‘An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD.’ – Bill Gates Selected as a book of the year in THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE AMAZON.COM’s BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ________________________ Tara Westover and her family ...(展开全部)

By Tara Westover. Random House; 385 pages; $28. Hutchinson; [pounds sterling]14.99 A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing. The author grew up in a normally opaque environment: a Mormon survivalist household in Idaho, where she endured abuse and received no education. Despite not setting foot in a classroom until she was 17, she made it to university and wound up with a PhD fr...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 诺思罗普·弗莱（Northrop Frye ，1912—1991），加拿大文学理论界代表人物，原型批评创始人。真正把文学批评当作一门独立的学科，对其自身进行比较系统的探讨，是从弗莱的《批评的解剖》开始的。另著有《世俗的经典》《神力的语言》等30余部著作。 弗莱是加拿大文学领域的杰出代表，1951年入选加拿大皇家学会，1967年任多伦多大学教授，曾获加拿大勋章、加拿大总督文学奖、多伦多文科终身成就奖等众多奖项。2000年，加拿大政府为纪念弗莱，发行了弗莱主题邮票并设立了诺思罗普·弗莱国际艺术节。 ··· 【译者简介】 李雪菲，北京大学法语系学士学位，巴黎索邦大学文学硕士学位，纽约大学法语系博士在读。

Addressed to educators and general readers--the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life--this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge ...(展开全部)

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life throu...(展开全部)

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life throu...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal "One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out tha...(展开全部)

Let your vocabulary speak for itself. Knowing which words to use and how to use them is key to communicating accurately and effectively. That’s why more than one million people have used Word Smart to improve their vocabularies! This updated 5th edition defines and explains more than 1,400 need-to-know vocabulary words. To create this book, thePrinceton Review analyzed new...(展开全部)

Let your vocabulary speak for itself. Knowing which words to use and how to use them is key to communicating accurately and effectively. That’s why more than one million people have used Word Smart to improve their vocabularies! This updated 5th edition defines and explains more than 1,400 need-to-know vocabulary words. To create this book, thePrinceton Review analyzed new...(展开全部)