Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself...(展开全部)

Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds the warm, comfortable, safe home for which she always yearned -- and the ins...(展开全部)

威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron），一九二五年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学，曾在美国海军陆战队服役，被誉为继海明威和福克纳之后最伟大的作家之一。一九五一年，长篇小说处女作《躺在黑暗中》一问世就获得美国文学艺术学会的大奖。一九六七年的《纳特·特那的自白》为其赢得当年的普利策文学奖。一九七八年由著名的兰登书屋出版的《苏菲的选择》成为美国当代小说的经典之作，被誉为“西方小说史上的里程碑作品”，为斯泰隆摘得了当年的美国国家图书奖。其小说惯于将死亡与性，残酷与激情融为一体。另著有《漫长的行程》、《纵火焚屋》、《静静的灰尘》和《看得见的黑暗》等。

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)

Sophie's is hurt when the other children laugh at her painting of her favorite tree--but when she explains her painting everybody understands what she was trying to do.

作者简介：莫莉·卞(Molly Bang) 1943年出生于美国的新泽西州，曾到日本教授英文，也担任过联合国儿童基金会的画家及顾问，亚洲及非洲的一些偏远城市都有她的足迹。遍历世界的丰富经验，培养了她对各地民间故事的喜好，也铸就了她的绘画稍带神秘、悬疑，具有浓厚情绪和民族风情的多元面貌。莫莉·卞 的创作量不算惊人，但作品却屡获殊荣与推介，曾三次荣获美国凯迪克大奖银奖，还获得过包括英国凯特·格林纳威大奖在内的众多国际奖项。 译者简介：黄筱茵 中国台湾师范大学英语研究所文学组博士班肄业，曾任编辑，翻译书籍约160册左右。担任过联合报年度好书评审、信谊幼儿文学奖初选评审等。长期为报章书本撰写图画书导读与小说书评， 译有绘本作品《流星划过天空的夜晚》《糟糕，身上长条纹了》《野马之歌》《勺子》《艾伦可怕的大牙齿》《雪地里的脚印》等。

[美] 凯瑟琳·卡利·贾利兹（Kathryn Calley Galitz） 欧洲艺术学家、作家、讲师。任职于纽约大都会艺术博物馆，负责重要国际展览的策展与艺术教育。

Description Sophie's World is a novel which presents a comprehensive history of western philosophy through the story of a philosophy tutor teaching a philosophy course to a girl named Sophie Amundsen. This book is an excellent primer for people who have never learned philosophy; it also helps people who have forgotten everything they learned about philosophy, and desire to “acq...(展开全部)

Description Sophie's World is a novel which presents a comprehensive history of western philosophy through the story of a philosophy tutor teaching a philosophy course to a girl named Sophie Amundsen. This book is an excellent primer for people who have never learned philosophy; it also helps people who have forgotten everything they learned about philosophy, and desire to “acq...(展开全部)

When Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a “triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey,” and thirty-one-year-old Quentin Tarantino, with just three feature films to his name, became a sensation: the next great American director. Nearly twenty years later, those who proclaimed Pulp Fiction an ins...(展开全部)