This is a major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, captivating and award-winning memoir of the year. "Stuart, A Life Backwards", is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander) and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a ca...(展开全部)

亚历山大•马斯特斯（Alexander Masters, 1965— ），英国传记作家，现居英国剑桥，曾在一家流浪汉收容所工作过。《倒带人生》（2005）是其处女作，该书荣获《卫报》“第一书奖”，并被英国广播公司（BBC）制作成电影，由汤姆•哈迪和本尼迪克特•康伯巴奇饰演剧中角色。他的第二部书《我地下室里的天才》（2011）是关于住在他所住公寓地下室里的一位天才数学家西蒙•菲利浦斯•诺顿的生平。

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys pull apart. It gives a graphic account of the effects of a century-long period ...(展开全部)

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George and Snowball the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's an adventurous and heroic little mouse. His daring escapades include racing a toy boat in a Central Park pond, retrieving his mother's ring from a drain, and crawling inside a piano to fix ...(展开全部)

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George and Snowball the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's an adventurous and heroic little mouse. His daring escapades include racing a toy boat in a Central Park pond, retrieving his mother's ring from a drain, and crawling inside a piano to fix ...(展开全部)

《精灵鼠小弟》讲述了：利特尔家的第二个孩子斯图尔特生下来只有两英寸高，模样活脱脱就是一只小老鼠。这位鼠小弟心地善良、聪明伶俐，一家人里头，除了那只名叫“野茉莉”的猫，没有不喜欢它的。斯图尔特最要好的朋友是寄居在他们家的小鸟玛加洛，为了让美丽的玛加洛不受“野茉莉”的欺负，鼠小弟可真是鼓足了勇气，动足了脑筋。然而，春天来了，玛加洛不辞而别，飞回到北方去，这下可让斯图尔特伤透了脑筋。他发誓要把玛加洛找回来，于是开动玩具车就上了路。一路上，险情趣事层出不穷，鼠小弟历尽千辛万苦……鼠小弟最后到底有没有拽到玛加洛呢?你一定猜不着。好莱坞根据本书改编的电影，让倔强而可爱的鼠小弟征服了全世界。 A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big ...(展开全部)

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stagewort...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)