世界是荒谬的，那些意识不到荒谬的人让世界变得更加荒谬。然而诚如加缪所言：“意识到这个世界的荒诞并不是我们的终点，它只是一个起点。”就让我们一起到20世纪传世之作《局外人》中去寻找发现终点的线索吧。

An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but ...(展开全部)

世界是荒谬的，那些意识不到荒谬的人让世界变得更加荒谬。然而诚如加缪所言：“意识到这个世界的荒诞并不是我们的终点，它只是一个起点。”就让我们一起到20世纪传世之作《局外人》中去寻找发现终点的线索吧。

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

大卫·艾奇逊（David Acheson） 英国应用数学家，科普作家，2010—2011 年度数学协会主席，他退休前任职于牛津大学，。他的数学科普书1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics（牛津大学出版社，2010）已被翻译成11 种语言，其中中文版书名为《牛津教授的16堂趣味数学课》。