在线阅读本书 Hello Room Service, this is me Eloise. We're going to Paris. France goodbye! And so, our favourite enfant terrible (sporting her foreign identification travel tag) says au revoir to the Plaza and embarks with Nanny and Weenie on a Parisian adventure, which is rawther extraordinaire. While whizzing through the streets, sights, and shops of Paris, Eloise comes to a few im...(展开全部)

Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artis...(展开全部)

From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy’s antifascist resistance and ...(展开全部)

Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. It has a rigid and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How? Kawamura shows how French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of "outsid...(展开全部)

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater jour...(展开全部)

侯活士 侯活士（Hauerwas，1940－）是当代基督教伦理学中，最具活力和睿见的伦理神学家。现任杜克神学院任吉尔伯特神学伦理学讲座讲授，并任杜克大学法学院教授。他早年于耶鲁大学取得博士学位，2001年主讲过著名的吉福德讲座，并被爱丁堡大学授予荣誉神学博士学位。 他的写作涉猎非常广泛，思想汲取了不少托马斯‧阿奎那，克尔凯郭尔，卡尔‧巴特，维特根斯坦，约翰‧犹达，以及麦金泰尔的创见。并曾受教于耶鲁学派，依循耶鲁学派的脚踪，大力倡导圣经叙事乃是基督徒认信的语法的观点，并在其著作中强调教会群体对基督徒生命的重要性，虽然被人批评为宗派主义，但也于2001年被《时代》杂志称誉为“美国最好的神学家”。 他的《和平的国度》一书，是第一流的伦理学专著，清楚展示出伦理思想和实践当有的样貌，同时勾画出基督徒生命的本质。他使用“叙事”这概念连结伦理学的众多主题，为基督徒...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the pe...(展开全部)

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed a...(展开全部)