Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.

For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat wit...(展开全部)

Featuring a new foreword by Dr.Lanier Graham, FORM OF BEAUTY introduces the Western world to India ’s most renowned miniatures painter, B.G. Sharma, and his lifetime collection of Krishna art. Sharma ’s art is famous for its elegance of composition, delicacy of detail, and light-suffused colors. His pieces are wonderfully illuminated by Swami Tripurari ’s poetic narrative on th...(展开全部)

E·B·怀特（1899—1985）是20世纪最伟大的美国随笔作家。作为《纽约客》主要撰稿人，怀特一手奠定了影响深远的“《纽约客》文风”。怀特对尘世上的一切都怀着“面对复杂，保持欢喜”的态度，其人格魅力与文字修养一样山高水长。除了他终生挚爱的随笔，他还为孩子们写了三本书：《精灵鼠小弟》、《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，被誉为“二十世纪读者最多、最受爱戴的童话”。《纽约时报》为怀特逝世发表的讣告中称“如同宪法第一修正案一样，E·B·怀特的原则与风范长存”。

E·B·怀特（1899—1985）是20世纪最伟大的美国随笔作家。作为《纽约客》主要撰稿人，怀特一手奠定了影响深远的“《纽约客》文风”。怀特对尘世上的一切都怀着“面对复杂，保持欢喜”的态度，其人格魅力与文字修养一样山高水长。除了他终生挚爱的随笔，他还为孩子们写了三本书：《精灵鼠小弟》、《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，被誉为“二十世纪读者最多、最受爱戴的童话”。《纽约时报》为怀特逝世发表的讣告中称“如同宪法第一修正案一样，E·B·怀特的原则与风范长存”。

The definitive art jewelry collection! 21st Century Jewelry features a decade's worth of memorable pieces selected fromthe prestigious and best-selling500 Series, all gathered in one beautiful edition. Juried by an international roster of jewelers, curators, and gallery owners, eachdesign captures the power of jewelry at the start of a new century. This beautiful gallery boo...(展开全部)

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, natu...(展开全部)

The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds itself caught in a web of alliances and dangerous warmongering. To help tip the balance in their favour Britain aims to draw Russia in...(展开全部)

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, wh...(展开全部)

梅丽莎·斯威特（Melissa Sweet），美国顶级畅销书作家、插画家，创作过80多本绘本，其中包括两本凯迪克银奖作品《正确的单词》和《单词之河：威廉·卡洛斯的故事》，她的作品《多一点红》《卡明》和《铁路》曾登上《纽约时报》畅销榜，《百老汇上空的气球》获得《出版人周刊》年度最佳图画书。她喜欢遛狗、骑行，现居美国缅因州罗克波特市。