A literary page-turner about one manas macabre ambition to create lifeaand secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant childrenathree identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte,...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ( Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometow...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍尔斯（1957— ）　美国小说家，曾就读于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系，后获文学硕士学位。他兴趣广泛，博览群书，涉猎考古学、海洋学、历史、社会学、政治学、美学、医学、音乐等领域。 鲍尔斯是在电视和电脑时代出生的第一代人的代言人，被誉为美国文坛在后品钦时代涌现的最重要、最令人钦佩的作家之一。他的小说致力于探索现代科学技术的影响，呈现出鲜明的后现代主义小说的特点，把词汇上的艺术鉴赏力和结构上的大胆结合得令人眼花缭乱。他大都采用多角度平行叙事的表现手法，以对照不同人物的性格，增加故事的悬念和复杂性，并提醒读者：我们从未如此紧密地联系在一起，同时又从未如此孤单。此外，他还注重事实与虚构相结合，并通过不确定性的语言符号系统构建虚拟世界，以揭示现实世界的零散和混乱。鲍尔斯获得过各种奖项二十多次。

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

An international bestseller with more than 300,000 copies sold in 17 countries, The Baby Void is an honest, personal account about emotions of loss and disappointment, laced with warmth and humor. One out of six couples experience problems with infertility, and while there are several medical and practical books on infertility and treatments, first-hand accounts of young women ...(展开全部)

Synopsis On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds j...(展开全部)

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister ...(展开全部)

西蒙·詹姆斯（Simon James ），英国知名图画书作家。大学主修平面设计，做过14 份不同的工作，包括警察、农夫，以及美术老师等。詹姆斯的插画，线条自由轻巧，用色朴拙淡雅。明朗的水彩搭配余味十足的故事，散发出柔美耀眼的光芒。善于将人与人之间或是人与自然环境的互动关系融入儿童故事中。代表作包括《赏鸟人》、 dear greenpeace，以及 leon and bob。而这本《小步走路》内容虽然平实，但意涵丰厚，相信可以激发孩子的自信心与勇气。

William Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886 and educated at Abbotsholme School, Balliol College,Oxford,and Liverpool Univesity.After spending eighteen months with a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said,he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English literature and industrial history. He served in France with the Friend's Ambulance Unit from 1915 to 1919.He subseq...(展开全部)