This "Norton Critical Edition of Kim" is now available for the first time in the European Union. Recognised as Rudyard Kipling's finest work, "Kim" was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the 1901 first English edition, annotated for undergraduate readers. Background material includes selections from Kipling's autobiography, letters, short storie...(展开全部)

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...(展开全部)

威廉•萨默塞特•毛姆(1874-1965)，英国小说家、剧作家、散文家、文艺评论家，20 世纪英国最重要、最知名的作家之一。毛姆一生著作甚丰，无论是小说、剧本、评论、随笔、游记还是回忆录都广受好评，代表作有《人性的枷锁》《月亮与六便士》《寻欢作乐》《刀锋》《面纱》等。他的小说机智、幽默，常在讥讽中潜藏对人性的怜悯与同情。 毛姆晚年享有很高的声誉。英国牛津大学和法国图卢兹大学分别授予他“文学荣誉博士”学位。1954 年，英国女王授予他勋爵爵位。

此书系英国诺贝尔文学奖得主吉普林的代表作，最早出版于20世纪初。故事是是俄罗斯与英国在中亚地区的政治冲突为背景而展开的。故事集中描写了1881年“第二次阿富汗战争”结束后，1893年“第三次阿富汗战争”前的比较平静的时间里的故事。故事的最吸引读者之处是作者对人物、文化及印度地区不同宗教的入木三分的刻画。也正是因为这一点，使得作者吉普林荣获诺贝尔文学奖。现在，此小说已成为20世纪“最受读者喜爱的百部小说”中的一部。

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

This is Somerset Maugham's fifth mature short story collection and, as he states in the preface to The Collected Edition in 1936, the last one which contains stories popularly known as "exotic". Originally published in 1933 by Heinemann, "Ah King" is another achievement of Maugham in the genre of the short story that leaves me breathless while reading it. All six stories it con...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

ps新书 与上一本如有雷同，纯属巧合 舰娘是人类的一切美好幻想的集合体，她们性格各异，美丽而强大。 那天，一位少年意外来到舰娘的世界，并成为了一名舰娘。 这个世界危机四伏 她究竟是历经艰险回到原生世界，还是因此随遇而安呢