All Tico the wingless bird wants is a pair of golden wings to carry him up over the mountaintops. But when Tico's wish is granted, none of his friends will talk to him. What's so wrong with being different? Tico wonders all alone. One day Tico helps a crying man by giving him one of his golden feathers. A black feather appears in its place. Each day he gives a feather away to s...(展开全部)

All Tico the wingless bird wants is a pair of golden wings to carry him up over the mountaintops. But when Tico's wish is granted, none of his friends will talk to him. What's so wrong with being different? Tico wonders all alone. One day Tico helps a crying man by giving him one of his golden feathers. A black feather appears in its place. Each day he gives a feather away to s...(展开全部)

At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of...(展开全部)

Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human d...(展开全部)

四十年来被尊为女权偶像人物的英国文学老祖母，与伍尔芙并称“双星”。 数次获诺贝尔文学奖和布克奖提名。 1919年生于伊朗，幼年度过了一战后有如毒气弹下的生活。 十五岁因眼疾辍学，改以自修方式遍读文学，后来做过电话接线员、保姆、速记员等。 曾两次结婚并离异，1949年携幼子移居英国，全部家当是皮包中的一部小说草稿。该书不久以《野草在歌唱》为题出版，使莱辛一举成名。 1962年，代表作《金色笔记》推出，作为极易引起争议的鸿篇巨制，成为其摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的最充分理由。

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On a cobblestoned street in the ancient city of Bruges, a hotel with a golden basket on its roof admits a trio of weary travelers: a father and two little girls, Celeste and Melisande. The next morning, the sisters awake to the thrill of discovering a new country and meeting new friends, including Jan, the innkeeper's son, and Monsieur Carnewal, the hardworking, warmhearted maî...(展开全部)

路德维格•贝梅尔曼斯 Ludwig Bemelmans 美国著名儿童作家和插画家，纽伯瑞银奖和凯迪克金奖、银奖得主，“玛德琳之父”，曾被《时代周刊》誉为“绘本界的杜菲”（法国著名野兽派画家）。其作品被翻译成多种语言，全球销量超千万册。 他多才多艺，还参与过电影与音乐剧创作，并为《纽约客》等杂志绘制过许多封面和插图。后来还成为一名专职画家。今天，在纽约大都会博物馆和巴黎国家艺术博物馆都能看到他的作品。 他对待创作的态度非常谨慎，他曾说：“我们是在给孩子写作，而不是给白痴。”

On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect of a child; the other is destined for greatness but struggles between a keen min...(展开全部)

A startlingly original first novel by “this generation’s answer to Alice Munro” ( The Vancouver Sun )—a bold reimagining of one of history’s most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great. 342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son...(展开全部)