In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberration...(展开全部)

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this ...(展开全部)

闖過死亡關卡後，他可以嗅出遠方朋友的情緒變化；頂尖的音樂博士，腦中長瘤後，竟然錯把太太當帽子。而這卻是真實的人間故事！人的頭腦，猶如一部魔法織布機，不斷地織出各種人生變化。有時候會因為某種原因，將原本可能潛藏一輩子的能力喚醒。本書收錄了24個腦部受傷患者的故事，作者記錄了在醫療過程中，患者許多讓人無法想像的生命變化。透過本書，我們驚奇的發現，腦中蘊藏的神秘金礦，正等待生而為人的我們去發掘！

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威尔基·柯林斯 （William Wilkie Collins，1824—1889） 19世纪英国维多利亚时代最富盛名的作家之一，英国文学史上第一位侦探小说作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，是他第一个将短篇侦探小说引向长篇的创作。他一生创作了 大量长篇小说，代表作有《月亮宝石》《白衣女人》，等等。有评论指出：“创造英国侦探小说并赋予它那些至今保持不变的基本特征的功劳应归于狄更斯和柯林斯。” 译者 潘华凌 男，江西上高人，教授，中国译协专家会员、理事，多年从事翻译研究、翻译教学和翻译实践，已在多家出版社出版文学译作和学术译著近四十部，计近一千万字，主要译作有《全球时代的欧洲》《大卫·科波菲尔》《爱玛》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《人鼠之间》《动物农场》《1984》《消失的地平线》等。

In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Man and Wife was first published in 1870 and was a biting attack on Victorian marriage laws in England. Th...(展开全部)

On a summer's morning between thirty and forty years ago- two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship- bound outward from Gravesend to Bombay.' (Excerpt form Chapter 1)

"Parodic humor here runs riot...irrepressibly zany fun!" -- Kirkus * Caldecott Honor Book * An ABBY Honor Book * Publishers Weekly Top Selling Kids Books of All Time List * ALA Notable Children's Book * New York Times Notable Book of the Year * New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Booklist Childre...(展开全部)

来读一读这些如假包换的"愚蠢"故事吧：《小鸡里肯》（Chicken Licken）、《公主和保龄球》（The Princess and the Bowling Ball）、《真正丑的丑小鸭》（The Really Ugly Duckling）以及《杰克的豆子问题》（Jack's Bean Problem）。 Book Description Looks at some really stupid tales including "Chicken Licken", "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", "The Really Ugly Duckling" and "Jack's Bean Problem".