在线阅读本书 DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON is Ernest Hemingway's classic work on the art of bullfighting. It tells of the bullfighters and the bulls, the bravery and cowardice, the pageantry and the history -- enlivened by Hemingway's pungent comments on life and literature. Hemingway developed his own original style of extraordinary clarity, subtlety and power. His work all deals with...(展开全部)

Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America. Then, in 1980, it was published again by Plaza y Janés (Barcelona), and in 2008 it was reissued by Tropo Editores (Zaragoza). This volume is composed of...(展开全部)

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

單車上的城市小旅行 您和孩子曾經用這種方式逛過台北嗎？ 前所未有的單車圖畫書體驗！ 「環保減碳！」──近幾年，這個愛地球的響亮口號在全世界的各個角落蔓延開來；不論都會或鄉村，許多大人領著小孩、呼朋引伴，騎著大大小小的單車，在大馬路、巷弄、河邊、公園、田野、山路……穿梭奔馳，讓風景安安靜靜的滑過身邊，盡情實踐「愛地球」，並享受「樂活」。 如果，感受特別纖細敏銳的童書創作者，也在某個下午騎上了單車，他們筆下的世界又會是什麼模樣呢？ 連獲兩屆「信誼幼兒文學獎圖畫書創作獎」青睞的新銳童書創作者──孫心瑜──繼深受好評的《一日遊》之後，即以細膩的心思、獨特的創意和純熟的技法，將自己在單車上看到、感受到的台北景象和生活氣息，精采呈現在《午後》這本無字圖畫書裡。除了在單車上觀察到的風景，這位愛狗的創作者更以雙線同時進行的說故事手法，觀照在她騎單車出門期間、被留在家...(展开全部)

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)

Jack and Annie travel back in time to a South American rain forest in search of the elusive magician Morgan le Fay.Will they find a new clue to her whereabouts before they are trampled by stampeding killer ants?