In this outrageously farcical adventure, heroGeorge Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens todestroy his community in this brilliant"fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" ( Time ).

In this outrageously farcical adventure, heroGeorge Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens todestroy his community in this brilliant"fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" ( Time ).

约翰·巴思（John Barth，1930—2024），毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学新闻系，曾在宾夕法尼亚州立大学英语系任教，于1973年获美国国家图书奖，是美国后现代主义小说及元小说的代表作家之一。巴思是豪·路·博尔赫斯、伊塔洛·卡尔维诺、罗兰·巴特、米兰·昆德拉推崇的作家，他的作品通常涉及反讽、戏仿等手法，主要著作包括《飘浮的歌剧》（The Floating Opera）、《路的尽头》（The End of the Road）、《烟草经纪人》（The Sot-Weed Factor）、《羊孩贾尔斯》（Giles Goat-Boy）、《迷失在游乐场》（Lost in the Funhouse）、《客迈拉》（Chimera）、《星期五之书：随笔及其他非虚构作品》（The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non¬ction）等。...(展开全部)

约翰·巴思（John Barth，1930—2024），毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学新闻系，曾在宾夕法尼亚州立大学英语系任教，于1973年获美国国家图书奖，是美国后现代主义小说及元小说的代表作家之一。巴思是豪·路·博尔赫斯、伊塔洛·卡尔维诺、罗兰·巴特、米兰·昆德拉推崇的作家，他的作品通常涉及反讽、戏仿等手法，主要著作包括《飘浮的歌剧》（The Floating Opera）、《路的尽头》（The End of the Road）、《烟草经纪人》（The Sot-Weed Factor）、《羊孩贾尔斯》（Giles Goat-Boy）、《迷失在游乐场》（Lost in the Funhouse）、《客迈拉》（Chimera）、《星期五之书：随笔及其他非虚构作品》（The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non¬ction）等。...(展开全部)

《绿鸡蛋和火腿》的创作源于苏斯博士和一位朋友打赌，能否用五十个单词写成一个故事。于是便有了这本脍炙人口的书。故事是容易引起孩子共鸣的熟悉话题——要不要尝试新食物。故事情节发展激烈，一个拼命劝，一个玩命躲，最后的结局出人意料。苏斯博士的语言是节奏感很强的韵文，朗朗上口，书中所用词汇很少，而且句子结构大量重复，只置换少量单词，孩子一旦记住了第一句，后边的句子很容易读出来，让孩子颇有成就感。 Illus. in color. Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham.

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawr...(展开全部)

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawr...(展开全部)

"Farmer Duck" is an amusing fable. Martin Waddell's awards include the Smarties Book Prize for "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?", and "Farmer Duck", the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award for "The Park in the Dark" and the Best Books for Babies Award for "Rosies Babies". His other books include "The Big Big Sea", "Owl Babies", "Let's Go Home Little Bear", "John Joe and the Hen" and the "Li...(展开全部)

Martin Waddell's uplifting modern fable and Helen Oxenbury's humor and pathos make this a very special collaboration. Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, t...(展开全部)