"The Most Imaginative Detective Stories of Our Times" So wrote Ellery Queen about The Curious Mr. Tarrant, an extraordinary collection of detective stories by Charles Daly King (1895-1963). The cases solved by Trevis Tarrant, during the early 1930's, assisted by his manservant (who is in actuality a Japanese spy) include locked rooms, headless corpses, a vanishing harp, and ...(展开全部)

《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

This gorgeously illustrated picture book opens to a detailed spread of a gray city. If you look closely, you can spot the tiny figure of a red-headed boy, Liam, walking down the street. THE CURIOUS GARDEN tells the story of how this young boy discovers a door that leads up to abandoned railroad tracks where he finds a forgotten garden. He cares for the plants and helps them flo...(展开全部)

"This is George. He lived in Africa. he was a good little monkey, and always very curious." With these words, H.A. and Margret Rey introduced the world to Curious George, and the world has loved him ever since. The tales of this cheerful and resilent little heror have kept generations of readers enthralled and entertained. This lavish70th Anniversary edition includes an intr...(展开全部)

"This is George. He lived in Africa. He was a good little monkey, and always very curious." With these words, H. A. and Margret Rey introduced the world to Curious George in 1941, and the world has loved him ever since. The tales of this cheerful and resilient little hero have kept generations of readers enthralled and entertained. Now, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversar...(展开全部)

One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical "Songs of Innocence" and their counterpoint "Experience" - which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb and The Tyger", and "The Blossom and The Sick Rose" - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as "The Four Zoa...(展开全部)

The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who ...(展开全部)

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience...(展开全部)