not an autobiography' - Roald Dahl.This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards,a number of things happened to Roald Dahl,which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them.Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny,some frightening,all true. Roald Dahl,the best-loved of children's writers,was born in Wales of Norwegian parents.His books continue to be bestsellers,despite his death in 1990,and worldwide sales are over 100 million! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to
《独闯天下》是达尔自传《好小子-童年故事》的续集。前面说到达尔完成了中学学习,他希望从事一个职业能带他到"象非洲和中国一样美妙的遥远地方。"他赢得了壳牌石油公司的好职位。1938年秋天,达尔被调到非洲工作,在那里他和壳牌石油公司的另两名代表一起管理整个东非领域,同时也开始有了更多奇妙惊险的经历,比如眼镜蛇进入他朋友的房子而不得不叫捕蛇者来捕蛇,或者一只狮子抓住了一个本地妇女,而达尔关于其营救过程的纪录被登在一家非洲报纸上,这成为他篇公开发表的作品。 This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable lifestory, following on from "Boy", that tells of his time working inAfrica and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new coverwith illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about RoaldDahl and his world.
Even grownups enjoy a bedtime story every now and then,especially one that combines, as does this one, the sophisticationof a novel with the whimsy of a fairy tale. Gaarder, the Norwegianformer professor of philosophy who brought us The Solitaire Mystery(1996) and the bestselling Sophie's World (1995), is up to hisusual tricks here, serving up a metaphysical brainteaser thatunfolds into a warm?but not preachy?meditation on God and theChristian doctrines. Set in an unnamed town in present-day Norway,it tells the story of Joachim, a young boy who finds a faded,handmade Advent calendar in a bookstore on the eve of Decemberfirst, and begs his father to let him take it home. The nextmorning, when he opens the calendar's first door, Joachim discoversnot just the expected picture but also a tightly folded piece ofpaper, the first installment of the fantastic tale of a littlegirl's journey through time and space to be present at theNativity. Soon the girl's story is making unexpected intrusionsinto Joachim's o
This is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's early years atschool and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl's childhoodtales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blakecover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.
Roald DahlAs personal stories together in one edition Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course Boy includes tales of sweetshops and chocolate, mean old ladies, and the Great Mouse Plot. And then "Going Solo" tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa and later went flying with the Royal Air Force.
《罗森克兰茨与吉尔德斯特恩已死》是斯托帕版的《等待戈多》。
When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor whointroduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Whydoes she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who isthe other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? Tosolve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but thetruth is far stranger than she could have imagined. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to drawteenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel andall the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinatingstory with many twists and turns, it raises profound questionsabout the meaning of life and the origin of theuniverse.
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt during his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle. But it took him twenty years to go public, for fear of the backlash his theory would cause. Once again, Kathleen Krull delivers a witty and astute picture of one of history's greatest scientists.