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乔·昆南（Joe Queenan） 美国记者、评论家，《华尔街日报》《福布斯》《GQ》和《间谍杂志》的专栏作家，文章还常见于《时代周刊》《新闻周刊》《滚石》《花花公子》《高尔夫文摘》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《新共和》《纽约时报》《卫报》等媒体。他上过“大卫·莱特曼晚 间秀”“早安美国”“今日”和“每日秀”等节目。他的回忆录《闭馆时间》获得各大媒体的赞誉，被《纽约时报》列为2009年度100本值得关注的书之一。书曾支撑他度过毫无乐趣的费城童年，他成了狂热的读者，并立志此生为书辩护。 译者简介 陈丹丹 毕业于东英吉利大学文学，主修文学翻译专业，译过诗歌、戏剧、历史等各种文类。译作另有《遇见星期二》等。

乔·昆南（Joe Queenan） 美国记者、评论家，《华尔街日报》《福布斯》《GQ》和《间谍杂志》的专栏作家，文章还常见于《时代周刊》《新闻周刊》《滚石》《花花公子》《高尔夫文摘》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《新共和》《纽约时报》《卫报》等媒体。他上过“大卫·莱特曼晚 间秀”“早安美国”“今日”和“每日秀”等节目。他的回忆录《闭馆时间》获得各大媒体的赞誉，被《纽约时报》列为2009年度100本值得关注的书之一。书曾支撑他度过毫无乐趣的费城童年，他成了狂热的读者，并立志此生为书辩护。 译者简介 陈丹丹 毕业于东英吉利大学文学，主修文学翻译专业，译过诗歌、戏剧、历史等各种文类。译作另有《遇见星期二》等。

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

Dear Reader, When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field w...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, F...(展开全部)