帕·林·特拉芙斯(1899—1996)出生于澳大利亚，在一个甘蔗种植园里度过了她的童年时代，20多岁时在家乡当过舞蹈演员、记者，后移居英国。1933年她住英国的苏塞克斯开始创作奇幻文学作品《随风而来的玛丽阿姨》。该书于1934年出版，并很快在英国和美国取得了巨人的成功。1964年，美国迪士尼公司将她的作品搬上了银幕。随之，玛丽阿姨在欧美国家成了家喻户晓的人物形象。自1935年到1988年，她又先后出版了7部以玛丽阿姨为主人公的系列奇幻文学作品。 特拉芙斯足20世纪具有世界影响力的奇幻文学作家，她的作品以其丰富的想像力和强烈的幽默感而著称。她笔下的玛丽阿姨是在世界儿童文学史上占有毋要地位的、为数不多的人物形象之一。玛丽阿姨足个神通广大，心地善良的保姆，她撑着一把伞从天而降，来到班克斯家。此后她小停地创造孩子们只有在梦中才能见到的奇迹。 ...(展开全部)

Who can slide "up" banisters, banish naughtiness with a swift "Spit-spot," and turn a make-believe sidewalk drawing into a lovely day in the park? Mary Poppins, of course From the moment the beloved nanny arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life for the Banks family is full of excitement. With the smash-hit London musical adaptation of Mary Poppins coming to...(展开全部)

Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author’s key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane.

I called his name...I settled on a bench...I was amazed...I felt really, really happy...Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions. There's the bossy woman, the sad man, the lonely boy and the young girl whose warmth touches those she meets. As the story moves from one voice to another, their perspectives are reflected in the shifting landsca...(展开全部)

I called his name...I settled on a bench...I was amazed...I felt really, really happy...Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions. There's the bossy woman, the sad man, the lonely boy and the young girl whose warmth touches those she meets. As the story moves from one voice to another, their perspectives are reflected in the shifting landsca...(展开全部)

Kohei Yoshiyuki's night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. "The Park"'s images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurki...(展开全部)

Kohei Yoshiyuki's night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. "The Park"'s images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurki...(展开全部)

A rest, a moment ... a shelter, a refuge ... a crossroads, a meeting place... just a few pieces of wood and steel.

Desert D'Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood's elite converge when they need a break. It is an incestuous hothouse of a town - a haven for manipulators, film stars, lovers, pimps, producers, whores, gamblers, scriptwriters and cheats. Into this nightmare world of depravity arrives Sergius O'Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, traumatised by...(展开全部)

科尔姆•托宾，爱尔兰当代著名作家。他1955年生于爱尔兰韦克斯福德郡恩尼斯科西镇。毕业于都柏林大学。自1990年发表第一部小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版九部长篇小说，两部短篇小说集，多部戏剧、游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《马利亚的自白》（2012）都入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度都柏林国际文学奖等文学奖。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。《名门》（2017）是他最新一部长篇小说。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。 目前，托宾担任哥伦比亚大学英文与比较文学系Irene and Sidney B. Silverman 人文讲席教授，自2017年起也担任...(展开全部)