This work takes the form of an old man's diary, where he records his struggle with his self-image, and the manifestations of age, and his growing desire for his beautiful Westernized daughter-in-law. Between them, the two characters embody Japan, past and present.

This work takes the form of an old man's diary, where he records his struggle with his self-image, and the manifestations of age, and his growing desire for his beautiful Westernized daughter-in-law. Between them, the two characters embody Japan, past and present.

Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious ...(展开全部)

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious ...(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。

This lovingly crafted first novel by former 'Washington Post' correspondent John Burgess revives the rites and rhythms of the ancient culture that built the temples of Angkor, then abandoned them to the jungle. In telling her tale, Sray takes the reader to a hilltop monastery, a concubine pavilion and across the seas to the throne room of imperial China. She witnesses the const...(展开全部)

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...(展开全部)

作者简介 肖恩•白塞尔（Shaun Bythell）是苏格兰最大的二手书店、一家名叫“书店”的书店的店主，他也是威格敦图书节（Wigtown Book Festival）的组织者之一。《书店日记》是肖恩的第一部作品。 . 译者简介 顾真，编辑、译者。译有《小夜曲》《眼泪的化学》《长眠不醒》《湖底女人》等作品。兼作随笔、评论，以笔名“迤逦鸦”为《澎湃•上海书评》撰写专栏，其他文章散见于《南方都市报》《书城》《外国文艺》等。