Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature i

The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children's Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022 and the Indie Book Awards 2022. A gorgeously written standalone from the acclaimed author of The...(展开全部)

Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too, in Benji D...(展开全部)

英国知名插画家、动画导演，超级畅销书作家，图书已在30多个国家出版，揽获多项大奖。 代表作：《小熊很忙》《爷爷的天堂岛》《小鲸鱼回来了》等。

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

千明官，1964年生于京畿道龙仁市。2003年，他的短篇小说《弗兰克和我》发表于《文学村》季刊，获得新人作家奖。2004年，长篇小说《鲸》获得第10届文学村小说奖，该奖是韩国本土文学的风向标，以“兼具话题性与文学性” 的作品著称。2007年出版小说集《愉快的女仆玛丽莎》，亦深受好评，被韩国文化艺术委员会评选为优秀文学图书。他横跨小说、戏剧和电影等领域，曾创作电影剧本《枪手》、《北京故事》等。 《鲸》出版之后，不但赢得作家和评论家的赞誉和好评，同时引发广大读者的热爱和追捧，长据韩国畅销书榜，并被翻译成多种文字，千明官随之成为韩国备受瞩目的文坛明星。

千明官，1964年生于京畿道龙仁市。2003年，他的短篇小说《弗兰克和我》发表于《文学村》季刊，获得新人作家奖。2004年，长篇小说《鲸》获得第10届文学村小说奖，该奖是韩国本土文学的风向标，以“兼具话题性与文学性” 的作品著称。2007年出版小说集《愉快的女仆玛丽莎》，亦深受好评，被韩国文化艺术委员会评选为优秀文学图书。他横跨小说、戏剧和电影等领域，曾创作电影剧本《枪手》、《北京故事》等。 《鲸》出版之后，不但赢得作家和评论家的赞誉和好评，同时引发广大读者的热爱和追捧，长据韩国畅销书榜，并被翻译成多种文字，千明官随之成为韩国备受瞩目的文坛明星。

法利•莫厄特（1921—2014），加拿大国宝级作家，坚定的环保主义者，一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。其代表作有：《与狼共度》《鲸之殇》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。其中《鲸之殇》被世界反捕鲸组织奉为经典，后改编成电影 ；而由于他对海洋保护的卓越贡献，海洋守护者协会将一艘负责监控非法捕鱼活动的海洋守护船命名为“法利•莫厄特”号。

The author recounts his dramatic struggle to save a pregnant fin whale trapped in a tidal pond on the southern coast of Newfoundland