埃里希·玛丽亚·雷马克（Erich Maria Remarque，1898—1970） 德裔美籍小说家。1898年生于德国一个工人家庭，18岁时志愿参加第一次世界大战并在前线负伤，战后做过教师、记者、编辑等多种工作。1929年，长篇小说《西线无战事》出版，引起轰动，并迅速被翻译成二十多种语言，使他成为蜚声世界的作家。因为他的反战立场，德国纳粹上台后，将他与托马斯·曼等人的作品公开焚毁。1938年，他被剥夺德国国籍，后流亡美国。1947年，他加入美国国籍，次年返回欧洲并定居瑞士。1970年9月25日，雷马克在瑞士逝世。1991年，雷马克的家乡奥斯纳布吕克设立埃里希·玛丽亚·雷马克和平奖。 雷马克的著作大多带有自传色彩，用词精练，抒情的书写中却透出客观、冷峻的气质，被比作德国的海明威。他一生共著有十五部小说、三个剧本和两部文集，其中《西线无战事》《凯旋门...(展开全部)

A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard? A story about friendship, courage ...(展开全部)

This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the New York Times Book Review called “the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century.” An intense and lyrical work, it chronicles its female protagonist’s journey of self-discovery and self-affirmation. This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the N...(展开全部)

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed . . .” Julian Barnes’s new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” Thi...(展开全部)

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book ...(展开全部)

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, a...(展开全部)

扬•马特尔（Yann Martel） 一九六三年出生于西班牙，父母是加拿大人。幼时曾旅居哥斯达黎加、法国、墨西哥、加拿大，成年后作客伊朗、土耳其及印度。毕业于加拿大特伦特大学哲学系，其后从事过各种稀奇古怪的行业，包括植树工、洗碗工、保安等。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that see...(展开全部)

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book c...(展开全部)