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)

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

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。

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。

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 'The Lost' is the story of an odyssey in search of six ...(展开全部)

Moby-Dick is a novel considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century. D. H. Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world,and the greatest book of the sea ever written.Call me Ishmael is one of world literature's most famous opening sentences.

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