阿克塞尔·哈克（Axel Hacke） 1956 年出生于德国布伦瑞克。政治学专业毕业，后进入慕尼黑德国记者学校，1981 年起担任南德日报的记者， 先后因为新闻工作获得德国多项重要的新闻奖。 米夏埃尔·佐瓦（Michael Sowa） 1945 年出生于柏林，毕业于柏林艺术教育学院，目前是自由插画家。

The little flower king wants nothing in the world so much as to fill his kingdom with beautiful flowers. But when every acre has been covered with tulips, he realizes he still isn’t happy—he wants a princess. So he travels the world in search of her, only to return home sad and alone. It isn’t until he visits his garden again that he finds his princess, calling out to him from ...(展开全部)

'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy's voice. But you'd have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.' While the Celtic Tiger rages, and g...(展开全部)

柯薇·巴可维斯，基于1928年7月28日生于捷克共和国的布拉格，而后她在布拉格应用艺术学院（Academy of Applied Arts）的艾弥儿·斐拉（Emil Filla）教授门下求学，专攻自由图像艺术、绘画、概念艺术及书籍，并于1952年毕业。在1961年到2000年间，她举办了近五十场个人画展，并于60年代开始发展物理立体艺术品的绘本，她的大型绘画和平面雕刻在世界各艺术馆和画廊展出，著作更被译成多种文字在各国出版。 50岁时她开始儿童插图创作，她最先画的，是一些格林童话和安徒生童话。后来，她将创作方向转向绘本，将此种媒体加以发挥，使其能与孩子产生互动。她的绘本多次获得各种国际奖项，包括1983年布拉迪斯拉发的金苹果奖（The Golden Apple at Bratislava），1988年巴塞罗纳卡泰罗尼亚插画奖最高奖（The Catal...(展开全部)

Two thousand years ago, the Born Queen defeated the Skasloi lords, freeing humans from the bitter yoke of slavery. But now monstrous creature roam the land--and destinies become inextricably entangled in a drama of power and seduction. The king's woodsman, a rebellious girl, a young priest, a roguish adventurer, and a young man made suddenly into a knight--all face malevolent f...(展开全部)

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Complete Greek Tragedies" have been the preferred choice of millions of readers - for personal libraries, individual study, and classro...(展开全部)

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment w...(展开全部)

Since "The Book of Three" was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonl...(展开全部)

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment w...(展开全部)