The Very Quiet Cricket 《非常安静的蟋蟀-卡板书》艾瑞 卡尔作品

作者：  Eric

出版社：Penguin 1997年09月

简介：　　A little cricket has lost his song - he rubs his wingstogether and nothing happens. He sets off to find his voice andmeets all kinds of creatures who make all kinds of noises, butstill he can make no sound at all. One day he meets a specialfriend, another cricket and this time, when he rubs his wingstogether, he makes 'the most beautiful sound you have ever heard'.The sound, produced by a hidden chip, reinforces the joyfulconclusion to the cricket's dilemma.

The Wild Ass's Skin

作者：  Honoré

出版社：Penguin 1997年09月

简介：

　　The imaginative breadth and the intellectual depth of The WildAss's Skin make it one of the greatest of Balzac's 'Etudesphilosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece ofshagreen, it expresses the peculiarly Balzacian idea of the humanwill and dramatises with startling urgency the choice betweenruthless self- gratification and asceticism, between vice andvirtue, between dissipation and restraint. The symbolism ispowerful but not overpowering: shrewd psychology, superblychiselled dialogue and the sheer energy of the de*ive passages-- the gambling den, the orgy, the devastating finale--give TheWild Ass's Skin a compelling and forceful realism.