Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal ( setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and t...(展开全部)

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel ref...(展开全部)

克里斯多福•孟是一位在个人及团体教练的领域上有近三十年经验的国际演说家、生命教练和咨商师。他的教学遍及中国、日本、马来西亚、新加坡、美国、加拿大。近三十年来他研究的领域着重于人际关系与亲密关系的动力。 他思维创新，教学内容综合了先进的心理与灵性成长的根本原则与体验，他的工作启发了各行各业以及不同年龄和背景的人。他运用广泛的经验，帮助个体依直觉来引导行动，发现他们自己要找的答案，并体验到活在顺流之中的轻盈，进而达到更好的生活水平。他所创造出的独特的体验性方法，使理论与生活无缝结合。 无以数计的体验过他的工作坊和教练课程的人，都对他的慈悲和幽默倍感欣赏，他的工作更受到了那些被他的真实和知觉性所感动而生命做了转换的人的深深的赞赏和感激。

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱，生于一九三六年，阿尔巴尼亚著名作家。作品在全世界传播，以讽刺和批判见长，其中一些出版之后曾一度遭禁。他的《石头城纪事》《错宴》《谁带回了杜伦迪娜》《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》等作品已译成汉语。二〇〇五年，他从加西亚•马尔克斯、君特•格拉斯、索尔•贝娄、纳吉布•马哈福兹、大江健三郎五位诺贝尔文学奖得主中脱颖而出，获得首届布克国际文学奖，并成为诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。 施雪莹，青年译者，南京大学法语系在读博士，从事法语文学研究。

The year: 1377. The place: the Balkan peninsula. Here in Ismail Kadare's novel, The Three-Arched Bridge, an Albanian monk chronicles the events surrounding the construction of a bridge across a great river known as Ujana e Keqe, or "Wicked Waters." If successful in their endeavor, the bridge-builders will challenge a monopoly on water transportation known simply as "Boats and R...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱，生于一九三六年，阿尔巴尼亚著名作家。作品在全世界传播，以讽刺和批判见长，其中一些出版之后曾一度遭禁。他的《石头城纪事》《错宴》《谁带回了杜伦迪娜》《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》等作品已译成汉语。二〇〇五年，他从加西亚•马尔克斯、君特•格拉斯、索尔•贝娄、纳吉布•马哈福兹、大江健三郎五位诺贝尔文学奖得主中脱颖而出，获得首届布克国际文学奖，并成为诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。 施雪莹，青年译者，南京大学法语系在读博士，从事法语文学研究。

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.