Love is the life-giving spirit, the axle on which the world turns, the infinite tenderness of God for His creation. It is also the love between women and men. Desires ethereal, ardent, even animalistic, "The Book of Good Love" honours them all. This study edition contains commentary on the text.

Review Perhaps no single work typifies the medieval character so completely as Juan Ruiz' Libro de Buen Amor, a product of the fourteenth century which, like medieval man, is a curious combination of the sublimely sacred and the unabashedly profane, of prayers and pornography. Mr. Kane's translation, running to six thousand lines of verse, is a minor masterpiece of scholarly fl...(展开全部)

Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles. Debbie Tung’s comics are humorous and instantly recognizable—making readers laugh while precisely conveying the thoughts and habits of book nerds. Book Love is the ideal gift to let a book lover know they’re understood and appreciated.

Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles. Debbie Tung’s comics are humorous and instantly recognizable—making readers laugh while precisely conveying the thoughts and habits of book nerds. Book Love is the ideal gift to let a book lover know they’re understood and appreciated.

In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems - as in her title story, it can be needy and murderous.

京•麦克莱尔 加拿大备受好评的获奖作家。她之前为孩子们创作过绘本:《小孩茱莉亚》《弗尔兹先生》《小勺子》和《我的妹妹是只狼》。她曾获得加拿大最负盛名的儿童图书奖——总督文学奖。她为成年人写的第一部小说《开信者》，赢得了K.M. 猎人艺术家奖，并入围亚马逊网站的加拿大第一部小说奖。她的散文和艺术批评已在北美、欧洲、亚洲和澳大利亚广泛出版和选编。 玛丽昂•阿伯纳 她出生于法国。在获得巴黎艺术学院动画电影证书之后，她定居于加拿大蒙特利尔。多亏一双漂亮的冬季靴，她忍受住了加拿大寒冷的天气，并致力于艺术创作。她已经创作了30多本儿童读物，包括最近的《山姆的宠物脾气》。她的作品在几项国际比赛中获得了荣誉。 她和歌手兼作曲家大卫•沃尔以及他们的两个孩子一起住在多伦多。

In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summe...(展开全部)

Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." --NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books." 1944 Caldecott Honor Book

玛格丽特•怀兹•布朗（Margaret Wise Brown ，1910-1952）/著 美国图画书界先驱性人物，“黄金时代”代表人物之一，天才图画书作家，四次凯迪克奖获得者。在童书领域，要论与童年情感的完美共鸣，罕有作者能与玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗相匹敌。玛格丽特1932年毕业于维吉尼亚州霍林斯学院，后加入当时在美国推行先进教育改革实验的银行街教育学院，在这一时期，她将自己的文学志向与儿童发展和幼儿教育的研究结合了起来。玛格丽特拥有一种独特的能力，能透过儿童的眼睛看世界，她为图画书创作提供了全新的且经久不衰的维度。玛格丽特创作的许多深受欢迎的作品，如《晚安，月亮》《逃家小兔》《小岛》《重要书》《我的世界》《孩子的晚安书》等等，在经过许多年后，仍然让无数的小读者感到欢愉。 让•夏洛（Jean Charlot ，1898-1979）/绘 著名的壁画家、版画...(展开全部)

Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." —NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books." 1944 Caldecott Honor Book