Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and Illustrated by Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until...(展开全部)

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. The final book opens like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door ...(展开全部)

Grade 1-6. Thompson creates a futuristic world in which the Earth is shrouded in a yellow, polluted mist and only the "weakest wash of sunshine" comes through. The richest man in the world and his grandson set out to penetrate the fog in order to see the sun. Collecting buildings from every continent, they spend years fabricating a tower. Finally, the leaning tower of Pisa is s...(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森 《时代周刊》“影响世界的100人”之一英国最著名的历史学家之一在历史、金融、媒体领域负有盛名的跨界学术专家哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员清华大学苏世民学院荣誉研究员罗斯柴尔德家族史研究权威著有《广场与高塔》《基辛格》《文明》《帝国》《金钱关系》《货币崛起》等超级畅销书

Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it, in a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun, with the one and only Mr. Willy Wonka leading the way.

Mr Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying one bit. Especially when the thing he's flying is a glass elevator and it's zooming out of control. But life is never dull with Mr Wonka as he gets them into all kinds of terrible scrapes.

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many...(展开全部)

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned aga...(展开全部)

Babel Tower is the third novel in Byatt's highly acclaimed Frederica quartet. Frederica is embroiled in two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an 'obscene' book. Frederica's personal and legal crises mirror an age; alongside Frederica's intellectual life teaching at art school in London are the diverging...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特（A.S.BYATT）， 英国小说家、诗人、布克奖得主，2008年被《泰晤士报》评为1945年以来英国50位伟大作家之一。 1990年凭借天才之作《占有》获得布 克奖，一举 轰动世界文坛；1990年和1999年，先后被授予大英帝国司令勋章和大英帝国女爵士勋章。 拜厄特以令人叹为观止的博学和绮丽高超的修辞艺术闻名。她的作品主题涉及生物学、达尔文主义、绘画艺术，体裁包含戏剧、诗歌、书信，兼之以丰富的隐喻和超凡的想象力，磅礴壮丽，又洞悉人性之微。 拜厄特的成长四部曲（《花园中的少女》《静物》《巴别塔》《吹口哨的女人》）是她耗时近30年写就的颇负盛名的代表作，以一位英国知识女性弗雷德丽卡的成长史诗，串连起二战后几十年英国的历史变迁。 = 译者简介 = 王一鸣，毕业于澳大利亚蒙纳士大学新闻系，全职记者，主攻文化、艺术。曾专访坂本龙一、伊东丰雄、杉...(展开全部)