Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)

Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, a warning to the complacent, British middle-class of the upheavals taking place on the Continent.

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

It's the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but Madeline finds help from a magical merchant peddling flying carpets door-to-door. Now the girls are going on a Christmas journey that will surely make them forget their sniffles a...(展开全部)

It's the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but Madeline finds help from a magical merchant peddling flying carpet door-to-door. Now the girls are going on a Christmas journey that will surely make them forget all about their sn...(展开全部)

雷蒙德·布里格斯，1934年出生于英国伦敦南郊的一个工人家庭，15岁进入温布尔顿艺术学校，接受正规的艺术教育。作品丰富，曾两次获得凯特·格林威大奖，并获得过荷兰银画笔奖、英国弗朗西斯·威廉奖等多项大奖。作品被翻译成多种文字，并被改编成动画片。

"In a sequence of enchanting vignettes, Father Christmas makes careful preparations for his annual sleigh ride. . . . One of the most irresistible yuletide books to appear in many years."--Horn Book. A Kate Greenaway Medal Book.

Already an international literary event, and translated into a dozen languages, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's Metamorphoses directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's reexploration of the fantastic fables we may think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pie...(展开全部)