The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)

An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

One of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists – John Barrow has a proven ability to make complex ideas easily accessible to the reader. Beginning with ancient civilizations, he explores how the zero came into being, its rocky reception in Europe, and the early avoidance and eventual acceptance of the void by Christianity. Investigating the concept of nothing through the w...(展开全部)

One of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists – John Barrow has a proven ability to make complex ideas easily accessible to the reader. Beginning with ancient civilizations, he explores how the zero came into being, its rocky reception in Europe, and the early avoidance and eventual acceptance of the void by Christianity. Investigating the concept of nothing through the w...(展开全部)

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel... Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest.  He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump.  It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedra...(展开全部)