Previously published as The Mongol Mission by Sheed and Ward, Ltd., 1980.

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and eve...(展开全部)

Using his unique and familiar style, Moukhin reconstructs and explores reality of post-society in his native city Moscow. The images expose the public and private lives of various strata of citizens, different kinds of political, public or artistic groups and subcultures. This way, the book covers the great epoch of changes and course of life of numerous generations of Moscovit...(展开全部)

"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion, contending with an enormously demanding and challenging job."--Robert Coles, "Ne...(展开全部)

"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion, contending with an enormously demanding and challenging job."--Robert Coles, "Ne...(展开全部)

韦涅季克特•叶罗费耶夫（1938—1990），俄罗斯天才作家。早年在莫斯科大学就读时就表现出是一个“天生的语言学家”，但他一生大部分时间却只能混迹底层，当过装卸工、酒瓶收购员、地质钻探工、图书管理员等工作，其足迹曾遍及乌克兰、白俄罗斯以及俄罗斯的莫斯科州、北极地区等地。叶罗费耶夫从少年时代起就开始写作，但是由于生性懒散、不善管理，大部分作品都已散佚或没有完成。他完成并已出版的著作有《从莫斯科到佩图什基》《滑稽演员眼中的瓦西里• 罗赞诺夫》《女妖五朔节之夜，或骑士的脚步》等。 译者张冰，北京师范大学教授。译有俄罗斯文学作品多种。

韦涅季克特•叶罗费耶夫（1938—1990），俄罗斯天才作家。早年在莫斯科大学就读时就表现出是一个“天生的语言学家”，但他一生大部分时间却只能混迹底层，当过装卸工、酒瓶收购员、地质钻探工、图书管理员等工作，其足迹曾遍及乌克兰、白俄罗斯以及俄罗斯的莫斯科州、北极地区等地。叶罗费耶夫从少年时代起就开始写作，但是由于生性懒散、不善管理，大部分作品都已散佚或没有完成。他完成并已出版的著作有《从莫斯科到佩图什基》《滑稽演员眼中的瓦西里• 罗赞诺夫》《女妖五朔节之夜，或骑士的脚步》等。 译者张冰，北京师范大学教授。译有俄罗斯文学作品多种。

The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is uniqu...(展开全部)

The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is uniqu...(展开全部)

这本书是谁写的？ 珊农•海尔(Shannon Hale) 不是吹牛，我从小就有讲故事的天赋，常常自编自导，带兄弟姐妹一起表演迷你短剧。长大后，我还是喜欢写故事。我丈夫也是个作家，《谁来当王妃》的创作灵感就是和他聊天聊出来的。他说到一本有趣的好书，故事的主角是一个“在皇宫里教导公主的老师”。 这本书2005年出版后，不仅荣获《纽约时报》最佳畅销书，更荣获2006年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖。