Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos. The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimil...(展开全部)

Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos. The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimil...(展开全部)

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, ...(展开全部)

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectu...(展开全部)

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, ...(展开全部)

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 诺贝尔文学奖得主、英国前首相丘吉尔全景式历史巨著 入选美国“当代文库100”20世纪百大英文非小说 “一项文学奖本来意在把荣誉给予作者，而这一次却相反，是作者给了这项文学奖以荣誉。” ——瑞典文学院院士在为丘吉尔颁发诺贝尔奖时致辞 “在黑暗的年代里，他的言语以及与之相应的行动，唤起了世界各地千百万人们心中的信念和希望……在人类冲突的领域里，以前还从未发生过这样的事：如此众多的人都应该深深地感激一个人。” ——瑞典文学院院士利列斯特兰德 “这确实是一本伟大的书，它撼动了人们的心灵，并为这段影响历史的过程留下了忠实记录。” ——《西部邮讯》 “何其幸运，我们拥有这些珍贵的财产，它将会流传后世，让后人们阅读再三。” ——查尔斯·韦博斯爵士 第二次世界大战回忆录是前英国首相温斯顿·丘吉尔在第二次世界大战刚结...(展开全部)

R.奥斯汀•弗里曼 （R. Austin Freeman, 1862—1943） 英国侦探小说家，以桑代克系列侦探小说闻名于世。生于伦敦，于1887年获得医学学位。1891年开始创作侦探小说，将医学知识大量运用到作品中。1907年推出第一部以桑代克医师为主角的长篇小说《上帝的指纹》，接着便推出一系列短篇集和多部长篇，保持着旺盛的创作力直至逝世。1912年的短篇集《歌唱的白骨》开创了“反叙述性侦探小说”的先河，在推理小说史上占有独特的伟大地位。弗里曼笔下的桑代克医师堪称侦探小说史上科学办案的典范，也是CSI、犯罪实验室的灵感起源。

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sand", which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and th...(展开全部)

Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives....(展开全部)