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George Bernard Shaw The Miraculous Revenge-奇迹般的复仇
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as par
Trenton Lee Stewart The Secret Keepers-秘密守卫者
A magical watch.
A string of secrets.
A race against time.
When Reuben discovers an extraordinary antique watch, he soon learns it has a secret power and his life takes an intriguing turn. At first he is thrilled with his new treasure, but as one sec
A string of secrets.
A race against time.
When Reuben discovers an extraordinary antique watch, he soon learns it has a secret power and his life takes an intriguing turn. At first he is thrilled with his new treasure, but as one sec
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages(The Mysterious Benedict Society #4)
The brilliant and beloved gang from the New York Times bestselling series is back!
The Mysterious Benedict Society is a modern classic, drawing comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, named a Time magazine "Best Young Adult Book of All Time,&q
The Mysterious Benedict Society is a modern classic, drawing comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, named a Time magazine "Best Young Adult Book of All Time,&q
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma(The Mysterious Benedict Society #3)
IF YOU FAIL,
ALL IS
LOST.
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout
ALL IS
LOST.
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey(The Mysterious Benedict Society #2)
Children
You must not come
STOP
Dangerous
The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission: to go on a mind-bending international scavenger hunt designed to engage their individual talents. As they search for all the clues and riddles Mr.
You must not come
STOP
Dangerous
The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission: to go on a mind-bending international scavenger hunt designed to engage their individual talents. As they search for all the clues and riddles Mr.
Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society(The Mysterious Benedict Society #1)-神秘的本尼迪克特社会
ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD Looking for special opportunities?
When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear listener, can test your wits right alongside them.) But
When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear listener, can test your wits right alongside them.) But
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict(The Mysterious Benedict Society #0)
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict(The Mysterious Benedict Society #0)《尼古拉斯·本尼迪克特的非凡教育》
简介:Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orphan with an unfortunate nose, but he also has na
简介:Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orphan with an unfortunate nose, but he also has na
Gabriela Mistral Crickets and Frogs-蟋蟀和青蛙
A fable in Spanish and English.
Hermann Hesse Pictor's Metamorphoses-皮克托变形金刚
If it wasn't written in spring of 1922, a full sixteen years before Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, one might have thought that “Pictor's Metamorphosis” was the product of a pleasant acid trip!
Hermann Hesse wrote “Pictor's Metamorphoses&
Hermann Hesse wrote “Pictor's Metamorphoses&
Hermann Hesse Stories of Five Decades-五十年的故事
A collection of 23 short stories written during 1899-1948, 20 here translated for the first time:
The Island Dream (1899)Incipit vita nova (1899)To Frau Gertrud (1899)November Night (1901)The Marble Workd (1904)The Latin Scholar (1906)The Wolf (1907)Walt
The Island Dream (1899)Incipit vita nova (1899)To Frau Gertrud (1899)November Night (1901)The Marble Workd (1904)The Latin Scholar (1906)The Wolf (1907)Walt
Hermann Hesse The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse-赫尔曼·黑塞的童话
To read Hermann Hesse's fairy tales is to enter a fabulous world of dreams and visions, philosophy and passion. This landmark collection contains twenty-two of Hesse's finest stories in this genre, most translated into English here for the first
Hermann Hesse Strange News from Another Star-另一个行星的奇闻轶事
In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen (lit. Fairy Tales). This 1st edition in English has followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an
Naguib Mahfouz Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales-来自另一个世界的声音:古埃及故事
The forces of law and order disturb a district's too-perfect peace at the dawn of Egyptian civilization. A wise and popular pharaoh is betrayed by his own son, and by his dearest friends - then makes a most peculiar decision. A mummy returns to life
Naguib Mahfouz The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales-第七天堂:超自然故事
Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.
