刘易斯·卡罗尔（1832～1898） 英国著名数学家、作家。兴趣广泛，多才多艺，在小说、童话、诗歌、逻辑学等方面，都有很深的造诣。1865年他以《爱丽丝梦游奇境》的发表而轰动文坛，1871年又出版了《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》，两本书都成为世界儿童文学经典之作。 托芙?扬松（1914—2001） 芬兰著名儿童文学作家、画家。其代表作是风靡全球70多年的“姆咪”系列故事，向读者展示了一个充满真诚、善良和美的新奇世界。因其巨大的文学艺术成就，扬松屡获殊荣：1953年获得了尼尔斯·霍格尔森奖，1966年获得国际安徒生奖，1972年获得了瑞典学院奖，1976年获得芬兰荣誉奖章。

Lewis Carroll's magnificent nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark features an unlikely cast of characters drawn from the Jabberwocky in Through the Looking Glass. This irresistible version is illustrated, and has an introduction by, Chris Riddell. This is a luxury edition with both black and white and colour artwork, ribbon marker and metallic blue sprayed edges. It was first ...(展开全部)

"The Hunting of the Snark" relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its magical inhabitants, was commissioned to illustrate a Swedish edition of Lewis C...(展开全部)

Harold Bloom: Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature.

The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature—a companion to The Annotated Alice. "It's a Snark!"…for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the...(展开全部)

马丁•艾米斯（Martin Amis），英国当代著名作家，1949年生于牛津文学世家，著名小说家金斯利•艾米斯之子。马丁•艾米斯素有英国“文坛教父”之称，与伊恩•麦克尤恩（Ian McEwan）、朱利安•巴恩斯（Julian Barnes）并称英国“文坛三巨头”。1974年，艾米斯凭其处女作《雷切尔文件》摘得毛姆文学奖，并被誉为“文学天才”。此后艾米斯借其一系列风格多变的作品步入文坛巅峰：《金钱——绝命书》（1984）入选《时代》杂志“一百部最 佳英语小说”之列；《时间箭——罪行的本质》（1991）和《黄狗》（2003）先后入围布克奖提名。虽然艾米斯屡次无缘该奖项，但却无损他成为“英国最受欢迎的年轻作家”（GRANTA杂志）的头号人物。马丁•艾米斯在创作上深受卡夫卡、纳博科夫、乔伊斯等大师的影响，在写实的手法上融入了意识流、黑色幽默及浓郁的魔幻主义风...(展开全部)

马丁•艾米斯（Martin Amis），英国当代著名作家，1949年生于牛津文学世家，著名小说家金斯利•艾米斯之子。马丁•艾米斯素有英国“文坛教父”之称，与伊恩•麦克尤恩（Ian McEwan）、朱利安•巴恩斯（Julian Barnes）并称英国“文坛三巨头”。1974年，艾米斯凭其处女作《雷切尔文件》摘得毛姆文学奖，并被誉为“文学天才”。此后艾米斯借其一系列风格多变的作品步入文坛巅峰：《金钱——绝命书》（1984）入选《时代》杂志“一百部最 佳英语小说”之列；《时间箭——罪行的本质》（1991）和《黄狗》（2003）先后入围布克奖提名。虽然艾米斯屡次无缘该奖项，但却无损他成为“英国最受欢迎的年轻作家”（GRANTA杂志）的头号人物。马丁•艾米斯在创作上深受卡夫卡、纳博科夫、乔伊斯等大师的影响，在写实的手法上融入了意识流、黑色幽默及浓郁的魔幻主义风...(展开全部)

A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and ...(展开全部)

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it ...(展开全部)

"The Bear," "The Old People," "A Bear Hunt," "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work."