Bob's Home Library
Factory Girls(前六章)
Leslie T. Chang
历史/纪实 [40]: An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girl...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl Roald
童话 [17]: Amazon.com ReviewIn the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat,...
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
科幻/奇幻/玄幻 [10]: The first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skilfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The...
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbot
科幻/奇幻/玄幻 [12]: How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, wh...
For the new intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [2]: This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial ...
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [6]: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
**A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand’s centennial.**
When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Rand’s daringly original literary vision with the see...
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
国外名著 [17]: From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods ge...
