在线阅读本书 Since Yao Ming's electrifying NBA debut with the Houston Rockets in 2002, the 7-foot-5 Chinese center has appeared in numerous TV commercials, on magazine covers, and in countless basketball-highlights reels. And yet, despite Yao's status as one of the country's most recognizable sports stars, the remarkable story of how a shy, gangly kid from Shanghai went on to become...(展开全部)

In 2002, Yao Ming became the NBA's first foreign #1 draft pick and a media sensation. Sports writer Ric Bucher was the only American reporter with unrestricted access to Yao's first year in the NBA. Now available in paperback, Yao: A Life in Two Worlds captures Yao's private story and traces his remarkable journey from Chinese success story to international icon. Whether winn...(展开全部)

约卡伊·莫尔(1825—1904)：19世纪匈牙利著名小说家，匈牙利浪漫主义文学杰出代表，他的作品近百年来不仅在匈牙利流传甚广，而且得到世界各国读者的喜爱，被誉为“匈牙利的狄更斯”，译本有两百多种。约卡伊·莫尔的部分作品早年曾以白话文的形式介绍到中国，他的名字曾经被译为“育珂·摩尔”。

There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us. Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is re...(展开全部)

"Between Two Worlds" is an authoritative commentary on - and powerful reinterpretation of - the founding work of modern philosophy, "Descartes' Meditations". Philosophers have tended to read Descartes' seminal work in an occasional way, examining its treatment of individual topics while ignoring other parts of the text. In contrast, John Carriero provides a sustained, systemati...(展开全部)

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life...(展开全部)

本文选自白先勇小说集《纽约客》。八十年代的纽约曼哈顿，一家名为“Tea for Two”的同志酒吧，是许多漂泊灵魂的“欢乐天堂”。华人青年“罗”在这里与中美混血少年安弟相遇，酒吧老板大伟与东尼更是相守半生的爱侣。他们相濡以沫，在异国构建了一个温暖的小世界。 然而，艾滋病的阴影悄然降临。这场突如其来的瘟疫，无情地击碎了他们的乐园。面对死亡与离散，这群边缘人用最后的生命，守护着爱与尊严，谱写了一曲悲壮而深情的时代挽歌。

卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高（Karl Ove Knausgård）1968 年生于挪威奥斯陆。1998 年以首部小说《出离世界》（Ute av verden）获得挪威文学评论奖，2004 年第二部小说《万物皆有时》 （ En tid for alt） 又获得北欧文学奖。2009年至2011年间，克瑙斯高出版了六卷本自传小说《我的奋斗》（Min Kamp），获得挪威最高文学奖项布拉哥文学奖。在挪威，每十个人就有一人读过《我的奋斗》。知名作家莉迪亚·戴维斯、扎迪·史密斯、杰弗里·尤金尼德斯、乔纳森·勒瑟姆等也表示读《我的奋斗》仿佛上瘾，迫不及待地一本接一本读下去。2015 年9 月，克瑙斯高获得德国《世界报》文学奖（Welt-Literaturpreis，2014 年得主是村上春树）；2017 年4 月与6 月，克瑙斯高先后获得欧洲文学奖与耶路撒冷文学奖。另有...(展开全部)

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the 20th century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first ma...(展开全部)