The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939. The book is, in one sense, the story of a publican in Chapelizod (near Dublin), his wife, and their three children; but Mr. Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Mrs. Anna Li...(展开全部)

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939. The book is, in one sense, the story of a publican in Chapelizod (near Dublin), his wife, and their three children; but Mr. Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Mrs. Anna Li...(展开全部)

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide ...(展开全部)

"One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation"("SF Site") comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web's awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math-and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigat...(展开全部)

WWW:WAKE During his decades-spanning career, award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer has "undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation" (SF Site). Now he adds to his impressive body of work with an imaginative and mind-blowing new trilogy of the web — and its awakening ... Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at...(展开全部)

羅伯特．索耶Robert J. Sawyer 星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎得主 加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一 史上只有七位作家得過全部科幻最高獎項星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎，索耶是其中之一。他總計贏得四十一座國際獎項，更前無古人地贏得三次科幻界最高獎金「西班牙加泰隆尼亞理工大學科幻獎」。他同樣榮獲三次日本星雲獎最佳翻譯長篇，以及二○○七中國銀河獎最受歡迎外國科幻作家。 索耶是加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一，更是加拿大主流小說榜Top Ten，曾奪下軌跡雜誌暢銷榜第一。在加拿大《筆與紙》書評雜誌Quill & Quire列出的三十位加拿大出版界重要人物中，索耶是三位作家其中一位。他的網齡超過二十五年，更是全世界第一個架設個人網站的科幻作家。 索耶復興了硬派科幻小說的傳統，以其出自純科學的大膽假定，追隨艾西莫夫和海萊因等大師的路數。他不但囊括科幻三大獎，更與《時...(展开全部)

羅伯特．索耶Robert J. Sawyer 星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎得主 加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一 史上只有七位作家得過全部科幻最高獎項星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎，索耶是其中之一。他總計贏得四十一座國際獎項，更前無古人地贏得三次科幻界最高獎金「西班牙加泰隆尼亞理工大學科幻獎」。他同樣榮獲三次日本星雲獎最佳翻譯長篇，以及二○○七中國銀河獎最受歡迎外國科幻作家。 索耶是加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一，更是加拿大主流小說榜Top Ten，曾奪下軌跡雜誌暢銷榜第一。在加拿大《筆與紙》書評雜誌Quill & Quire列出的三十位加拿大出版界重要人物中，索耶是三位作家其中一位。他的網齡超過二十五年，更是全世界第一個架設個人網站的科幻作家。 索耶復興了硬派科幻小說的傳統，以其出自純科學的大膽假定，追隨艾西莫夫和海萊因等大師的路數。他不但囊括科幻三大獎，更與《時...(展开全部)

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. The volume includes poems on crickets...(展开全部)

A little baby sleeps through everything from a beeping car and a barking dog to a ringing telephone, but when a tiny buzzing fly disturbs his slumber, the baby cannot be lulled back to sleep by anything but a kiss by his big sister.