In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

A colourful and charmingly illustrated non-fiction book for very small children, with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and farm animals to spot. Children can peep inside the hen house at sunrise in search of eggs, watch the cows being milked behind the big barn doors and spot the lambs frolicking in the fields. Little hands will love to lift the flaps to see the veg...(展开全部)

Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife. No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of magical trials held once a decade. The chosen pupil is offered a choice: graduate and join Blackwood’s magical elite, or venture into the...(展开全部)

马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物，动物须革命”的理论之后死去，几个月后，农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命，原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走，动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望，尝到了革命果实的甘美，马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”，还制定了七戒。然而不久，两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧，胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸，猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果，成为新的特权阶级，“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”，动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。本电子书为未删减全英文版。

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell），本名埃里克·亚瑟·布莱尔（Eric Arthur Blair）。1903年生于印度，当时，他的父亲在当地的殖民地政府供职，用他自己的话说，他家属于“中产阶级的下层，或没有钱财的中产家庭”。 1904年，由母亲带他先回到了英国。他自幼天资聪颖，11岁时就在报纸上发表了一篇诗作《醒来吧，英格兰的小伙子们》。14岁又考入著名的伊顿（Eton）公学，并获取了奖学金。但早在小学时期，他就饱尝了被富家子弟歧视的苦涩，从他后来的回顾中可以看出，凭他那天生就很敏感的心灵，这时已经对不平等有了初步的体验。 1921年，布莱尔从伊顿毕业后考取了公职，到缅甸当了一名帝国警察，在那里，被奴役的殖民地人民的悲惨生活无时不在刺激着他的良知。看着他们在饥寒交迫中、在任人宰割的被奴役中挣扎，他深深感到“帝国主义是一种暴虐”。身为一名帝国警...(展开全部)

ANIMAL FARM was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the ...(展开全部)