肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903—1983），20世纪杰出的艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人。二十七岁即任牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，三十岁出任英国国家美术馆馆长，并在第二次世界大战期间，主持了战时艺术家计划，保障了艺术收藏品的安全。战争结束后，曾任牛津大学斯莱德教授。进入20世纪50年代，创作了多部艺术类电视纪录片并担当主持人。1969年，随着首部关于艺术的大型彩色电视纪录片《文明》的面世，成为享誉世界的艺术大师。2014年，英国泰特美术馆举办专题展览纪念肯尼斯•克拉克，称誉其为“具有世纪影响力的英国艺术大家”，并感谢他在“将艺术带给大众”事业上做出的杰出贡献。

The island exists...but the mystery has just begun! The 2017 Eisner-nominated series returns! Mikura Amelia, following her clues and research, sets her floatplane down in the Pacific, waiting for the drifting passage of Electric Island. No sooner does it appear than her GPS goes out...so where is she, and the island, headed? The sun-baked maze of streets and buildings that make...(展开全部)

The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyda...(展开全部)

The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyda...(展开全部)

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entang...(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。

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” ( Kirkus Reviews ), here is the enthralling tale of five...(展开全部)

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

There is a little island in the ocean—and this book is about how it is on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night change it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else live on it, and what the kitten who comes to visit finds out about it.

Once there was a little island in the ocean. That little island changes as the seasons come and go. The storm and the day and night change it. So do the lobsters and seals and gulls that stop by. Then one day a kitten visits the little island and learns a secret that every child will enjoy.