A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

作者简介 约翰·乔治·尼古拉，林肯总统的私人秘书，林肯学会主席，研究林肯总统、废奴运动及 美国内战的权威学者，他的代表作品《林肯时代：废奴运动与南北战争》是学界公认的研究林肯总统的不可替代的史源性作品。 译者简介 王伟芳，陕西省洋县人，现任教于西北师范大学外国语学院，讲师。2008年及2011年分别获西北师范大学教学质量优秀教师奖。译著有《汉尼拔》和《尼禄》

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。

The first short biography of the sixteenth president by America's preeminent Civil War historian, Abraham Lincoln follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation's capitol. February of 2009 marks the bicentennial of his birth and this book will be a compact, concise history of a man with big ideals a...(展开全部)

The first short biography of the sixteenth president by America's preeminent Civil War historian, Abraham Lincoln follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation's capitol. February of 2009 marks the bicentennial of his birth and this book will be a compact, concise history of a man with big ideals a...(展开全部)

托马斯•基尼利（Thomas Keneally），生于1935年，被誉为澳大利亚最成功和多产的当代作家。著有《盗贼联邦》《大耻辱》《美国无赖》等九部非虚构类作品，以及二十余部小说，其中《带来云雀与英雄》《三呼圣灵》赢得澳洲文学界最高奖迈尔斯•弗兰克林文学奖。曾获三次布克奖提名，最终在1982年凭借《辛德勒方舟》获得布克奖，据其改编的《辛德勒名单》获奥斯卡奖，已成电影经典。1983年，因对澳大利亚文学的贡献被授予澳大利亚勋章。

The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows ...(展开全部)

This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found [online].