爱丽丝·普罗文森（1918年8月—）和马丁·普罗文森（1916年7月10日—1987年3月27日）是美国著名童书作家兼插画家的“双子组合”。这对夫妻各自的早年经历有惊人的相似之处：都出生于芝加哥的伊利诺斯，12岁时都搬到加利福尼亚，后来都获得芝加哥艺术学院的奖学金，又都进入加利福尼亚大学读书，尽管是在不同的校区。大学毕业后，爱丽丝进入以创作《啄木鸟伍迪》闻名的沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，马丁则去了这家工作室的竞争对手沃特·迪士尼工作室，在那里，他与人合作了《小象丹波》、《幻想曲》和《木偶奇遇记》。 1943年，马丁为创作有关美国军事训练的电影，被派到沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，因此与爱丽丝结识，两人于1944年在华盛顿喜结连理并定居。在那里，他们合作了与二战相关的作品。二战结束后，他们搬到纽约，朋友帮他们找到了一份工作：为《炉边民歌》绘插图。1952年，马丁设计...(展开全部)

In 1933, Shih-I Hsiung (1902–1991), a student from China, met with Allardyce Nicoll, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of London, to discuss his PhD study in English drama. After learning about Hsiung’s interest and background, Nicoll suggested that he should consider studying Chinese drama for his dissertation and writing a play of a Chinese subject. Hsiung took the ad...(展开全部)

In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed...(展开全部)

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that fo...(展开全部)

自幼失去父母但仍过着平静生活的白雨,生活在人口不足5万人的玉山市,伴随着自己的青梅竹马过着生活学习双重忙碌的日子.然而美丽的生活中暗藏着黑暗阴影. 校门口的分尸事件,学校屋顶上逝去的生命,白雨渐渐了解到这座城市不为人知的一幕. ...

It's 1918. Boston. A city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish influenza. Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for revolutionaries and anarchists who, in the aftermath of war, are pledged to overthrow the city's ruling classes. But Danny soon finds...(展开全部)

In this charming picture book, a cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day. Buoyant verse just right for reading aloud and bright, playful illustrations capture the singular feeling of a hazy, lazy day by the ocean, complete with a ball game with new friends, water-skiers and sailboats, and a picnic lunch of fried chicken and deviled egg...(展开全部)

With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Henry--lonely, friendless, not too good at sports--spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of his female classmates. For company Henry has his long-divorced mother, Adele--a on...(展开全部)

This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an ‘Existence Period’ – selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering ...(展开全部)