Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where...(展开全部)

The schoolchildren call it the Ice Palace: a frozen waterfall in the Norwegian fjords transformed into a fantastic structure of translucent walls, sparkling towers and secret chambers. It fascinates two young girls, lonely Unn and lively Siss, who strike up an intense friendship. When Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace alone and doesn't return, Siss must try to cope with the...(展开全部)

This hauntingly beautiful novel deals in utmost simplicity of language and narrative with the paramount themes of most great literature: love, death, and the maturing of the individual. Two eleven-year-old girls, Siss and Unn, are separated at the very beginning of their friendship by the death of the latter in a strange, labyrinthine palace of ice.This book was also made into ...(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。

四十年来被尊为女权偶像人物的英国文学老祖母，与伍尔芙并称“双星”。 数次获诺贝尔文学奖和布克奖提名。 1919年生于伊朗，幼年度过了一战后有如毒气弹下的生活。 十五岁因眼疾辍学，改以自修方式遍读文学，后来做过电话接线员、保姆、速记员等。 曾两次结婚并离异，1949年携幼子移居英国，全部家当是皮包中的一部小说草稿。该书不久以《野草在歌唱》为题出版，使莱辛一举成名。 1962年，代表作《金色笔记》推出，作为极易引起争议的鸿篇巨制，成为其摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的最充分理由。

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。

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)

Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by ...(展开全部)