The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. Set in the traditio...(展开全部)

The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. Set in the traditio...(展开全部)

Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates fact from fantasy. Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, The Old Capital fo...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accu...(展开全部)

黄皙暎，1942年出生于中国长春，1949年迁居南朝鲜汉城登浦区。念高中时以短篇小说《立石附近》获“思想界”新人文化奖，并开始步入文坛。1970年以《塔》获得《朝鲜日报》新春文艺奖，从此正式开始创作活动。他著有小说《客地》、《审判之家》、《歌客》，长篇小说《张吉山》、《武器的阴影》等。

黄皙暎，1942年出生于中国长春，1949年迁居南朝鲜汉城登浦区。念高中时以短篇小说《立石附近》获“思想界”新人文化奖，并开始步入文坛。1970年以《塔》获得《朝鲜日报》新春文艺奖，从此正式开始创作活动。他著有小说《客地》、《审判之家》、《歌客》，长篇小说《张吉山》、《武器的阴影》等。

Dawn and Frank wake up one wet morning in the flat above their pub, the Old Spring. Today they have to meet the brewery representative, creepy Tim Green, and track down an error in their books - or face the consequences. Dawn has something else on her mind, too: the anniversary of an old tragedy for which she has always felt responsible. Frank has a problem of his own - a secr...(展开全部)

理查德·弗朗西斯(1945— )，英国作家，巴斯泉大学（Bath Spa University）写作教授、荣誉研究员，作品有小说《黑湖消失》《操剑人》《庞大的侏儒》《低语的画廊》《天鹅之歌》《失物之地》《愿景山》等，文论《先验乌托邦》《富庶之地》等，撰写电视脚本多部。

Technological progress has fundamentally altered how humanity lives. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the Agrarian Age, it was land. Following the Industrial Revolution, capital became scarce. Now, digital technologies have shifted scarcity from capital to attention. Previous shifts have been marked by major crises including wars, famines and pandemics; our curren...(展开全部)