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。

Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, s...(展开全部)

帕特里克·怀特Patrick White （1912—1990） 澳大利亚小说家、剧作家，20世纪最重要的英语作家之一。1973年因为“以融会了史诗风格和心理描写的叙事艺术，将一座新大陆引入文学地图”荣获诺贝尔文学奖。 怀特一生创作颇丰，出版有《人树》（1955）、《探险家沃斯》（1957）、《乘战车的人》（1961）、《风暴眼》（1973）、《树叶裙》（1976）等长篇小说12部，中短篇小说集3部，此外还有剧作8部，以及诗歌、自传及未出版作品多种。 怀特的作品笔触细腻、富于诗意，擅长在意识流及叙事之间自由切换，具有极高的艺术水准。怀特一生拒绝了无数文学奖项，也很少接受媒体采访。1990年9月病逝于他在悉尼的公寓。

Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, al...(展开全部)

Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion nevertheless maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and ever more widely discussed phenomenology. And while Marion will want to insist on a clear distinction between the theological and phenomenological projects, to read each in light of...(展开全部)

First published in 1912, this is Grey's best-known book and one of the most successful westerns of all time.

'With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.' The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure J...(展开全部)

There were five of them altogether. Five misfits. ÿÿÿÿ The five had never amounted to much in life, nor did they feel like doing anything. And then one day, from who knows where, came an extraordinary fellow... When Mr Perfect comes to stay, the five misfits find themselves questioning what their purpose in life is. Can they teach him that not fitting in is more fun than trying...(展开全部)

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。