A fable that will inspire readers to think about their "personal reason for being" and that demonstrates allegorically a powerful way to approach life In a small diner at a location so remote that it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John-a man in a hurry-is at a literal and figurative crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, Jo...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Congo, Amérique et Cigares furent les seuls albums à être redessinés pour l’édition en couleurs. Ces trois aventures méritaient de profonds remaniements pour se retrouver, au milieu des années quarante, au niveau de qualité graphique et narrative atteint par Hergé à ce moment. Tintin au Congo fut toujours de très bonne vente. On se devait de le sortir rapidement en version“coul...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom s heart. Mondays, there were hogs to slop, mules to train, and logs to chop. Slavery was no ways...(展开全部)

On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Stud...(展开全部)

The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices. The digital devices that define our era exist not only because of Silicon Valley innovations, but due to a burgeoning trade in dense, artisanally mined substances like tantalum, tin, and tungsten. As James H. Smi...(展开全部)