A true classic, this tale of a sweet, gentle bull named Ferdinand has enchanted readers, young and old alike, since it was first published by Viking Press in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers than fight. And his pacifist tendencies remain intact even when he is picked for the bullfigh...(展开全部)

A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when our pacifist hero is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? This new edition contains the complete original te...(展开全部)

A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

作者现任美国康奈尔大学英国文学、比较文学教授、他著有《福楼拜：不确定性的种种应用》、《结构主义诗学》、《符号的追求》、《论解构》。

作者现任美国康奈尔大学英国文学、比较文学教授、他著有《福楼拜：不确定性的种种应用》、《结构主义诗学》、《符号的追求》、《论解构》。

作者现任美国康奈尔大学英国文学、比较文学教授、他著有《福楼拜：不确定性的种种应用》、《结构主义诗学》、《符号的追求》、《论解构》。

作者现任美国康奈尔大学英国文学、比较文学教授、他著有《福楼拜：不确定性的种种应用》、《结构主义诗学》、《符号的追求》、《论解构》。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. It is only when he makes an unlikely friend, an old man who lets him fly one of his pigeons in a race, that he learns how he can belong. Nicola Davies's beautiful story — an immigrant's tale with powerful resonance in our troubled times — is illustrated...(展开全部)