Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feel...(展开全部)

The Greek word melancholia (literally meaning 'black bile') defines our sense of depression and black moods. Yet the little black dress is the epitome of chic and has positive meanings. From ancient and classical times to today black has been used as a symbol, a tool and a metaphor in a plethora of startling and often problematic ways. The Story of Black is an exploration of ou...(展开全部)

Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire in the southwest of England. After studying literature and drama at the University of Roehampton in London, she settled in Galway. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, The Moth, Colony, The Irish Times, The White Review and gorse. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Stor...(展开全部)

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of it...(展开全部)

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Essential reading for...(展开全部)

《我的风格小黑皮书》“这是一堂基础课，它讲述风格的意义、内行的告诫，还有怎么避免成为时尚牺牲品。”尼娜•加西亚首度公开她浸淫时装界多年的感悟，以及时尚界殿堂级人物关于风格的一切秘密，让你可以化繁就简，顺利找到适合自己的着装风格。风格向来与规则无关，与金钱无关，尼娜•加西亚用她敏锐的时尚触觉激发和调动你身上与生俱来的潜力，培养你对时装的品味，帮助你树立对自己着装风格的信心，使追求风格成为一种乐趣。此外，在《我的风格小黑皮书》中，全球著名时尚插画家鲁本•托莱多为《我的风格小黑皮书》绘制了几百幅迷人的插图，使《我的风格小黑皮书》更具魅力。 “别做完美而乏味的女人。” Every time you dress, you assert your identity. With style, you tell the world your story. In th...(展开全部)