The Bird King is a collection of various sketches: random jottings, preliminary designs for book, film and theatre projects, sketchbook pages and drawings from life. Each of these represent some aspect of a working process, whereby stories generally evolve from visual research and free-wheeling doodles. They are also 'unfinished' pieces created in a single sitting, not original...(展开全部)

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919), also known as T. R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He became the youngest President in United States history at the age of 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, hi...(展开全部)

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919), also known as T. R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He became the youngest President in United States history at the age of 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, hi...(展开全部)

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919), also known as T. R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He became the youngest President in United States history at the age of 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, hi...(展开全部)

This is Somerset Maugham's fifth mature short story collection and, as he states in the preface to The Collected Edition in 1936, the last one which contains stories popularly known as "exotic". Originally published in 1933 by Heinemann, "Ah King" is another achievement of Maugham in the genre of the short story that leaves me breathless while reading it. All six stories it con...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 赫尔曼·麦尔维尔（Herman Melville，1819—1891），19世纪美国杰出小说家，代表作《白鲸》被毛姆列入“世界文学十大最佳小说”。早年在捕鲸船上当过水手，这深刻影响了他日后的写作。生前并未引起应有的重视，过世后三十年声名鹊起。被誉为美国的“莎士 比亚”。 ◎译者简介 陆源，青年作家，1980年生于广西。毕业于中国人民大学，经济学硕士。著有长篇小说《祖先的爱情》《范湖湖的奇幻夏天》，短篇小说集《保龄球的意识流》等。译作有小说集《沙漏做招牌的疗养院》《肉桂色铺子及其他故事》等。

◎著者简介 赫尔曼·麦尔维尔（Herman Melville，1819—1891），19世纪美国杰出小说家，代表作《白鲸》被毛姆列入“世界文学十大最佳小说”。早年在捕鲸船上当过水手，这深刻影响了他日后的写作。生前并未引起应有的重视，过世后三十年声名鹊起。被誉为美国的“莎士 比亚”。 ◎译者简介 陆源，青年作家，1980年生于广西。毕业于中国人民大学，经济学硕士。著有长篇小说《祖先的爱情》《范湖湖的奇幻夏天》，短篇小说集《保龄球的意识流》等。译作有小说集《沙漏做招牌的疗养院》《肉桂色铺子及其他故事》等。

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