Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.

多麗絲·萊辛（Doris Lessing, 1919- ），英國現當代最重要的作家之一。生於波斯（今伊朗），5歲時隨家人遷往南非羅德西亞（今津巴布韋）。萊辛的童年是在農場中度過的。 1949 年，萊辛攜帶她的第一部小說手稿初回英國。這部題為《青草在歌唱》的小說是她的處女作，於1950年在英國出版，一舉成功，並同時在美國及十個歐洲國家出版發行。她的國際聲譽亦由此建立，創作一發而不可收。 不僅她的長篇小說，她的幻想小說以及短篇小說的創作也取得了令人矚目的成就。其中，短篇小說集《五》獲得薩默塞特·毛姆文學獎。1981年獲奧地利的歐洲文學國家獎，1982年獲得德意志莎士比亞文學獎，代表作有五卷本的《暴力的孩子》系列、《金色筆記》、《黑暗來臨前的夏季》、《倖存者的回憶錄》等。短篇小說則多收入了《第十九號房間》及《傑克·奧尼爾的誘惑》兩部集子中。五卷本的小說系列...(展开全部)

One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)

One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)