This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-rang...(展开全部)

作者简介 [美]詹姆斯·F. 英格利希，美国文化理论家、文学社会学和数据驱动人文研究方法的领军人物。他目前是宾夕法尼亚大学教授、普莱斯数字人文研究所创始人和主任，曾担任欧洲文化节顾问委员会委员 (2009一2011)、美国国家图书奖小说类评委会主席（2016）等，主要研究领域为文化社会学与经济学、文学研究学科史，及当代英国小说、电影和电视。他正在撰写的《以数计美》(Beauty by the Numbers)研究了当代文学、艺术领域的评级和排名体系。 译者简介 芮小河 西安外国语大学欧美文学研究中心教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为当代英语文学、文化研究和文艺理论等。 党争胜 西安外国语大学教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为文学翻译理论和翻译批评研究。

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into a short animated film, coming this Christmas. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They...(展开全部)

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)

The first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, revised and with a new foreword and an index by Professor Tolkien. The trilogy recounts the War of the Ring, in which the Third Age of Middle-earth came. This volume opens with the discovery of the Nature of the Ring. "Destined to outlast our time." -- New York Herald Tribune

"It probably arose," he answered, "from the spontaneous combustion of the cotton. The case is rare, but it is far from unknown. Unless the cotton is perfectly dry when it is shipped, its confinement in a damp or ill-ventilated hold will sometimes cause it to ignite; and I have no doubt it is this that has brought about our misfortune."

《纳尼亚传奇》系列作品对后世作家影响深远，包括《哈利波特》系列的作者J·K·罗琳都曾表示自己深受C·S·刘易斯作品的影响。随着《纳尼亚传奇》系列故事改编成电影，全世界更多观众和读者开始认识这部不朽的作品。穿梭在一个又一个的纳尼亚冒险故事中，这绝对是你一生难忘的神奇旅程……