Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to ...(展开全部)

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to ...(展开全部)

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, "Elizabeth Costello" is, on the surface, the story of a womanas life as mother, sist...(展开全部)

Berenice Abbott is one of the most significant figures in photography and her accomplishments in the field were more wide ranging than any of her contemporaries. Berenice Abbott not only offers a comprehensive retrospective of her complete oeuvre, encompassing all the primary projects she undertook in her 60 year career, but also presents this work in context with her other acc...(展开全部)

Berenice Abbott is one of the most significant figures in photography and her accomplishments in the field were more wide ranging than any of her contemporaries. Berenice Abbott not only offers a comprehensive retrospective of her complete oeuvre, encompassing all the primary projects she undertook in her 60 year career, but also presents this work in context with her other acc...(展开全部)

"The Photofile" series brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers. Each book contains a selection of the photographers' most important and representative images, plus an introduction and a bibliography. American photographer Berenice Abbott first took up the art while working as an assistant to Man Ray, but soon left to set up her own studio, where she p...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ·A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ·A chronology of the author's life and work ·A timeline of significant events that provide...(展开全部)

玛丽·雪莱(Mary Shelley，1797～1851)是英国女作家，英国十九世纪上半期浪漫主义派的著名诗人波西·比希·雪莱(Percy Bysshe Shelley，1792—1822)的第二个妻子。她生于英国伦敦，原名玛丽·戈德温(Mary Godwin)，是英国哲学家、小说家威廉·戈德温(William Godwin，1756一1836)的女儿 她于1814年随同雪莱去欧洲大陆，1816年两人结婚。雪莱夫妇常与英国著名诗人拜伦(Byron)和散文家、诗人利·亨特(Leigh Hunt)交往。《弗兰肯斯坦》一书据说就是按拜伦的建议而写的。此书于1818年完成，是英国文学史上最早的科幻小说之一。这部小说出版后，受到各国评论家的重视。玛丽·雪莱的其他作品有：The Last Man(1826)，Lodore(1835)，Folker(1837)等。...(展开全部)