Amon
Amon
Naguib Mahfouz The Mummy Awakens-木乃伊觉醒
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
By the Arab world’s foremost novelist, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, famous for The Cairo Trilogy—the masterwork in which Mahfouz sets down life in middle class Cairo during the interwar years. From Mahf
By the Arab world’s foremost novelist, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, famous for The Cairo Trilogy—the masterwork in which Mahfouz sets down life in middle class Cairo during the interwar years. From Mahf
Wole Soyinka Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite-欧里庇得斯的酒会:圣餐仪式
Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central social and religi
Derek Walcott Omeros-奥梅罗斯
A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events—the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslaveme
David Thomson The people of the sea: Celtic tales of the seal-folk-海洋之人:凯尔特人的海豹传说
Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the "selchie," or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy-特洛伊神医
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until
Seamus Heaney Sweeney Astray-斯威尼误入歧途
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translat
Seamus Heaney Beowulf-贝奥武夫
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the or
Karen Tei Yamashita Through the Arc of the Rain Forest-穿过雨林的弧线
This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one&
Karen Tei Yamashita Tropic of Orange-橙色热带
This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news executive, Emi, and a Latino newspaper reporter, Gabriel, who are so focused on chasing stories they almost don't notice that the world is falling apart all
Julie Berry Crime and Carpetbags(Wishes and Wellingtons #2)-犯罪与地毯包
Now that Maeve Merritt has surrendered Mermeros, the djinni she found in a sardine can, she expects her life will be dull as dirt. Mermeros, however, has other plans. Maeve's friend Tommy, the former orphan, has been adopted by Mermeros's newest
Julie Berry Wishes and Wellingtons(Wishes and Wellingtons #1)-祝福与惠灵顿
Maeve Merritt chafes at the rigid rules at her London boarding school for "Upright Young Ladies." When punishment forces her to sort through the trash, she finds a sardine tin that houses a foul-tempered djinni with no intention of submitting to
Julie Berry The Passion of Dolssa-多尔萨的激情
Dolssa is a young gentlewoman with uncanny gifts, on the run from an obsessed friar determined to burn her as a heretic for the passion she refuses to tame.
Botille is a wily and charismatic peasant, a matchmaker running a tavern with her two sisters i
Botille is a wily and charismatic peasant, a matchmaker running a tavern with her two sisters i
Julie Berry Secondhand Charm-二手魅力
In a secluded village, magic sparkles on the edges of the forest. There, a young girl named Evie possesses unusually strong powers as a healer. A gypsy's charms—no more than trinkets when worn by others—are remarkably potent when Evie ties them aroun
Julie Berry The Emperor's Ostrich-皇帝的鸵鸟
A classic madcap romp of a fantasy adventure from the author of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place.
Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a m
Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a m
Julie Berry Amaranth Enchantment-紫红色附魔
When Lucinda Chapdelaine was a small child, her parents left for the royal ball and never returned. Ever since, Lucinda has been stuck in perpetual servitude at her evil aunt's jewelry store. Then, on the very same day, a mysterious visitor and an ev
José Saramago Death at Intervals-间或死亡
In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. Dea
José Saramago Death with Interruptions-中断死亡
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, r
Günter Grass The Flounder-比目鱼
It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Gras
Olga Tokarczuk Primeval and Other Times-原始和其他时代
Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk chronicles the lives of the inhabitants over the cou
Trezza Azzopardi The Tip of My Tongue(New Tales from the Mabinogion #10)-我的舌尖
When her mother dies, little Enid has to go to stay with posh relations, the Erbins, in their mansion, at the mercy of their teenage son Geraint. This Arthurian tale from the Mabinogion is retold by Booker shortlisted author Trezza Azzopardi.
Tishani Doshi Fountainville(New Tales from the Mabinogion #9)-喷泉
Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, assistant to Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, in this retelling of celtic Mabinogion myth by poet and novelist Tishani Doshi. Under their
Cynan Jones Bird, Blood, Snow(New Tales from the Mabinogion #8)-鸟,血,雪
The eighth installment in the New Stories from the Mabinogion series transforms a classic tale into a modern Quixotian romp. The original Peredur tale recounts the adventures of a youth bent on recognition as a knight in King Arthur’s court. In true quest
Lloyd Jones See How They Run(New Tales from the Mabinogion #7)-小鬼甩不掉
Small-minded, malicious academic Dr. Llwyd McNamara has a grant to research the rugby player known as Big M, one of Wales’ biggest heroes. However, as he does research in his office, McNamara quickly discovers a link between rugby star Dylan Manawyddan Jo
Horatio Clare The Prince's Pen(New Tales from the Mabinogion #6)-王子的笔
Drawing from two medieval Welsh manuscripts with roots dating back many centuries earlier, this series of 11 stories sheds light on Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance while providing a new perspective on Great Britain itself. From enchantment and shap
Fflur Dafydd The White Trail(New Tales from the Mabinogion #5)-白色小径
Cilydd's wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon. Cilydd convinces his cousin, Arthur--a private eye who has never solved a single case--to help him with the investigation. So