凯沃教授精心研制了一种新物质，并利用它的性能和作家贝福德一起制成了飞行器。他们乘坐飞行器飞向了月球，成为人类首批登月探险者。正当他们陶醉于月球上的奇异风光时，飞行器突然失踪了……为寻找飞行器，他俩历尽艰险，但最终还是被月球人绑架了。后来他们与月球人发生冲突，在被追捕的过程中两人失散，贝福德最后侥幸脱险，可凯沃却不知去向。贝福德只得一个人返回地球，当他回到地球后却意外地接到了凯沃从月球发来的电报…… 虽然作者将整个航行、登月和探月的情景描述得非常详尽，栩栩如生，但其真正的兴趣和重点是在对月球洞穴中陌生的文明的描述上。

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventi...(展开全部)

'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wildlife and plant life, and of his explorations into the magi...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wildlife and plant life, and of his explorations into the magi...(展开全部)

Through a two-year publishing program, we have been privileged to welcome back into print hardcover editions of twenty-one treasures from the Sendak backlist. The program has showcased Sendak's varied and distinctive styles, from the serious to the silly, the dreamlike to the dramatic.In the program's final season, we are happy to reintroduce a book that uses all of those style...(展开全部)

As the sun grows tired and drops behind the drowsy hills, four barefoot children and a black cat dance and play and tell each other stories in their moon drenched garden.

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)