在线阅读本书 Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a se...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a se...(展开全部)

This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dubl...(展开全部)

This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dubl...(展开全部)

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-c...(展开全部)

“顾德夫手卷”，顾名思义，那是一本十四世纪的彩绘手卷，原本存放在图书馆的特藏室，结果却不翼而飞了。手卷必须存放在有温、湿度控制的特定环境中，否则就会碎裂。一旦手卷碎裂，对学者或偷书贼来说，就都一文不值了。它被某个学生组织取走，并要求学校付赎金。斯宾塞找到了反资会组织的秘书了解情况，于是展开调查……虽然斯宾塞在办案的过程中，不免儿女情长，但他侠肝义胆的硬汉风范，足以使读者折服。 　　罗伯特·布朗·帕克，美国冷硬派推理作家，他的推理小说受钱德勒影响甚深，让一九三○年代的冷硬派小说类型在当代重振声威。他的小说布局结构单纯，场景的描述不多铺陈，对于故事情节则刻画详尽，富于道德批判；书中人物话锋锐利、妙语如珠，更是作者的拿手绝活！小说多以波士顿私家侦探斯宾塞为主角，本书乃作家的成名作！

“顾德夫手卷”，顾名思义，那是一本十四世纪的彩绘手卷，原本存放在图书馆的特藏室，结果却不翼而飞了。手卷必须存放在有温、湿度控制的特定环境中，否则就会碎裂。一旦手卷碎裂，对学者或偷书贼来说，就都一文不值了。它被某个学生组织取走，并要求学校付赎金。斯宾塞找到了反资会组织的秘书了解情况，于是展开调查……虽然斯宾塞在办案的过程中，不免儿女情长，但他侠肝义胆的硬汉风范，足以使读者折服。 　　罗伯特·布朗·帕克，美国冷硬派推理作家，他的推理小说受钱德勒影响甚深，让一九三○年代的冷硬派小说类型在当代重振声威。他的小说布局结构单纯，场景的描述不多铺陈，对于故事情节则刻画详尽，富于道德批判；书中人物话锋锐利、妙语如珠，更是作者的拿手绝活！小说多以波士顿私家侦探斯宾塞为主角，本书乃作家的成名作！

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)