"This is the amazing story of a little boy, Peter, who adores his mother so much that he wants to give her the moon as a present. But the moon is so far and he is so small He climbs onto his father's shoulders, but still he is not tall enough to reach the moon. He asks his cousins for help, but still Peter cannot reach the moon... After having built a huge human pyramid, he r...(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。

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric cari...(展开全部)

他是常人眼中的疯子，也是终身跋涉的圣徒。在不惑之年，他抛弃了遍地的六便士，开始寻找心中的月亮。

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric cari...(展开全部)

他是常人眼中的疯子，也是终身跋涉的圣徒。在不惑之年，他抛弃了遍地的六便士，开始寻找心中的月亮。

William Somerset Maugham nWilliam Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874-16 December 1965) was a British playwright， novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. nAfter losing both his parents by the age of 10， Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to b...(展开全部)

‘Of course that’s how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours’ When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of ...(展开全部)

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 罗伯特·K. 马西（Robert K. Massie），美国历史学家、作家、普利策奖得主、罗德学者。生于美国肯塔基州，曾在耶鲁大学攻读美国史，在牛津大学攻读欧洲史，1987—1991年间担任美国作家协会主席。其写作主要集中于对罗曼诺夫王朝及俄国皇室的研究，著有《通往权力之路：叶卡捷琳娜大帝》（Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman）、《尼古拉和亚历山德拉：对罗曼诺夫王朝覆灭的经典描述》（Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty）、《罗曼诺夫王朝：终章》（The Romanovs: The Final Chapter）等。 【译者简介】 孟嘉伦，作家、译者，爱好文史，著有《枭雄录》，...(展开全部)