It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed, and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi protectors including Celine, his wife, their cat, and an actor friend attempt to...(展开全部)

路易-费迪南•塞利纳（Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894－1961），法国天才小说家和医生， 20世纪最有影响的作家之一，代表作有《茫茫黑夜漫游》《死缓》《一座城堡到另一座城堡》《北方》等。他通过运用新的写作手法，使得法国乃至整个世界文学走向现代。 法国当代著名文学评论家菲利普•索莱尔斯认为20世纪法国虽有不少优秀的作家,但真正的大师却只有两位，那就是普鲁斯特和塞利纳，他认为，“塞利纳凭借着自己炉火纯青的技艺留下了许多部杰作，譬如《一座城堡到另一座城堡》和《北方》，在我看来，这两本书超过了《茫茫黑夜漫游》和《死缓》。”。塞利纳对杰克•凯鲁亚克、让-保罗•萨特、雷蒙•格诺、让•热内以及众多当代作家都产生过深刻影响，罗兰•巴特、阿兰•罗伯-格里耶、昆德拉，以及索尔•贝娄、略萨、萨缪尔•贝克特、克洛德•西蒙、让-马里•古斯塔夫•勒克莱齐...(展开全部)

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一瞬にして世界中すべての人間が石と化す、謎の現象に巻き込まれた高校生の大樹。数千年後──。目覚めた大樹とその友・千空はゼロから文明を作ることを決意する!! 空前絶後のSFサバイバル冒険譚、開幕!!

Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased more than 60 huge granite carvings. Given in 1919 to the Philadelphia Museum of...(展开全部)

A Race Against Time Little Willy's Grandfather is sick, and it's up to Willy to save their farm from tax collectors. Their only hope is the prize money from the National Dogsled Race. But a lot of other people want to win the race, too, including Stone Fox, who has never lost a race in his life. Do Willy and his dor Searchlight stand a chance against the toughest racers aroun...(展开全部)

There's just no stopping little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going -- and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live -- the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog, Searchlight, to the plow and harvests the whole potato crop. Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years' back taxes, or the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as ever, he stakes...(展开全部)