Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei are overjoyed about moving into a historic country house with teir dad - but the girls don't realise what a delightful adventure awaits them there. WHie exploring their sprawling home and th beautiful rural area that surrounds it, Satsuki & Mei meet Granny,a sweet old woman, and her timid grandson Kanta. They also experien...(展开全部)

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)

The discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike. Radium infiltrated American culture, Maria Rentetzi reveals, not only because of its potential to treat cancer but because it was transformed from a scientific obje...(展开全部)

The discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike. Radium infiltrated American culture, Maria Rentetzi reveals, not only because of its potential to treat cancer but because it was transformed from a scientific obje...(展开全部)

'By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.' MACBETH When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence f...(展开全部)

'By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.' MACBETH When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence f...(展开全部)

艾德加‧福伊希特萬格Edgar Feuchtwanger 猶太裔歷史學家，一九二四年出生在德國慕尼黑，目前生活在英國溫徹斯特。 艾德加的父親是著名出版人，伯伯是當年德國最著名的猶太裔作家與歷史學家，一家人與德國大作家托馬斯．曼和劇作家布萊希特等人往來密切。一九二九年至一九三九年，即艾德加五歲到十四歲期間，與父母親住在希特勒家的對面。 貝提勒‧史卡利Bertil Scali 目前為編輯。曾於一九九二至二○○四年間，先後擔任《VSD》週刊及《巴黎競賽》週刊記者。曾出版小說《Un jour comme un autre》（二○○九），並為「星球」頻道導演同名紀錄片《我的鄰居希特勒》（二○一三）。 譯者簡介 粘耿嘉 一九七六年生，台北人，畢業於淡江大學法文系、歐洲研究所。曾於艾克斯－馬賽大學（Aix en Provence）修讀亞洲研究碩士學位。譯有《爺爺每...(展开全部)

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor. Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fre...(展开全部)