W.E.盖洛（William Edgar Geil），20世纪初美国著名旅行家、英国皇家地理学会会员。1865年出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州的多伊尔斯顿城。盖洛受过严格系统的地理学专业训练，对中国的历史文化抱有深厚的兴趣。1903年首次来到中国，从上海乘船逆流而上，沿途考察了长江流域的人文地理，写下了《扬子江上的美国人》（1904）一书，受到西方读者的欢迎。此后，他又数次来到中国考察，走遍了大江南北、长城内外、三山五岳，连续出版了《中国长城》（1909）、《中国十八省府》（1911）和《中国五岳》（1926）等一系列著作。

W.E.盖洛（William Edgar Geil），20世纪初美国著名旅行家、英国皇家地理学会会员。1865年出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州的多伊尔斯顿城。盖洛受过严格系统的地理学专业训练，对中国的历史文化抱有深厚的兴趣。1903年首次来到中国，从上海乘船逆流而上，沿途考察了长江流域的人文地理，写下了《扬子江上的美国人》（1904）一书，受到西方读者的欢迎。此后，他又数次来到中国考察，走遍了大江南北、长城内外、三山五岳，连续出版了《中国长城》（1909）、《中国十八省府》（1911）和《中国五岳》（1926）等一系列著作。

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legenda...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grap...(展开全部)

刘慈欣，六十年代生人，祖籍河南，山西阳泉长大，高级工程师，现在山西娘子关电厂工作。上世纪九十年代末开始发表作品，第一篇发表作品为短篇小说《鲸歌》。目前为中国科普作家协会会员，被誉为中国科幻的领军人物。 刘慈欣成功地将极端的空灵和厚重的现实结合起来，同时注重表现科学的内涵和美感，努力创造出一种具有中国特色的科幻文学样式。其作品因宏伟大气、想像绚丽而获得广泛赞誉，多次获得中国科幻银河奖。

刘慈欣，六十年代生人，祖籍河南，山西阳泉长大，高级工程师，现在山西娘子关电厂工作。上世纪九十年代末开始发表作品，第一篇发表作品为短篇小说《鲸歌》。目前为中国科普作家协会会员，被誉为中国科幻的领军人物。 刘慈欣成功地将极端的空灵和厚重的现实结合起来，同时注重表现科学的内涵和美感，努力创造出一种具有中国特色的科幻文学样式。其作品因宏伟大气、想像绚丽而获得广泛赞誉，多次获得中国科幻银河奖。

在线阅读本书 Book Description Presiding over the small Sicilian village of Adano during World War II, an Italian-American major wins the love and admiration of the natives when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the Fascists. Although situated during one of the most devastating experiences in human history, John He...(展开全部)