Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he...(展开全部)

（美）维吉尼亚•汉密尔顿 （Virginia Hamilton） 非裔美国泰斗级女作家，其一生撰写的41部作品，给青少年文学树立了崭新的标杆。荣膺过包括国际安徒生奖、纽伯瑞文学奖、国家图书奖、书卷奖、爱伦坡奖、波士顿全球号角奖等几乎所有的青少年文学奖项。代表作品有《了不起的M.C.希金斯》《幽灵的低语》等。

Twisted mind: The graphic pattern genius of M. C. Escher From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitati...(展开全部)

“A woman once rang me up and said, ‘Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.’ I replied, ‘Madame, if that’s the way you see it, so be it.’” An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972)―the complex ambiguities of whose work leave ha...(展开全部)

Masao, một học sinh lớp sau, bị giáo viên mới Haneda và các bạn cùng lớp bắt nạt mà không biết lí do. Dù có ai quên làm bài tập hay lớp mất trật tự, thầy Haneda đều đổ hết tội lỗi lên đầu cậu. Trong lúc buồn bã và bế tắc vì bị bắt nạt, trước mặt Masao luôn xuất hiện một đứa trẻ trông rất giống cậu nhưng khắp người mang màu xanh tái cùng những vết thương rất đau đơn, mặc một chi...(展开全部)

[美]克莉丝汀·汉娜 1960年出生于美国南加州，曾在广告公司工作，也当过律师。可她心中始终记得母亲说过：“你将来注定要当作家的。”事实证明母亲的话永远是正确的。 现在，克里斯汀·汉娜已经是23本畅销书的作者，作品畅销全球50个国家和地区，全系列销量超过2000万册，被誉为美国当代小说天后。

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)

弗•司各特•菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", ...(展开全部)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.