Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly common sense in this study of how and why The Ring took the shape it did. It is only a portion of the enormous book he had planned...(展开全部)

The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, and paws . . . In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, and how perspective shapes what we see. When you see a cat, what do you see?

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

以《死神的精確度》風靡文壇影壇 愛與和平好青年－－伊坂幸太郎 成功背叛讀者預期，寫作至今爭議性最高的異數作品！ 伊坂主題樂園中，唯一無法歸類的任性之作 「我想寫一個天才的一生。」 這是屬於伊坂的馬克白，是屬於王者的悲劇寓言 2010日本「大學讀書人大獎」入圍！ （＊每年由日本全國216所大學的文藝社團選出年度大學生必讀的5本書。2010年，本書與《1Q84》、《春宵苦短，少女們前進吧！》、《植物圖鑑》、《瓶頸》共同入圍。） 背負「King of 棒球」宿命誕生的王者－－山田 王求 從出生至殞落，令人討厭的一生…… 全書多章採取第二人稱觀點的俯瞰式敘述， 加上三名預言女巫與一頭奇獸不時串場的魔幻設定， 埋伏許多莎士比亞四大悲劇之一《馬克白》的經典梗概， 天才打者王求的一生， 形同一齣動人心魄的紙上舞臺劇， 透過一干凡人的雙眼， 看著王之○歲 → 十多歲...(展开全部)