Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire in the southwest of England. After studying literature and drama at the University of Roehampton in London, she settled in Galway. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, The Moth, Colony, The Irish Times, The White Review and gorse. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Stor...(展开全部)

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feel...(展开全部)

The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr, whose theories of uncertainty threatened the order Einstein believed was essent...(展开全部)

A wonderful fantasy set in a medieval never-never land, reprinted here as a facsimile of the beautiful Kelmscott Press edition. Morris was source behind Dunsany, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc.

威廉·莫里斯（1834-1896） 英国设计师、诗人、小说家、早期社会主义活动家，19世纪下半叶英国工艺美术运动中的杰出人物，也被公认为奇幻小说、乌托邦文学、科幻小说发展的推动者。他设计的纺织品、壁纸、家具及其背后的美学理念至今仍深刻地影响着世界的创意产业，同时这位伟大的设计师在文学上也颇有建树，他写出了数部现代奇幻文学的奠基之作，如《世界尽头的水井》《世界之外的森林》等。 作为欧洲中世纪历史文学的爱好者，莫里斯的小说带着强烈的欧洲中世纪风格——纯粹架空的世界。在莫里斯的奇幻故事中，“我们不再去异国他乡冒险，穿梭在奇怪的梦中，渴望跑到未来”。C.S.刘易斯曾说莫里斯是他最喜欢的作者之一，而托尔金也承认莫里斯的奇幻小说给自己带来了很大的影响。

威廉·莫里斯（1834-1896） 英国设计师、诗人、小说家、早期社会主义活动家，19世纪下半叶英国工艺美术运动中的杰出人物，也被公认为奇幻小说、乌托邦文学、科幻小说发展的推动者。他设计的纺织品、壁纸、家具及其背后的美学理念至今仍深刻地影响着世界的创意产业，同时这位伟大的设计师在文学上也颇有建树，他写出了数部现代奇幻文学的奠基之作，如《世界尽头的水井》《世界之外的森林》等。 作为欧洲中世纪历史文学的爱好者，莫里斯的小说带着强烈的欧洲中世纪风格——纯粹架空的世界。在莫里斯的奇幻故事中，“我们不再去异国他乡冒险，穿梭在奇怪的梦中，渴望跑到未来”。C.S.刘易斯曾说莫里斯是他最喜欢的作者之一，而托尔金也承认莫里斯的奇幻小说给自己带来了很大的影响。