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。

罗迪•道伊尔是爱尔兰当代最杰出的作家之一，被誉为爱尔兰的“桂冠小说家”“伟大的喜剧作家”。道伊尔擅写都柏林普通人的生活，作品极富爱尔兰风情，被《时代》杂志誉为“充满凯尔特式的黑色幽默”。1993年凭借《童年往事》获布克文学奖。除此以外，道伊尔长期活跃于国际文学、戏剧、影视界，根据其“巴里镇三部曲”之一的小说《承诺》（The Commitments)改编的电影获得英国电影和电视艺术学院奖（BEFTA Award）“最佳编剧奖”，短篇小说《新兴男孩》(New Boy）搬上银幕后入围奥斯卡最佳短片。

Synopsis It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn’t anyone help him when Charles Leavy ...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993 Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke hates his brother Francis because that’s the rule. Paddy...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera）一九二九年出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，父亲是钢琴家、音乐学院校长，昆德拉在童年时就受到良好的音乐熏陶和教育。一九六七年，他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出版，获得巨大成功，从此奠定在当代文坛的重要地位。一九七五年，昆德拉离开捷克，定居法国，他的长篇小说《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑忘录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》的原作以捷克文写成；长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》、《被背叛的遗嘱》和《相遇》的原作以法文写成。另著有戏剧《雅克和他的主人》。昆德拉曾于一九七三年凭借《生活在别处》获得美第奇外国文学奖，一九八五年获得耶路撒冷文学奖，二〇〇一年获得法兰西学院文学大奖。二零一四年，上海译文将推出昆德拉的最新小说以及全新包装的昆德拉作品集。马振骋1934年生于上海...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything---where there's a will, Guy Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything---where there's a will, Guy Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.