From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.

Expanded from an earlier catalogue of the same title, Still Time accompanied a traveling exhibition featuring more than twenty years of Sally Mann's photography. Still Time celebrates an artist whose acute perceptions and imagination embrace not only the photographs of children for which she is renowned, but also earlier landscapes, and the unexpected, compelling forays into...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go t...(展开全部)

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are...(展开全部)

First time in paperback: The definitive history of one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions For more than seven decades, The New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every prose giant of the century first appeared. With all the authority and elegance such a...(展开全部)

This 1946 adaptation of Stephen Leacock¹s timeless tale is set in Mariposa, a fictional town on the shore of magnificent Lake Wissanotti. This story depicts the comedy of day-to-day life in a bustling small town. This dramatization tells of the amazing foreordained attachment of Peter Pupkin, junior teller in the Exchange Bank in Mariposa, and Zena Pepperleigh, old Judge Pepper...(展开全部)

Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Françoise Sagan（1935—2004） 法国天才女作家，一代人的青春同义词。拥有漂亮的外表、敏感的心灵和避重就轻的天赋，喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，结交演艺界、政界的朋友，任由官司缠身。 十八岁时，她凭借小说《你好，忧愁》获得了法国批评家奖。一生中发表了二十部长篇小说、十一部剧作、若干短篇小说及散文，也参与创作电影和歌曲。 六十三岁时，她撰写了自己的悼词：“一九五四年，她以一本薄薄的小说《你好,忧愁》出道，这部小说成为了一桩世界性丑闻。她的一生和她的作品同样愉快而又轻率，她的隐没则成为一个只属于她自己的丑闻。”