This "Norton Critical Edition of Kim" is now available for the first time in the European Union. Recognised as Rudyard Kipling's finest work, "Kim" was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the 1901 first English edition, annotated for undergraduate readers. Background material includes selections from Kipling's autobiography, letters, short storie...(展开全部)

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...(展开全部)

艾丽卡•瓦格纳 · 作家、文学编辑，生于纽约。 主要作品包括纪实作品《亚列尔的礼物：特德•休斯、西尔维娅•普拉斯与<生日书简>的故事》、长篇小说《发作》、短篇小说集《重力》。 曾任《第一道光：艾伦•加纳传》编辑以及伦敦《泰晤士报》文学编辑17年，两次担任英联邦小说奖“曼布克奖”的评委。 现任英国《新政治家》周刊联合作者之一、《时尚芭莎》杂志特约文学编辑。作品见于《卫报》《经济学人》《金融时报》《纽约时报》等。2014年，她荣获艾克尔斯大英图书馆作家奖，如今在伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院教授创意写作。现与丈夫、儿子常住伦敦。

艾丽卡•瓦格纳 · 作家、文学编辑，生于纽约。 主要作品包括纪实作品《亚列尔的礼物：特德•休斯、西尔维娅•普拉斯与<生日书简>的故事》、长篇小说《发作》、短篇小说集《重力》。 曾任《第一道光：艾伦•加纳传》编辑以及伦敦《泰晤士报》文学编辑17年，两次担任英联邦小说奖“曼布克奖”的评委。 现任英国《新政治家》周刊联合作者之一、《时尚芭莎》杂志特约文学编辑。作品见于《卫报》《经济学人》《金融时报》《纽约时报》等。2014年，她荣获艾克尔斯大英图书馆作家奖，如今在伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院教授创意写作。现与丈夫、儿子常住伦敦。

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face had enthralled Elizabethan London. Now Manteo was returne...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 贾尔斯·米尔顿（Giles Milton），英国作家和历史学家，他的作品畅销全球，包括《改变历史的香料商人》《武士威廉》等，现居伦敦。

◎ 著者简介 贾尔斯·米尔顿（Giles Milton），英国作家和历史学家，他的作品畅销全球，包括《改变历史的香料商人》《武士威廉》等，现居伦敦。

Captive American Indian Manteo was returned to his homeland as Governor, a gamble that resulted in the first English settlement in the New World. Using first-hand accounts, this book tells the full story and its extraordinary twist.

此书系英国诺贝尔文学奖得主吉普林的代表作，最早出版于20世纪初。故事是是俄罗斯与英国在中亚地区的政治冲突为背景而展开的。故事集中描写了1881年“第二次阿富汗战争”结束后，1893年“第三次阿富汗战争”前的比较平静的时间里的故事。故事的最吸引读者之处是作者对人物、文化及印度地区不同宗教的入木三分的刻画。也正是因为这一点，使得作者吉普林荣获诺贝尔文学奖。现在，此小说已成为20世纪“最受读者喜爱的百部小说”中的一部。

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)