In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of FrenchElle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his...(展开全部)

We've all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing--a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor...(展开全部)

文字作者，艾诺·桑卡德（Arnold Sundgaard），诗人，剧作家，1909年出生于一个挪威家庭里，卒于2006年。1935年他从美国威斯康辛州立大学获得英语学士学位后，到耶鲁大学戏剧学院进修，学成后曾在哥伦比亚大学，伯明顿大学和德克萨斯州立大学教授戏剧。 Arnold一生创作过很多经典戏剧，多部剧目在百老汇上演，其中《Giants in the Earth》曾获普利策音乐奖。晚年转向儿童图画书的创作，他有位久负盛名的搭档——Eric Carl，两人于1988年共同创作了《小羊和蝴蝶》。 绘画作者，艾瑞·卡尔（Eric Carle），1929年出生于纽约，兼具写作与插画能力的绘本创作作家，投身于儿童文学的创作超过40年，致力于为儿童打造一个自由、充满想象的童话世界，共创作了70余本有趣、美丽、富含想像力的作品，荣获多项世界著名儿童文学奖。艾瑞的...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legenda...(展开全部)

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grap...(展开全部)

【奥】苏莉•梅尼(Sueli Menezes)/文 独立作家、艺术创作者，1968年出生于巴西亚马逊丛林的一个小村庄，童年经历使苏莉•梅尼与出生地紧密结合。她以亚马逊特有的花——王莲（Vitoria Regia）为名，成立了Vitoria Regia协会，专门帮助亚马逊地区那些贫穷困苦的孩子们。苏莉•梅尼现居奥地利维也纳，另有绘本著作《男孩和大鱼》《亮亮想要当月亮》等。 【德】安妮卡•西姆斯(Annika Siems)/图 德国新锐插画师，1984年出生，现居汉堡。秉持“插图不仅仅是一张图片，插图是一种语言交流”的理念进行创作。代表作有《男孩和大鱼》《蓝蝴蝶》等。