在线阅读本书 Chester, a wild horse who wants to be tame, comes to the city looking for a home. Reading for fun: the artists sense of pacing makes this book race along. Saturday Review.

汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pan...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)