A Many-Splendoured Thing tells the story of a married British foreign correspondent called Mark Elliot (Ian Morrison in real life and based in Singapore where he lived with his wife and children) who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from chinese mainland who trained at the Royal Free Hospital Medical College in London University, only to encounter prejudice from ...(展开全部)

韩素音简介 韩素音（1916- ），著名英籍华人女作家，中国人民的忠实朋友。曾先后在燕京大学和比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。 韩素音1916年9月12日出生于河南信阳的一个车站，父亲是从比利时留学归来的中国第一代铁路工程师，母亲是比利时人。韩素音原名周光瑚，"韩素音"是她的笔名，意思是为中国发出的“细小而朴素的声音”。青少年时代的韩素音，理想是当医生，她曾先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学读医科。1937年“七七事变”爆发后，韩素音毅然决定回国："中国是我的骨肉，我的灵魂，我的气息，我的生命！……回到我的祖国去！没有什么爱比这种爱的力量更为强大。" 从医几年后，韩素音成了一个作家。同时，她的一生都在致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。1956年以后，韩素音曾多次访问中国，她曾多次会见和采访毛泽东、周恩来等中国国家领导人，并写下一系列关于中国问题的专访和纪实作...(展开全部)

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexual...(展开全部)

'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the n...(展开全部)

'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the n...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return home, Emma develops a deep interest in travel and sets her sights on an artistic life in San Francisco, while Joan turns to movies and thoughts of romance to escape the pressures of her real life. As the girls ...(展开全部)