Robert Olen Butler served with the US Army in Vietnam as a Vietnamese linguist in 1971. He has published six novels since 1981, the most recent of which is The Deuce. The short stories in this collection have appeared in such places as The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Award. They have also been ant...(展开全部)

Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Moun...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous i...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous i...(展开全部)

A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language -- but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena's home...(展开全部)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederat...(展开全部)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederat...(展开全部)

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, "A Good S...(展开全部)

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, "A Good S...(展开全部)

埃里克·弗兰克·拉塞尔（Eric Frank RUSSELL，1905-1978）是英国早期比较有名的科幻小说家，在上世纪三、四十年代创作了大量的优秀科幻作品，于1955年凭借《阿拉玛果沙》（Allamagoosa）获得了当年雨果奖的最佳短篇。他曾是《Fantasy--The Magazine of Science Fiction》杂志某两期的主打人物（尽管该杂志只坚持了三期，分别为1946年12月号、1947年4月号和1947年8月号）。他是第一位为《惊人科幻小说》杂志作出巨大贡献的英国作家，他的科幻处女作《西部英雄鹈鹕传奇》（The Saga of Pelican West）于1937 年出现在该杂志里。他的小说包括《险障》（Sinister Barrier，1943）、《黄蜂》（Wasp，1957）和《大爆炸》（The Great Explos...(展开全部)