Swan Lake is perhaps the best-loved ballet of all time. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winner Lisbeth Zwerger brings her singular vision to a glorious picture-book adaptation of the haunting story of an enchanted swan princess. She has based her version on Tchaikovsky’s original 1877 ballet, which had a happy ending, unlike the later, better-known, 1893 version. Her illustration...(展开全部)

With flash, the lake was based in a shimmering light, and before him stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. "I am the Swan Queen," she said. "I am the swan that you tried to kill." A prince's love for a swan queen breaks an evil spell in this fairy tale adaptation of the beloved ballet written by Tchaikovsky Swan Lake is perhaps the best-loved ballet of all time. Hans...(展开全部)

莉丝贝特·茨韦尔格（Lisbeth Zwerger） 当代最优秀的儿童插画家之一。1954年出生于奥地利，父亲是版画家。自幼喜欢绘画，曾在维也纳应用艺术大学学习。1977年凭《怪孩子》（Das fremde Kind）入选博洛尼亚国际儿童书展插画展，崭露头角，从此成为自由插画家，全心投入经典童书的插画创作。茨韦尔格著作等身，成就斐然，几乎囊括了颁发给插画师的所有奖项：她曾获奥地利儿童文学绘画大奖、奥地利青少年荣誉奖、博洛尼亚国际儿童书展插图奖、美国《新闻周刊》年度图书奖、美国图书馆协会最佳童书奖、蓝丝带奖，两次获得捷克布拉迪斯拉发国际插画双年展大奖金苹果奖，四次获得美国《纽约时报》年度最佳图画书奖，并于36岁时荣获被称为“少儿文学界的诺贝尔奖”的国际安徒生奖，是该奖项迄今为止最年轻的获奖者。现居故乡维也纳，潜心专注于儿童文学插画的创作。

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". Set in the Highgate-Archway area of...(展开全部)

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his cha...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this stunning follow-up to 2007's Christine Falls, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his w...(展开全部)