The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the late 1960s, he and his wife must rely on ‘Vatican...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Rhythm Method is the curse of young Adam Appleby’s life and the cause of his children’s. While Adam gestates his thesis in the British Museum, his wife worries at home because her period is late and a fourth little bundle of (expensive) joy seems to be on the way, thanks to ‘Vatican Roulette’. Though Adam’s experience is constantly c...(展开全部)

戴维·洛奇（David Lodge，1935- ），一九三五年在伦敦出生，早年就读于伦敦大学，伯明翰大学博士，英国皇家文学院院士，以文学贡献获得布列颠帝国勋章和法国文艺骑士勋章。从一九六○年起，执教于伯明翰大学英语系，一九八七年退职从事创作，兼伯明翰大学现代英国文学荣誉教授。 洛奇已出版十二部长篇小说，包括“卢密奇学院三部曲”《换位》（Changing Places，一九七五年，获霍桑登奖和约克郡邮报小说大奖）、《小世界》（Small World，一九八四年，获布克奖提名）和《好工作》（Nice Work，一九八八年，获星期日快报年度最佳图书奖和布克奖提名）以及《作者，作者》（Author, Author，二○○四年）等，其中以“卢密奇学院三部曲”最为著名。他还著有《小说的艺术》（The Art of Fiction，一九九二年）和《意识与小说》（C...(展开全部)

戴维·洛奇（David Lodge，1935- ），一九三五年在伦敦出生，早年就读于伦敦大学，伯明翰大学博士，英国皇家文学院院士，以文学贡献获得布列颠帝国勋章和法国文艺骑士勋章。从一九六○年起，执教于伯明翰大学英语系，一九八七年退职从事创作，兼伯明翰大学现代英国文学荣誉教授。 洛奇已出版十二部长篇小说，包括“卢密奇学院三部曲”《换位》（Changing Places，一九七五年，获霍桑登奖和约克郡邮报小说大奖）、《小世界》（Small World，一九八四年，获布克奖提名）和《好工作》（Nice Work，一九八八年，获星期日快报年度最佳图书奖和布克奖提名）以及《作者，作者》（Author, Author，二○○四年）等，其中以“卢密奇学院三部曲”最为著名。他还著有《小说的艺术》（The Art of Fiction，一九九二年）和《意识与小说》（C...(展开全部)

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the late 1960s, he and his wife must rely on ‘Vatican...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Rhythm Method is the curse of young Adam Appleby’s life and the cause of his children’s. While Adam gestates his thesis in the British Museum, his wife worries at home because her period is late and a fourth little bundle of (expensive) joy seems to be on the way, thanks to ‘Vatican Roulette’. Though Adam’s experience is constantly c...(展开全部)

If America had a royal family, the Winthrops would wear the crown. The popular, charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with their public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous lives. But in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of accidents. Dana Evans, a beautiful young...(展开全部)

The Winthrops are America's royal family, and its Prince Charming is the sexy, charismatic Gary Winthrop. Now the man on his way to becoming the Senate's brightest new star is found murdered in his home-the latest in a series of incidents that have killed five members of the family in a single year. One of the last people to see Gary Winthrop alive is Washington anchorwoman Dan...(展开全部)

A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiri...(展开全部)

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Canne...(展开全部)