Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgements on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences. After 24 years, Joerg - a convicted murderer...(展开全部)

The discovery and publication of The Cottage Book in 1999 brought the name of Sir Edward Grey—Viscount Grey of Fallodon—to the fore again after years of neglect. The longest-serving Foreign Secretary of the 20th century, he was also a naturalist and writer of the first order. First published in 1927, The Charm of Birds was an immediate popular success, but has been unavailable ...(展开全部)

The discovery and publication of The Cottage Book in 1999 brought the name of Sir Edward Grey—Viscount Grey of Fallodon—to the fore again after years of neglect. The longest-serving Foreign Secretary of the 20th century, he was also a naturalist and writer of the first order. First published in 1927, The Charm of Birds was an immediate popular success, but has been unavailable ...(展开全部)

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媒體推薦 美國獨立飲食生活美學雜誌《Kinfolk》第9期，本期主題將聚焦於「週末」，提案美好週末生活。輕鬆悠閒的時光和閒適自在的心態，讓你從忙碌的步調中找回週末、找回生活，也找回自己。 你如何過週末？現代人的生活還有週末嗎？有孩子的人能夠享受週末嗎？本期的《Kinfolk》依舊為讀者們獻上了風格獨具的文章與攝影作品、食譜、手繪插圖，還有創作者以及店家的專訪與介紹。更重要的是，本期內容將大篇幅探討「週末」這個主題，告訴你大家都是如何度過週末，提供運用閒暇時間的美好提案，更將引導你找到工作與玩樂之間最完美的平衡。除此之外，由《Kinfolk》提案的美好生活概念，能教你重拾活力、避免在休假日工作，更找回生命中閒散自適的美妙時光，進入深層的放鬆狀態。滿載所有關於「週末」這個主題的美好發想，絕對不容錯過！

媒體推薦 美國獨立飲食生活美學雜誌《Kinfolk》第9期，本期主題將聚焦於「週末」，提案美好週末生活。輕鬆悠閒的時光和閒適自在的心態，讓你從忙碌的步調中找回週末、找回生活，也找回自己。 你如何過週末？現代人的生活還有週末嗎？有孩子的人能夠享受週末嗎？本期的《Kinfolk》依舊為讀者們獻上了風格獨具的文章與攝影作品、食譜、手繪插圖，還有創作者以及店家的專訪與介紹。更重要的是，本期內容將大篇幅探討「週末」這個主題，告訴你大家都是如何度過週末，提供運用閒暇時間的美好提案，更將引導你找到工作與玩樂之間最完美的平衡。除此之外，由《Kinfolk》提案的美好生活概念，能教你重拾活力、避免在休假日工作，更找回生命中閒散自適的美妙時光，進入深層的放鬆狀態。滿載所有關於「週末」這個主題的美好發想，絕對不容錯過！

Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.) The storie...(展开全部)

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastica...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had th...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)