Despite impoverishing his family because of his alcoholism, McCourt's father passed on to his son a gift for superb storytelling. He told him about the great Irish heroes, the old days in Ireland, the people in their Limerick neighborhood, and the world beyond their shores. McCourt writes in the voice of the child?with no self-pity or review of events?and just retells the tales...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depressi...(展开全部)

The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape, a recognizable presence in galleries across Europe and North America. Nonetheless, the artist himself remains an enigma. Rembrandt was a not...(展开全部)

"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design ph...(展开全部)

Marguerite Duras about her films, filming, film aesthetics, cinema and spectators, about Godard, Chaplin, Woody Allen and Tati, Renoir, Bresson and Cocteau, on May 1968, about books in general and about her own books.

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

Tall, soft-spoken Natsume used to work with troubled kids at a reformatory but resigned mid-career to become a police detective. Those who’ve known him wonder why the gentlest of men, whose vocation had been to have faith in humans, now doubts them professionally. The truths of his path unfold over seven carefully crafted chapters, each of which stands on its own as a short sto...(展开全部)

Don’t Trust This Book Don’t Trust These People Don’t Trust Yourself And whatever you do, DON’T give away that ending… Behind Her Eyes has been called the new Girl on the Train and Gone Girl . This is one psychological thriller you will not want to miss. Louise Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all t...(展开全部)

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。