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)

Setting the romantic rural Scotland of the late 17th century against the prosaic cities of Glasgow and London, this story paints a tragic portait of Rob Roy MacGregor. The feudal world of the Highlands withers away under the onslaught of new commercial and political realities.

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Ki...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause.

Six-year-old Ollie is given his first pair of real skis. As soon as the snow begins to fall he sets off on an adventure by himself to the palace of King Winter. Along the way he meets Jack Frost, who makes everything sparkle, and Mrs Thaw, who makes everything melt. At the palace, he meets children helping to make Christmas presents - until breaktime, when they rush outside for...(展开全部)

Six-year-old Ollie is given his first pair of real skis. As soon as the snow begins to fall he sets off on an adventure by himself to the palace of King Winter.

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。

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。

Wonderful retrospective of Beksiński's amazing art. Many paintings in color. Text in Polish.

Wonderful retrospective of Beksiński's amazing art. Many paintings in color. Text in Polish.