This "Norton Critical Edition of Kim" is now available for the first time in the European Union. Recognised as Rudyard Kipling's finest work, "Kim" was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the 1901 first English edition, annotated for undergraduate readers. Background material includes selections from Kipling's autobiography, letters, short storie...(展开全部)

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...(展开全部)

In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed, concise comics. ...(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。

A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. It is only when he makes an unlikely friend, an old man who lets him fly one of his pigeons in a race, that he learns how he can belong. Nicola Davies's beautiful story — an immigrant's tale with powerful resonance in our troubled times — is illustrated...(展开全部)

A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller by Poland’s literary phenomenon―his first to be translated into English. It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub Szapiro commands respect, revered as a hero by the Jewish community. Outside, he instills fear as he muscles through Warsaw as enforcer for...(展开全部)

此书系英国诺贝尔文学奖得主吉普林的代表作，最早出版于20世纪初。故事是是俄罗斯与英国在中亚地区的政治冲突为背景而展开的。故事集中描写了1881年“第二次阿富汗战争”结束后，1893年“第三次阿富汗战争”前的比较平静的时间里的故事。故事的最吸引读者之处是作者对人物、文化及印度地区不同宗教的入木三分的刻画。也正是因为这一点，使得作者吉普林荣获诺贝尔文学奖。现在，此小说已成为20世纪“最受读者喜爱的百部小说”中的一部。

简介：一个俄罗斯的弃婴马尔科夫被培养成职业杀手，目标是成为行业内的最强杀手，一场影响世界格局的阴谋浮出水面。打乱了马尔科夫的规划……

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。