Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crim...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays. Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning jour...(展开全部)

In 1908, the White Star Line announced it was constructing a pair of sister ships at the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The new behemoths would dwarf even the largest ships of the time, being fully

在线阅读本书 Ramona just wants everyone to be happy. If only her father would smile and joke again, her mother would look less worried, her sister would be cheerful, and Picky-picky would eat his cat-food. But Ramona's father has lost his job, and nobody in the Quimby household is in a very good mood. Ramona tries to cheer up the family as only Ramona can -- by rehearsing for life...(展开全部)

伊迪丝·内斯比特(Edith Nesbit 1858～1924)，这是一个辉煌的名字，她是一位儿童文学作家，大部分作品都发表在上个世纪末和本世纪初，也就是说，距今已有一百年了。但直到今天，她一百年前所写的作品却依然畅销，于世界各地拥有众多的读者。她就宛如儿童文学史上的一颗长尾彗星，其光芒从十九世纪一直横亘到二十世纪的天空。因此，于日本出版的《英美儿童文学》一书中，有评论家甚至不忌溢美谀词之嫌，这样写道：「伊迪丝·内斯比特不仅是英国儿童文学史上第一个黄金时代的巨星，也是二十世纪儿童文学的伟大源泉。」她在自己的作品中，不是把现实中的孩子带入一个幻想的世界，而是把幻想世界的人物带入了孩子们的日常生活，这大大拉近了作品与读者的距离，让孩子们觉得这故事是在述说他们自己身边的故事，而不再是「很久很久以前」的故事，从而使作品拥有了批判现实的力量

保罗•阿扎尔（Paul Hazard, 1878-1944），法国二十世纪上半叶著名学者、历史学家，先后任教于法国里昂大学、巴黎索帮大学以及美国哥伦比亚大学，1939年入选法兰西学院院士。代表作有《欧洲意识危机：1680-1715》、《十八世纪欧洲思想史：从孟德斯鸠到莱辛》、《书，儿童与成人》等。

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。

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag le...(展开全部)