In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, JoséSaramago has spun a novel already heralded as a triumph of language, imagination, and humor”( El País ). Solomonand...(展开全部)

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, JoséSaramago has spun a novel already heralded as “a triumph of language, imagination, and humor”( El País ). Solomon...(展开全部)

若泽·萨拉马戈（José Saramago，1922-2010） 葡萄牙作家。1947年出版首部小说《罪孽之地》，1995年获葡萄牙语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖。1998年，因其“充满想象、同情和讽喻的寓言故事，不断地使我们对虚幻的现实加深理解”，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。 萨拉马戈的作品风格独特，内涵深刻，作品主题大多关心的是人类的命运与世界的前途。写作手法上，他创立了一种充满想象、隐喻和讽刺的小说类型，赢得了无数读者的赞誉。 他一生创作了数十部小说和其他文学作品，已经被翻译成30多种语言，总销售超过350万册，主要作品包括《修道院纪事》、《洞穴》、《双生》、《石筏》等。

Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Lutheran cousin with an overtly Catholic present. But it means the poor pachyder...(展开全部)

When I was born, there were a million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was born in 2015, the numbers of savannah elephants had crashed to just 350,000. At the current pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns twenty-five the African elephant could be gone from the wild. HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge An elephant is killed in Africa every...(展开全部)

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Elephants Cannot Dance! Piggie tries to teach Gerald some new moves. But will Gerald teach Piggie something even more important?

《大象的证词》讲述了：赫尔克里·波洛伫立于崖顶。多年之前，这里发生了一起悲剧性的事故；更令人惊疑的是，随后又有一对夫妻双双陈尸于此——两人均中枪身亡。可他们究竟死于何人之手？莫非是二人约定自杀？还是一时冲动犯罪？抑或残忍的谋杀？波洛回溯遥远的往事，走进旧罪那长长的阴影之中…… With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past--before the tragic piece of history repeats itself.

在濒临海边的一间房子里，雷文斯克罗夫特将军夫妇双双毙命，是凶杀，还是自杀？两具尸体之间有一枝左轮手枪，枪上的指纹已经模糊，这件事情似乎与将军年轻漂亮的女秘书有关。 Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver again turns to Hercule Poirot, this time to solve a case the police consider closed. Olivers interest in the murder-suicide of General and Lady Ravenscroft is more than academic: Celia Ravenscroft is her goddaughter. This is one of Poirot's most daunting cases even ...(展开全部)

若泽·萨拉马戈（José Saramago，1922-2010） 葡萄牙作家。1947年出版首部小说《罪孽之地》，1995年获葡萄牙语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖。1998年，因其“充满想象、同情和讽喻的寓言故事，不断地使我们对虚幻的现实加深理解”，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。 萨拉马戈的作品风格独特，内涵深刻，作品主题大多关心的是人类的命运与世界的前途。写作手法上，他创立了一种充满想象、隐喻和讽刺的小说类型，赢得了无数读者的赞誉。 他一生创作了数十部小说和其他文学作品，已经被翻译成30多种语言，总销售超过350万册，主要作品包括《修道院纪事》、《洞穴》、《双生》、《石筏》等。

Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Lutheran cousin with an overtly Catholic present. But it means the poor pachyder...(展开全部)