作者简介： 康纳·多尔蒂（Conor Dougherty），《纽约时报》驻旧金山的经济和住房记者。他曾在《洛杉矶商业杂志》担任调研员，也曾在纽约为《华尔街日报》报道住房和经济问题。2017 年多尔蒂因 “拥挤与昂贵”系列报道获Deadline Club 专题报道奖。在其二十多年的职业生涯中，住房问题一直是他的核心关切。 译者简介： 相欣奕，市政工程博士，国家注册规划师，西南大学地理科学学院讲师，澎湃新闻“市政厅”栏目撰稿人。主要研究方向为生态环境保护、城市规划与城市问题研究。 张美华，管理学博士，西南大学地理科学学院副教授。主要研究方向为生态经济学、资源环境学。长期为“一览众山小”等志愿者组织担任翻译等志愿者工作。

左拉全名émile Zola。 他7岁时父亲病故，他和母亲在外祖父的接济下生活。在中学求学时已显露文学才华，试写了一些小说、诗歌和喜剧及抒情文章。 1862 年进阿谢特书局当打包工人，不久即以诗作出众被提升为广告部主任。这期间陆续在报刊上发表作品。 左拉从28岁到54岁，勤奋写作了26 年，终于写完了一部巨著《鲁贡玛卡一家人的自然史和社会史》，其中包括20部长篇小说，登场人物达1000 多人。

When she held her in her arms pressed against her breast, she felt that she was trembling. She almost seemed to avoid her usual evening kiss. Looking anxiously in her face, Hubertine read in her eyes the feverish expectation connected with the hoped-for meeting. It was all so evident to her that she promised herself to keep a close watch.

When she held her in her arms pressed against her breast, she felt that she was trembling. She almost seemed to avoid her usual evening kiss. Looking anxiously in her face, Hubertine read in her eyes the feverish expectation connected with the hoped-for meeting. It was all so evident to her that she promised herself to keep a close watch.

A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire, who with the help...(展开全部)

On a cobblestoned street in the ancient city of Bruges, a hotel with a golden basket on its roof admits a trio of weary travelers: a father and two little girls, Celeste and Melisande. The next morning, the sisters awake to the thrill of discovering a new country and meeting new friends, including Jan, the innkeeper's son, and Monsieur Carnewal, the hardworking, warmhearted maî...(展开全部)

路德维格•贝梅尔曼斯 Ludwig Bemelmans 美国著名儿童作家和插画家，纽伯瑞银奖和凯迪克金奖、银奖得主，“玛德琳之父”，曾被《时代周刊》誉为“绘本界的杜菲”（法国著名野兽派画家）。其作品被翻译成多种语言，全球销量超千万册。 他多才多艺，还参与过电影与音乐剧创作，并为《纽约客》等杂志绘制过许多封面和插图。后来还成为一名专职画家。今天，在纽约大都会博物馆和巴黎国家艺术博物馆都能看到他的作品。 他对待创作的态度非常谨慎，他曾说：“我们是在给孩子写作，而不是给白痴。”

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the...(展开全部)

鲁齐乌斯·阿普列尤斯(124?-175?)出生于北非一个官吏家庭，后来入了埃及的伊希斯教门，在罗马作过律师。他的主要作品是《变形记》，又名《金驴记》。这是罗马文学中最完整的一部小说。青年鲁齐乌斯因事赴希腊北部帖萨利地方，这是有名的妖术之邦，他止宿于高利贷者米罗家中，米罗的妻子是个女术士，青年误敷了她的魔药，变成一头驴子，被一群强盗劫去，后来落到奴隶主庄园，又辗转卖给磨坊主和菜农，又为军人劫去，卖给贵族厨奴，最后伊希斯女神把他救了，他恢复了人形，就皈依伊希斯教门。 这部小说以主人公的遭遇为纽带，真实而广泛地描写了罗马帝国外省生活。例如贵族地主纵犬咬死小农三个儿子，强占土地；罗马军官强夺人民财产；富人豢养野兽，举办斗兽会等。小说也叙述了不少由于贪图金钱、遗产，或由于情欲而引起的凶杀。作者利用主人公变驴后的遭遇和感受，刻画了穷人和奴隶受奴役和虐待的处境。主...(展开全部)

Henry James' highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, "The Golden Bowl" is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in "Penguin Classics". Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Pr...(展开全部)