Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)

A raven who has learned to speak from watching movies befriends a young girl whose eyes were ruined in a freak accident. He brings her eyeballs he steals from other people, and when she puts them in her eye sockets, she sees memories from their original owners. Desperate to make the girl happy, the raven brings her more and more eyeballs. This is also the story of a young girl,...(展开全部)

A raven who has learned to speak from watching movies befriends a young girl whose eyes were ruined in a freak accident. He brings her eyeballs he steals from other people, and when she puts them in her eye sockets, she sees memories from their original owners. Desperate to make the girl happy, the raven brings her more and more eyeballs. This is also the story of a young girl,...(展开全部)

These 55 masterworks by one of the most influential -- and most prolific -- illustrators of children's books during the early 20th century include exquisite images for "The Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "The Snow Queen," "The Real Princess," and other beguiling tales. An invaluable treasury for lovers of fine art; a delight for fairy-tale enthusiasts.

Danish-American artist Kay Nielsen is famed for his versions of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen as well as the Nordic fables recounted in "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon." This enchanting compilation draws upon Nielsen's images from these and other beloved books. 59 illustrations.

Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fears...(展开全部)

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell），本名埃里克·亚瑟·布莱尔（Eric Arthur Blair）。1903年生于印度，当时，他的父亲在当地的殖民地政府供职，用他自己的话说，他家属于“中产阶级的下层，或没有钱财的中产家庭”。 1904年，由母亲带他先回到了英国。他自幼天资聪颖，11岁时就在报纸上发表了一篇诗作《醒来吧，英格兰的小伙子们》。14岁又考入著名的伊顿（Eton）公学，并获取了奖学金。但早在小学时期，他就饱尝了被富家子弟歧视的苦涩，从他后来的回顾中可以看出，凭他那天生就很敏感的心灵，这时已经对不平等有了初步的体验。 1921年，布莱尔从伊顿毕业后考取了公职，到缅甸当了一名帝国警察，在那里，被奴役的殖民地人民的悲惨生活无时不在刺激着他的良知。看着他们在饥寒交迫中、在任人宰割的被奴役中挣扎，他深深感到“帝国主义是一种暴虐”。身为一名帝国警...(展开全部)