When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right. Cleverly using the physicality of the book, This book just ate my dog! is inventive, ingenious, and just pure kid-friendly fun!

In this wonderfully inventive book, Bella is taking her dog for a stroll across the page but halfway across, he disappears! Unable to quite believe what's just happened Bella watches, transfixed, with changing emotions of surprise, indignation, moments of renewed hope (as the authorities arrive to take control) followed by shock (as they too succumb to the book's inexplicable b...(展开全部)

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through ...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆•格林（Graham Greene，1904-1991）英国作家、剧作家、文学评论家。一生获得21次诺贝尔文学奖提名（但终未获奖），被誉为诺贝尔文学奖评选史上“最大的输家”。文学界形容其风格为“格林国度”（Greeneland）。他被誉为20世纪最严肃、最悲观、最具宗教意识的作家，可同时又是讲故事的圣手，是20世纪整个西方世界最具明星效应的大师级作家之一。他的作品探讨了当今世界充满矛盾的政治和道德问题，将通俗文学和严肃文学有机地结合在一起，获得了广泛好评。

(Twentieth Century Classics)

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin wou...(展开全部)

漆黑的流星划破长空，破碎的黎明迎来毁灭。

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would...(展开全部)

漆黑的流星划破长空，破碎的黎明迎来毁灭。