1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

With acclaimed works like "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty," Irish author Sebastian Barry has earned a reputation as a amaster storytellera ("The Wall Street Journal"). In "A Long Long Way" he has created an unforgettable portrait of the horrors of war through the story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front. C...(展开全部)

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspi...(展开全部)

A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspi...(展开全部)