The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In "East Wind" a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite ...(展开全部)

Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a ...(展开全部)

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of , Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi’s adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the Eng...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Grasshopper, insouciant hero of Lobels free-and-easy reader, goes where the road leads, en route unsettling a series of set-in-their-ways insects. SLJ. One of the richest examples of characterization in the beginning-to-read genre. BL. Notable Children's Book of 1978 (ALA) 1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) "Best of the Best" Children's Books 19661978 (SLJ) Chil...(展开全部)

《On the Road》，杰克·凯鲁亚克的半自传体小说，是一部激情四溢的青春公路旅行宣言。它引领读者踏上一段跨越美国大陆的心灵之旅，伴随着萨尔与他的朋友们在无垠公路上的狂野奔腾，追寻着自由、爱情与生命意义的无尽探索。书中充满了对生命热情的颂歌，对即时行乐的崇尚，以及对传统束缚的挣脱。这不仅是一个时代的记录，更是对自由灵魂永恒向往的呼唤，让每个渴望逃离日常、追求不凡生活的读者，都能在其中找到共鸣与启迪。

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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 story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)

Following the war, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation. Then a Morse code sign...(展开全部)