克里斯．范．奥尔斯伯格 1949年生于美国密歇根州,自幼喜欢画画，长大后曾在密歇根大学及罗得岛设计学院学习雕塑，并获得了艺术硕士学位。毕业后，他成立了自己的雕刻工作坊，并开始创作绘画作品。他的画曾在惠特尼美术馆和近代美术馆展出。 奥尔斯伯格被称为美国最有才华的绘本大师之一。他善于用文字引导读者，也善于运用细腻的画面和变幻的光影，营造谜一样的超现实氛围。在他的书中，图像与文字相得益彰，共同烘托出亦真亦幻的气氛，带给读者无尽的遐想。他的作品《魔法师的奇幻花园》《勇敢者的游戏》及本书曾三次获得凯迪克大奖。

A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air. "The full-color pastel drawings are the work of a master: stunning, luminescent, and conveying a sense of the mystical and magical." -- Publishers Weekly

克里斯．范．奥尔斯伯格 1949年生于美国密歇根州,自幼喜欢画画，长大后曾在密歇根大学及罗得岛设计学院学习雕塑，并获得了艺术硕士学位。毕业后，他成立了自己的雕刻工作坊，并开始创作绘画作品。他的画曾在惠特尼美术馆和近代美术馆展出。 奥尔斯伯格被称为美国最有才华的绘本大师之一。他善于用文字引导读者，也善于运用细腻的画面和变幻的光影，营造谜一样的超现实氛围。在他的书中，图像与文字相得益彰，共同烘托出亦真亦幻的气氛，带给读者无尽的遐想。他的作品《魔法师的奇幻花园》《勇敢者的游戏》及本书曾三次获得凯迪克大奖。

Some boxes should never be opened. For the first time, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events – including the highly feared #13: The End – is available in one awful package! We can't keep you from succumbing to this international bestselling phenomenon, but we can hide all thirteen books in a huge, elaborately illustrated, shrink–wrapped box, perfect for filling an emp...(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)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

Alan Lee, the beloved illustrator of many of Houghton Mifflin"s Tolkien editions, and a talented team of other artists, including the renowned Tolkien illustrator John Howe, have spent more than three years creating the sets, props, creatures, and locations that truly bring Tolkien"s Middle-earth to life. Hobbiton, Rivendell, and Minas Tirith are no longer designations on the...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 丹•琼斯，专攻中世纪史的历史学家，曾获多项大奖。他的作品《金雀花王朝：缔造英格兰的武士国王与王后们》为《纽约时报》畅销书。《金雀花王朝》已被改编为四集电视纪录片《不列颠最血腥的王朝：金雀花王朝与大宪章，自由的诞生》。他和妻子及两个女儿生活在伦敦。 【译者简介】 陆大鹏，英德译者，热爱一切long ago和far away的东西。代表译作“地中海史诗三部曲”、《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》《金雀花王朝》《伯罗奔尼撒战争》《伊莎贝拉》《滑铁卢》《恺撒》《奥古斯都》《征服者》《罗曼诺夫皇朝》等。 豆瓣、新浪微博：陆大鹏Hans 微信公号：ldphans

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."