阿兰·德波顿1969年生于瑞士，12岁时全家人移居伦敦。18岁入剑桥大学。他徜徉于文学、艺术、美学、哲学、心理分析之间，上下古今求索，从中邂逅知音，产生共鸣，在跨越千年的著作家那里欣然找到先得我心之感，逐步接近了自己的目标。大学只不过提供他一个读书的氛围；而读书只是帮他找到自己独特的创作模式。所以，他不愿把他的写作归入任何一类：小说、历史、哲学……最多能称之为“随笔”，以个人的声音谈人生的重大题材。 德波顿在各种报刊杂志发表的文章很多，23岁开始出版第一部作品。但他写小说力求打破讲故事和表现情景的传统模式，希望探索的是情景背后的所以然，要弄明白各种人际关系后面的动力是什么。他最喜爱的、能引起共鸣的作家之一是普鲁斯特。他的第四部著作：《拥抱逝水年华》是从文学通向哲学的桥梁，这本书使他名声大噪。由此引出下一部：《哲学的慰籍》。如果说他的小说是寓哲学探索于...(展开全部)

From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off -- a picture book that captures in joyous and powerful images all the magic of an airport.

Arthur Hailey’s blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller, which was made into a hit film, takes readers behind the scenes of an airport and into the cockpit of a passenger jet during a time of crisis As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endanger...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from o...(展开全部)

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with hi...(展开全部)

这是一篇记录在一个又一个日记中的故事，在经过整理，重新书写，才有了现在样子。【阅读指南】文笔有限，请见谅。有存稿，但更新不定时。1v1感情线，不会出现与其他王子互动。时间线以国一为开始，会有严重ooc，主线剧情最多只走到全高大赛结束。不是不会写，是不想写比赛剧情，只会专注写二人感情线。为了剧情需要，私设偏多，以上介意者出门左转。

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?” Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club , Choke , and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality. Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide a...(展开全部)

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?” Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club , Choke , and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality. Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide a...(展开全部)

Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature's most memorable openings: "Monday Me. Tuesday Me. Wednesday Me. Thursday Me." Gombrowicz's Diary grew to become a vast collection of essays, short notes, polemics...(展开全部)