戈镇一个非常地道的美国小镇,闭塞、落后。镇上的人们骄傲自满、自以为是。有一个离经叛道的年轻女子来到这里,想要实行一次彻底的变革,可是不管她怎么努力,后都失败了。后,女子安慰自己:我还是取得了小小的成果的,我一点儿也没有认为我的理想渺小,也不会为自己的失败找理由。大街从来就不是个完美的地方,戈镇也不会比欧洲还要雄伟、状阔。不是所有的女人都甘愿屈服于日常琐事,洗衣、洗碗、做饭,即使我并不会为原则奋斗终生,但是我立志要做个有信仰的人。
《巴比特》是一部反映美国商业文化繁盛时期城市商人生活的小说,不仅塑造了一个典型的商人形象 巴比特 ,还漫画式地表现了美国20世纪20年代商业文化的方方面面。 巴比养着一家人的衣食住行,拥有一套舒适的住宅,还有一辆好车,还有属于自己的事业。当然了,他没有不好的习惯,是个中规中矩的人,的缺点就是有时会吸烟,但他现在正在努力地戒掉。他经常去教堂祷告。为了减肥,他还经常打高尔夫。在他的生活圈里,都是见识广的名人。就是这样,他还是对他的人生不满!
本系列图书从心灵出发,以爱为起点,崇尚内外兼修的美丽与优雅——让女孩变身优雅小淑女,让男生变身帅气小绅士,与他们共同成长、成熟,是我们作者和编辑*的心愿。分为小淑女篇和小绅士篇,分别从“创意生活”“健康”“理念习惯”“礼仪”“服饰”“心理篇”“等领域为读者汲取宝贵的成长“能量”和“营养”。 作者的心愿:每一个孩子都成为特别的自己,拥有非凡的气质和修养。他们的自尊与自信、热情与真诚,会让他们受益终生。作者魏晓曦是一位有着丰富少儿时尚杂志编辑经验的作家,凭借多年的经验和行业内的人脉,全书选用了大量的精美插图和照片,辅以期刊式的自由化排版,一般每两个对开一个专题,每六个专题为一章,创意无限,精彩无限。
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.
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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