“It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...” The Christmas Tree Bucket is a modern-day Christmas story with a dark edge. A wordless narrative, Parke’s story is an ironic take on the typical Australian suburban Christmas. He photographs friends and family, and casts them in a twisted tale that merges fact and f...(展开全部)

Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree Came by special delivery. Full and fresh and glistening green-- The biggest tree he'd ever seen. That was the trouble. The tree was so tall, it couldn't stand up straight in his parlor. Mr. Willowby asked his butler to chop off the top of the tree. What happens to the treetop? Where will it be for Christmas? Snuggle up with this story and follo...(展开全部)

第一套全新生活化美语教材，将全新电视连续剧带进您的课堂。介绍典型美国一家三代同堂的生活故事，喜怒哀乐，妙趣横生。

From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, e...(展开全部)

Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book, a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books and removed clues about her personal life concealed within, especially the horrific tragedy that once befell her family. But on her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia learns that her estranged son, ...(展开全部)

First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of ...(展开全部)

This book is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens. It is perhaps best described as Dickens's "other" Christmas story, this is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the gifts and toys that decorate the traditional tree. There is a range of appeal in the story itself, from snug memories of beloved toys to the passing along of eerie stories surrounding various childhood haunts. "I begin to consider, what do we all remember best upon the branches of the Christmas Tree of our own young Christmas days, by which we climbed to real life." "the whole enlivened by small bells, was a mighty marvel and a great delight. "of the laden hopelessness of morning ever dawning; and the oppression of a weight of remorse." "This, in commemoration of the law of love and kindness, mercy and compassion. This, in remembrance of Me!" The story is full of rich and brilliant imagination.