From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, take...(展开全部)

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, "Elizabeth Costello" is, on the surface, the story of a womanas life as mother, sist...(展开全部)

We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. She will change the way you see the world. 'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.' Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always t...(展开全部)

亚历克西斯·迪肯（AlexisDeacon），备受瞩目的英国新锐插画家，儿童绘本作家。从小就迷恋画画，深深崇拜莫里斯·桑达克、昆廷·布莱克和约翰·伯宁罕等绘本大师。2001年，他以第一名的成绩获得英国布莱顿大学插画系荣誉学位。2003年，以自写自绘的绘本《小小外星人》入围凯特·格林纳威奖，并荣登《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本榜。之后，又陆续创作了《当你睡着的时候》《鳄鱼和小鸟》等大受好评的绘本，并以《懒猴》入围蓝彼得图书奖。2008年，迪肯入选英国十大最佳新锐插画家，《泰晤士报》甚至给出“迪肯很可能成为约翰·伯宁罕接班人”的激赞。目前他以创作故事为主，经常与插画家维维亚娜·施瓦茨合作，代表作有《我是小雀鸟亨利》《你的奶酪》《一个叫做家的地方》。现居住在伦敦。 维维亚娜·施瓦茨（VivianeSchwarz），英国儿童绘本作家和插画家，作品幽默诙谐、用色大胆...(展开全部)

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face had enthralled Elizabethan London. Now Manteo was returne...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 贾尔斯·米尔顿（Giles Milton），英国作家和历史学家，他的作品畅销全球，包括《改变历史的香料商人》《武士威廉》等，现居伦敦。

◎ 著者简介 贾尔斯·米尔顿（Giles Milton），英国作家和历史学家，他的作品畅销全球，包括《改变历史的香料商人》《武士威廉》等，现居伦敦。

Captive American Indian Manteo was returned to his homeland as Governor, a gamble that resulted in the first English settlement in the New World. Using first-hand accounts, this book tells the full story and its extraordinary twist.

American artist Elizabeth Peyton is one of the outstanding painters of her generation, a painter known for her intimate figurative portraits of youthful, romantic people, ranging from friends, to historical figures, to music world celebrities. Her work is intensely personal, but the subject becomes an intimate of both audience and artist. Peyton's ability to draw the viewer in ...(展开全部)