In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three tim

尤里•波里索维奇•叶拉金（Юрий Борисович Елагин，1910—1987），曾供职于苏联瓦赫坦戈夫剧院担任小提琴手，后毕业于莫斯科音乐学院。“二战”后，辗转至美国，在休斯顿交响乐团任第一小提琴手。对苏联艺术生活有深刻观察，另著有《弗谢沃洛德•梅耶荷德（1874—1940）——黑色的天才》。

Edith Nesbit wrote with supreme confidence about the lives of children and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis, the trio in The Railway Children , reflect her faith in the resourcefulness, capacity for adventure, and instinctive heroism of the young. This edition of her most popular book restores the splendid original illustrations of C. E. Brock.

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。

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。

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the...(展开全部)

【导语】 When their father is sent away to prison ,three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway,making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves. In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when,...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)