28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of world you will be born into. And I know nothing about you... I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your ...(展开全部)

2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But s...(展开全部)

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branc...(展开全部)

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...(展开全部)

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branc...(展开全部)

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...(展开全部)

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋 章在内的多个奖项。 译者颜元叔（1933-2012），中国台湾大学外文系教授、文艺评论家、英文教育家；湖南省茶陵县人，1933年生于南京，1956年毕业于台湾大学外文系，1958年赴美国留学，曾在威斯康辛大学研究英美文学，获博士学位；1963年回国后在母校执教，任外文系教授、系主任；是美国水牛城纽约州立大学客座教授、美国犹他大学交换教授；创办《中外文学》《淡江评论》等，并任《中外文学》社长兼总编辑；擅用幽默嘲讽的笔法，描述市井百态，剖析社会现实问题。著有《文学的玄想》《人间烟火》等，...(展开全部)

One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renown...(展开全部)

惡龍降世，惟有尋得屠龍槍， 方能解救世界、回歸和平。 在充斥魔法與邪惡的克萊恩世界中， 一群平凡的冒險者， 將合力寫下令人嘆為觀止的傳奇。 多年相識的好友，互道珍重追尋自己的人生。 如今，他們又再度重逢，但心裡卻各自藏著祕密。 他們互相談論起大戰一觸即發的謠言， 聊著陌生怪物、神祕生物與傳說中的神物， 卻絕口不提他們彼此內心的祕密。 因為，時候未到。 直到某次偶然的機緣，一位既美麗又悲傷的女子， 帶著一柄魔法水晶杖，將眾人引入重重暗影中， 永遠改變他們的生命，以及這世界的命運。 沒有人料到他們會變成英雄。