Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edit...(展开全部)

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。

Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Like many of Dickens's novels, 'Nicholas Nickleby' is characterised by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but above all it is one of the greatest comic masterpieces of 19th-century literature.

在线阅读本书 Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestn...(展开全部)

勒内·戈西尼，生于巴黎。后来他们全家移民到阿根廷，勒内·戈西尼在布宜诺斯艾利斯的法国小学和中学上学。 1950年初回到法国后，他便创造了一系列传奇人物。与桑贝创造了小尼古拉的形象，他创作的儿童语言后来造就了这位小学生的成功。然后戈西尼与阿尔贝·于得左创造了阿斯特里克这一人物，这个小个子高卢人的名声大振，这套丛书也被译成了107种文字。阿斯特里克的历险记成为世界上阅读最多的著作之一。同时戈西尼与英里斯一起创作了《吕基·律克》，与塔巴里创造了《巴格达怪杰》，与戈特利布创造了《丹哥文件》。 作为《飞行员》杂志的主编，他改革了连环画的风格，使之成为“第九种艺术”。 戈西尼在电影方面与于得左和达尔戈一起创建了IDEFIX电影摄制公司。他拍摄了一些著名的动画片，包括《阿斯特里克与克娄巴特拉》、《阿斯特里克的十二项壮举》、《戴西城》、《...(展开全部)

Nicholas Kaldor spent his childhood in Hungary before settling in London and absorbing the influences of Hayek and Keynes, among others. By the end of the 1930s, he had risen to the peak of his profession, and his work on equilibrium, welfare economics, trade cycles, growth theory, and the economics of 'total war' were seminal. His wartime writings influenced the creation of th...(展开全部)

Nicholas Kaldor spent his childhood in Hungary before settling in London and absorbing the influences of Hayek and Keynes, among others. By the end of the 1930s, he had risen to the peak of his profession, and his work on equilibrium, welfare economics, trade cycles, growth theory, and the economics of 'total war' were seminal. His wartime writings influenced the creation of th...(展开全部)

Who prepares the exams for foreign high-schoolers who want to go to college in England? Why, the five executives of Oxford's Foreign Exams Syndicate, of course, one of whom, deaf bachelor Nicholas Quinn, is found dead of cyanided sherry. Chief Inspector Morse suspects that Nicholas stumbled (via lip-reading) onto a security leak (the selling of forthcoming test questions to oil...(展开全部)

柯林•德克斯特（Colin Dexter ，1930— ） 德克斯特生于林肯郡的斯坦福德，就读于斯坦福德中学。完成了皇室通信兵团的服役期之后，他到剑桥大学基督学院攻读古典学，并于一九五八年获得荣誉硕士学位。毕业后，他在东米德兰兹郡开始了自己的教师生涯，一九六六年，他开始受到耳聋的困扰，不得不离开了教师岗位，接受了牛津大学地方考试院高级助理秘书官的职务——他后来一直担任这项职务，直到一九八八年退休。 他从一九七三年开始写推理小说，《开往伍德斯托克的末班车》于一九七五年出版，把莫尔斯探长这一角色介绍给了世人，这位暴躁易怒的侦探醉心于填字游戏、英国文学、桶装鲜啤酒和瓦格纳的音乐，而这些其实就是德克斯特自己的嗜好。主人公莫尔斯探长是英国泰晤士河谷警察局的高级警官，工作地点位于牛津，年龄约五十多岁，单身。从社会政治角度看，莫尔斯探长是一个有趣而复杂的人物，在一...(展开全部)