Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

简介：Death is the only beacon that is always on, and no matter where you sail, you will eventually have to turn to it. Everything will pass away, and only death will live forever.（死亡是唯一永远亮着的灯塔，无论你航行到哪里，你最终都要转向它，一切都会过去，只有死亡才会永远活着。）（已完结）

简介：这个餐厅有求必应，而店主却是每隔一年换一个，这个餐厅的阴谋却不止一个

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Should we accept an account according to which peop...(展开全部)

简介：这个餐厅有求必应，而店主却是每隔一年换一个，这个餐厅的阴谋却不止一个

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

"Boarding House" shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical symbols of events that have occurred ...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

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