A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with ...(展开全部)

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《Black Beauty - 黑美人 (英文原版)》是一部扣人心弦的动物小说，它以一匹骏马“黑美人”的口吻，深情讲述了自己从贵族庄园到残酷城市的坎坷一生。书中细腻描绘了黑美人与人类之间深厚的情感纽带，以及它在不同主人手下的命运起伏，深刻揭示了19世纪英国社会的阶级差异与动物福利问题。这部经典之作以其感人至深的故事和引人深思的主题，吸引了无数读者沉浸其中，感受生命的坚韧与温情。

《Black Beauty - 黑美人 (英文原版)》是一部扣人心弦的动物小说，它以一匹骏马“黑美人”的口吻，深情讲述了自己从贵族庄园到残酷城市的坎坷一生。书中细腻描绘了黑美人与人类之间深厚的情感纽带，以及它在不同主人手下的命运起伏，深刻揭示了19世纪英国社会的阶级差异与动物福利问题。这部经典之作以其感人至深的故事和引人深思的主题，吸引了无数读者沉浸其中，感受生命的坚韧与温情。

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)

Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann.--Richard Feynman Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark a...(展开全部)

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton,wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoan...(展开全部)

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach.

In Sleeping Beauty , Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguishe...(展开全部)