The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentiall...(展开全部)

'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives...(展开全部)

罗伯特·哈德曼，英国作家，对君主制和王室有深入研究，也是英国最有成就的记者之一。他著有畅销书《我们的女王》，也为许多广受好评的电视纪录片（包括ITV《我们的女王》和BBC《女王的城堡》）撰稿，他采访过许多皇室成员，其中包括威尔士亲王、菲利普亲王和剑桥公爵。他还采访过日本天皇和皇后以及丹麦女王。他已婚，有三个孩子，住在伦敦。

罗伯特·哈德曼，英国作家，对君主制和王室有深入研究，也是英国最有成就的记者之一。他著有畅销书《我们的女王》，也为许多广受好评的电视纪录片（包括ITV《我们的女王》和BBC《女王的城堡》）撰稿，他采访过许多皇室成员，其中包括威尔士亲王、菲利普亲王和剑桥公爵。他还采访过日本天皇和皇后以及丹麦女王。他已婚，有三个孩子，住在伦敦。

苏珊娜·麦克尼尔（Suzanne McNeill），设计师、艺术家、专栏作家。她非常喜爱尝试各类艺术形式，并将其运用到禅绕画的实际创作中，她的禅绕画灵感艺术作品被称作“魔力艺术”。苏珊娜所写的关于禅绕画的书都受到了广大读者的欢迎。 辛迪·谢帕德（Cindy Shepard），实验艺术家，她的创作专注于材料的循环利用和混合媒介材质的艺术表现。辛迪的禅绕画作品丰富多样，又各具特色。 李阳琨，设计师、自由译者。在国外留学、工作多年，主要从事文化交流、设计和翻译等工作，热衷公益事业。

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend ...(展开全部)

英国当代名作家阿兰·霍林赫斯特(1954-)，生于英格兰一个中产阶级家庭。自幼喜欢歌剧和建筑艺术。1981年，从牛津大学毕业后来到伦敦；1985年，成为《时代文学增刊》的编辑。1988年以长篇处女作《泳池图书馆》一举成名。第二部长篇，1994年出版的《折叠的星星》进入当年布克奖最后候选名单，并获布莱克纪念奖。这两部小说和分别于1998、2004年出版的《咒语》和《美丽曲线》都是同性恋题材。《美丽曲线》获2004年度布克奖，这是布克奖设立36年来第一次颁发给关于同性恋的小说。 本书讲述牛津大学毕业生尼克，从外向来到伦敦四年的生活经历。他住在伦敦一个保守主义议员的家里，先和牙买加裔公务员利奥相恋并发生了关系，后来又迷上了吸食可卡因上瘾的年轻的黎巴嫩裔百万富翁万尼，成为了他的情人、门客和合作者。在万尼罹患艾滋病、丑闻见诸报端之后，尼克遭遇房东的驱逐。小说...(展开全部)

In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which, she observes, we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a tool to identify and bridge the discrepancy between the world as it is and what it ought to be. Drawing widely from aesthetic and cr...(展开全部)