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In the beginning, the vast, black universe was contained in an egg. Inside the egg lay Pangu, a mythical figure. When he awoke, he was surrounded by darkness, and couldn't move. By breaking the egg, Pangu creates Heaven and Earth...
宇宙之初,混沌一团,世界是一只巨大的黑蛋,蛋壳里睡着一位神话中的人物——盘古。当他醒来时,发现四周一片黑暗,自己动也不能动。于是盘古把巨蛋劈开,开天辟地......
...Once upon a time, at the center of China, there were two great mountains, Wangwu and Taihang. Travelling was impossible for the people living at the foot of them. One of these families had an old man called Yugong (Mr. Fool) who was determined to mobilise the whole family to move the two mountains bit by bit into the North Sea. Ignoring the ridicule of their neighbour and overcoming the mountain gods, the family dug day and night. Finally, something
...This Library of America volume presents Madeleine L’Engle’s iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, in a newly-prepared authoritative text and, as a special feature,...
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!
Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete novel.
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he
...In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the...