Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

With acclaimed works like "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty," Irish author Sebastian Barry has earned a reputation as a amaster storytellera ("The Wall Street Journal"). In "A Long Long Way" he has created an unforgettable portrait of the horrors of war through the story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front. C...(展开全部)

"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn’s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the $6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn’s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the $6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with ...(展开全部)

A rare look inside the world of activist hedge funds from one of this country's top investors In 2002, David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital, gave a speech at a charity investment conference and was asked to share his best investment idea. He described his reasons why Greenlight had sold short the shares of Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. ...(展开全部)

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)