'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander ...(展开全部)

《Cloud Atlas》（《云图》，2004）是大卫.米切尔的第三部小说。这本书由六段故事构成，从1840年一位美国人从悉尼旅行到旧金山的日记、二十世纪三十年代初居住在比利时的年轻作曲家、1975年卷入加利福尼亚灾难的年轻记者、当今伦敦出版回忆录的黑道、1984年韩国发生的故事与一个老人叙述当时在夏威夷的青春自语为终结。 《Cloud Atlas》入围2004年布克奖（Man Booker Prize）。

《Cloud Atlas》（《云图》，2004）是大卫.米切尔的第三部小说。这本书由六段故事构成，从1840年一位美国人从悉尼旅行到旧金山的日记、二十世纪三十年代初居住在比利时的年轻作曲家、1975年卷入加利福尼亚灾难的年轻记者、当今伦敦出版回忆录的黑道、1984年韩国发生的故事与一个老人叙述当时在夏威夷的青春自语为终结。 《Cloud Atlas》入围2004年布克奖（Man Booker Prize）。

'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander ...(展开全部)

克罗齐（Bendetto Croce， 1866—1952）又译柯罗齐。意大利哲学家、历史学家，新黑格尔主义的主要代表之一。1883年在罗马上大学。20世纪20年代形成自己的新黑格尔哲学体系。1903年起主编《评论》杂志。1920—1921年任教育大臣。政治思想上一直是意大利资产阶级自由主义的领袖人物。哲学上深受黑格尔影响，但认为黑格尔的唯心主义不够彻底。他把精神作为现实的全部内容，认为除精神之外单纯的自然是不存在的，哲学就是关于精神（全部存在着的现实）的科学，即纯粹的精神哲学。他的美学思想主要体现在《美学原理》中。

We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, death, love, and war—are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a...(展开全部)

We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments birth, death, love, and war are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a...(展开全部)

We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, death, love, and war—are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a...(展开全部)

We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments birth, death, love, and war are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a...(展开全部)

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan—time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the l...(展开全部)