FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS. --The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary jour...(展开全部)

FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS. --The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary jour...(展开全部)

美术课下课啦，葳葳的图画纸上空白一片，她对老师说：「我就是不 会画图呀！」幸好老师很聪明，她平静温和地鼓励葳葳试着画几笔。 没想到火气不小的葳葳抓起笔来，用力往纸上点了一下，「喏！」顺 手把画纸递给老师交差了事。老师没半点不高兴，看了看纸上那一个 点，想了想，把画纸推回葳葳面前，轻轻说了句：「请签名。」葳葳 想她虽然不会画画，但签名难不倒她，就在纸上签了名。 没想到一星期后，她走进美术教室，竟发现自己那张只画了一个点的 画，被配上金色的画框，悬挂在老师的座位后面。望着那张画，葳葳 两手交叉在胸前，皱着眉头说：「嗯！我可以画得更好！」于是她打 开从来没用过的水彩盒，开始认真地涂涂画画。她画了一张又一张， 黄点、绿点、红点、蓝点，小点、中点、大点，各式各样的点。几个 星期后，她的点点画在学校的联展上超受欢迎。有个来看画的小男生 仰慕地望着葳葳，小男孩觉得...(展开全部)

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

Book Description The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure. An ingenio...(展开全部)

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment w...(展开全部)

A dark offering from the Queen of Crime. This represents the world-famous author's most successful foray into the dark world of murder and black magic. To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when th...(展开全部)