Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through ...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆•格林（Graham Greene，1904-1991）英国作家、剧作家、文学评论家。一生获得21次诺贝尔文学奖提名（但终未获奖），被誉为诺贝尔文学奖评选史上“最大的输家”。文学界形容其风格为“格林国度”（Greeneland）。他被誉为20世纪最严肃、最悲观、最具宗教意识的作家，可同时又是讲故事的圣手，是20世纪整个西方世界最具明星效应的大师级作家之一。他的作品探讨了当今世界充满矛盾的政治和道德问题，将通俗文学和严肃文学有机地结合在一起，获得了广泛好评。

(Twentieth Century Classics)

克里斯多福•孟是一位在个人及团体教练的领域上有近三十年经验的国际演说家、生命教练和咨商师。他的教学遍及中国、日本、马来西亚、新加坡、美国、加拿大。近三十年来他研究的领域着重于人际关系与亲密关系的动力。 他思维创新，教学内容综合了先进的心理与灵性成长的根本原则与体验，他的工作启发了各行各业以及不同年龄和背景的人。他运用广泛的经验，帮助个体依直觉来引导行动，发现他们自己要找的答案，并体验到活在顺流之中的轻盈，进而达到更好的生活水平。他所创造出的独特的体验性方法，使理论与生活无缝结合。 无以数计的体验过他的工作坊和教练课程的人，都对他的慈悲和幽默倍感欣赏，他的工作更受到了那些被他的真实和知觉性所感动而生命做了转换的人的深深的赞赏和感激。

愛德華．鮑威爾和專橫的姑媽住在家鄉的祖宅。他嫌惡那裡的鄉里鄉氣，覺得連個名字也不好唸的地方不值得他掛齒。他的生活過得極不如意，認為萬惡之源便是他的姑媽美翠，而除掉她便可一勞永逸，永享美滿幸福。 於是他靈機一動，只要姑媽健在，我的遺產就歸她監管，人生就是黑白的。但姑媽若是死了，我的錢就隨便我花，人生就變成繽紛彩色 如果姑媽暴斃了該有多好，呵呵呵…… 所以他開始動了取姑媽老命的腦筋。 第一次，他弄壞姑媽一輛老車的煞車，不料天佑惡人，姑媽死裡逃生。 青年毫不氣餒，再接再勵，手段愈趨精緻，決心更形堅強，最後甚至連老天也不再旁觀，而終於出現了他自己完全意料不到的成果…… 這是一本謬趣橫生的反敘式偵探小說，全書給你冷血當有趣、令人噴飯的黑色幽默！ 小說裡那位滿臉痘痘、心理不平衡、尖酸卻又懦弱、...(展开全部)

In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that reflects on the impact of this book in the years since it was written.

From horse to crocodile to giraffe, no one wants to be the little mouse's friend, until he meets up with a friendly, familiar face--and not a moment too soon! Full color.

Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eye...(展开全部)

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. When she was 26 years old, she finally had her wish and ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions, she braved the dangers of the jungle and survived encounters with leopards and lions in the African bush. More importantly, she got to know an ...(展开全部)