Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederström and André Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into our...(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。

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)

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。

Hag-Seed is a re-visiting of Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion, The Tempest, and will be the fourth novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series. The Tempest is set on a remote island full of strange noises and creatures. Here, Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, plots to restore the fortunes of his daughter Miranda by using magic and illusion -- starting with a storm that w...(展开全部)

The 'riotous, insanely readable' (Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS. ‘Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun...'Observer Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost...(展开全部)

William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is li...(展开全部)

塞尔日·布鲁梭罗是一位相当多产的侦探和科幻小说家，他生于1951年，从80年代起便以荒诞诡异的风格奠定了自己在法国文坛的独特地位。他的作品充盈着奔放不羁的想象力，游弋于现实于梦幻之间，成功地营造出波诡云谲、光怪陆离的艺术氛围，由此赢得了广大读者的喜爱，并荣膺多个文学奖项。 布鲁梭罗尤其擅长通过对真实生活的夸张变形，揭示出隐藏在现实背后的荒谬和悲哀。无论在《猎梦人》、《投弹手的一夜》，还是《与亡灵共舞》中，他都将这一风格展现得淋漓尽致。

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)