迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学。他在政治、广告和文学领域都取得了出色的成就。 道布斯纵横英国政坛三十余年，曾任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，最终于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 作为畅销书作家的道布斯共著有十余部畅销作品。1989年，他讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改编成电视剧，风靡全球。 继《纸牌屋》之后，道布斯又创作了“老牌政敌”系列政治冒险小说，这一书系也迅速成为他文学创作上的又一座里程碑。本系列包含《老牌政敌》《老牌政敌2 国会危机》《老牌政敌3 叛国者》等佳作，一上市就引发热议，并获得众多英国主流媒体的广泛赞誉，频获“五星级好书”荣誉。

The early work of poet, singer, legend - Jim Morrison Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison's persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer "Lizard King" was during The Doors' peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial more than twenty years later. "The Lords and the New Creatures," Morrison's first published volume of poe...(展开全部)

"In this book sparkling with atmosphere, a small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. The brief, vividly expressed text points out his new awareness."--The Horn Book. A Caldecott Honor Book. Full color.

The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as aa major work of arta by "The Wall Street Journal," his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago Worldas Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

Snow is falling. All the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. Slowly they awake. They open their eyes and sniff. They run. And in the middle of the forest they find a bright yellow flower growing in the snow--and they dance and laugh with joy at this first sign of spring.

Snow is falling. All the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. They awake. They open their eyes. They sniff. They run. What will they find? 1950 Caldecott Honor Book

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.