Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of "Dawn," this book is thestory of Lilith's only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first "construct"--part man/part alien.

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. ...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. ...(展开全部)

The nightmare continues...Vampire Rites trilogy comprising: Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death and The Vampire Prince. Join Darren Shan's descent into the darkness. VAMPIRE MOUNTAIN Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further towards th...(展开全部)

Synopsis In the early 1800s, Edmund Talbot, a young and rather priggish Englishman, takes passage on a boat heading for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government. In addition to Talbot, many of the eccentric passengers—a sexually predatory sailor, the aging coquette Miss Zenobia Brocklebank, the ship’s tyrannical captain—undergo profound changes in the ...(展开全部)

威廉•戈尔丁（William Golding，1911—1993） 英国作家、诗人，一九八三年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。 戈尔丁的小说富含寓意，广泛地融入了古典文学，神话，基督教文化以及象征主义。其作品主题一般是与黑暗邪恶有关，但他的小说中也表达一种昏暗的乐观主义。他的第一本小说《蝇王》（一九五四年）突出了他一直不停探讨的主题：人类天生的野蛮与文明的理性的斗争。这部小说也奠定了戈尔丁的世界声誉。 一九八〇年，小说《启蒙之旅》获得布克奖；一九八三年，戈尔丁因其作品“具有清晰的现实主义叙述技巧，以及虚构故事的多样性与普遍性，阐述了今日世界人类的状况”，获诺贝尔文学奖；一九八八年，获封爵士；二○○八年，《泰晤士报》在“一九四五年以来最伟大的五十位英国作家”名单中将戈尔丁名列为第三位。

English novelist, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. The choice was unexpected, because the internationally famous novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991) was considered the strongest candidate from the English writers. In many novels Golding has revealed the dark places of human heart, when isolated individuals or small groups are pushed into extreme situations. H...(展开全部)

The first collection of short stories -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.

The first collection of short stories -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.