君主制度的国家似乎还存在公主，但是在这个时代，那种像游戏里亭亭玉立、纯真可爱的公主或者贤惠端庄、娴淑典雅又超凡脱俗的高贵公主真的还有吗？绝对没有，我开始也是这样想，但是，这几乎只有游戏里才会存在的公主，却在某一天突然按我家的门铃，啊哈，这...

君主制度的国家似乎还存在公主，但是在这个时代，那种像游戏里亭亭玉立、纯真可爱的公主或者贤惠端庄、娴淑典雅又超凡脱俗的高贵公主真的还有吗？绝对没有，我开始也是这样想，但是，这几乎只有游戏里才会存在的公主，却在某一天突然按我家的门铃，啊哈，这...

罗伯特·阿尔特（Roberto Arlt，1900—1942)，出身于阿根廷普鲁士移民家庭，成长于城市拥挤的廉租房。16岁离开家后，他当过书店职员、铁匠学徒、油漆工、焊工等，直至于布宜诺斯艾利斯《世界报》任职。作为一位记者，阿尔特描绘了布市丰富而生动的生活；作为一位发明家，他获得了防止女性丝袜滑落的专利。1942年，阿尔特因病去世，有《七个疯子》《喷火器》《愤怒的玩偶》《魔幻之爱》等小说和戏剧作品数部传世。 - 译者简介： 欧阳石晓，成都人，新加坡南洋理工大学工程系毕业，现居西班牙马德里。精通英语、西语，阿拉伯语研习中。译有胡安•加夫列尔•巴斯克斯《名誉》等。

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar (“If there’s one person in my country I feel close to, it’s Roberto Arlt”), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the...(展开全部)

Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal ; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing...(展开全部)

A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity to contemporary writers of science fiction, from the authors of the Holy Scriptures to modern raconteurs of fairy tales, writers and storytellers through the ages have invented imaginary and mythical lands, pro...(展开全部)

安伯托‧艾可（Umberto Eco） 1932-2016，出生於義大利皮德蒙的亞歷山卓，曾任波隆那大學高等人文科學學院教授與院長。身兼哲學家、歷史學家、文學評論家和美學家等多種身分，更是全球最知名的記號語言學權威。其學術研究範圍廣泛，從聖托瑪斯‧阿奎那到詹姆士‧喬埃斯，個人藏書甚至超過3萬冊，知識極為淵博。 已發表過十餘本重要的學術著作，其中最著名的是美學研究《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》和《無盡的名單》等。 另有著作為《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科擺》、《昨日之島》、《波多里諾》、《羅安娜女王的神秘火焰》、《倒退的年代：跟著大師艾可看世界》、《別想擺脫書》、《艾可談文學》、《艾可說故事》、《帶著鮭魚去旅行》、《誤讀》、《智慧女神的魔法袋》、《康德與鴨嘴獸》、《意外之喜：語言與瘋狂》、《植物的記憶與藏書樂》等雜文、隨筆、評論集和繪本。 譯者：林潔盈 國立台灣大...(展开全部)

Peter wants only milk, Lucy won't settle for anything but homemade lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the household brings a new demand for a special meal. What's a mother to do? " A] highly comic rhyming romp that surprisingly (and nicely) twists into a birthday story."--"School Library Journal"

A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and ...(展开全部)

<div>A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace...(展开全部)