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New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price: £28. 00
Publication Date: 30/11/2006
Publisher’s description
Collects Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies(传记)of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.
Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind
Price: £16.00
Publication Date: 11/10/2006
Brief introduction
This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life’s adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This memoir(自传)of one man’s journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision.
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Price:£16.00
Publication Date: 02/09/2006
Brief introduction
On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe -- in her school at the foot of the burning towers -- he returned home, to meditate(反省)on the trauma(创伤), and to work on a comic strip(连环漫画). In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events” by America.
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Price: £14.00
Publication Date: 07/10/2006
Publisher’s description
This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
21. Who is the writer of the book latest published among the four books?
A. Arthur Conan Doyle. B. Daniel Libeskind.
C. Art Spiegelman. D. Anita Shreve.
22. If one would like to know something about cultural details about Victorian society, he
or she may read ______.
A. Light on Snow B. In the Shadow of No Towers
C. Breaking Ground D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
23. Of the four books listed above, there are two referring to tragedies. They are ______.
A. Light on Snow & Breaking Ground
B. In the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground
C. Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers
D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers