2017诺贝尔文学奖得主 石黑一雄作品 火热预售中,预计11月中旬到货,先订先发 The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics 石黑一雄:长日留痕 Kazuo Ishiguro (作者) 基本信息 出版社: Faber Faber; Main - Faber Modern Classics (2015年4月2日) 平装: 272页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 0571322735 条形码: 9780571322732 商品尺寸: 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 304 g ASIN: 0571322735 内容简介 The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Stevens, the lon
The publication of Darwin s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology. Darwin s reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and his assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own poor health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin s monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its profound ideas remain controversial even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written an important work not
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