This "Norton Critical Edition of Kim" is now available for the first time in the European Union. Recognised as Rudyard Kipling's finest work, "Kim" was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the 1901 first English edition, annotated for undergraduate readers. Background material includes selections from Kipling's autobiography, letters, short storie...(展开全部)

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...(展开全部)

此书系英国诺贝尔文学奖得主吉普林的代表作，最早出版于20世纪初。故事是是俄罗斯与英国在中亚地区的政治冲突为背景而展开的。故事集中描写了1881年“第二次阿富汗战争”结束后，1893年“第三次阿富汗战争”前的比较平静的时间里的故事。故事的最吸引读者之处是作者对人物、文化及印度地区不同宗教的入木三分的刻画。也正是因为这一点，使得作者吉普林荣获诺贝尔文学奖。现在，此小说已成为20世纪“最受读者喜爱的百部小说”中的一部。

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

芭芭拉‧沃克（Barbara G. Walker） 著作豐富，著有《女性神話與祕教事典》、《女性符號與聖物辭典》、《女神的易經》、《懷疑論女性主義者》、《老嫗》、《塔羅的祕密》、《女性儀式》及《女戰士》。 ■繪者簡介 Julia Yellow 居住於紐約的臺灣插畫家。 擅以細膩的筆觸營造溫馨、俏皮、風趣的畫面。今年更參與了「金曲29最佳作詞人」的插畫設計。 ●合作對象：紐約時報、波士頓環球報、華盛頓郵報、科學人雜誌、奧美廣告、美國運通、LG、新光三越、自由時報。 ●獎項與認證：2014年PRINT 雜誌30歲以下20名優越插畫家、紐約插畫協會、洛杉磯插畫協會、美國插畫獎、CMYK雜誌、艾迪獎 ■譯者簡介 葉旻臻 臺灣大學外國語文學系畢業。 曾任職於紀錄片拍攝團隊、外文書店及出版社。 總是渴望更貼近自己欣賞的故事，所以喜歡翻譯。

Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands.