To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Th...(展开全部)

introduction by Mona Simpson

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Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Fo...(展开全部)

Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Fo...(展开全部)

introduction by Mona Simpson

[英]戴安娜·阿西尔Diana Athill 英国知名文学编辑、作家，被誉为“20世纪zui杰出的编辑之一”。曾负责出版过玛格丽特·阿特伍德、V.S.奈保尔、简·里斯等作家的作品。曾获2008年科斯塔图书传记奖、2009年美国国家书评人协会自传奖，因其对文学的贡献被授予大英帝国勋章。 著有《暮色将尽》《葬礼过后》等作品。 姚瑶 作家、翻译、独立摄影师。 著有《天冷就回来》《失眠症患者的夜晚》《时光电影院》《郑重其事的每一天》等作品。译有《心是孤独的猎手》《绿山墙的安妮》《zui后一刻的巨变》《无暇他顾》等多部作品。

[英]戴安娜·阿西尔Diana Athill 英国知名文学编辑、作家，被誉为“20世纪zui杰出的编辑之一”。曾负责出版过玛格丽特·阿特伍德、V.S.奈保尔、简·里斯等作家的作品。曾获2008年科斯塔图书传记奖、2009年美国国家书评人协会自传奖，因其对文学的贡献被授予大英帝国勋章。 著有《暮色将尽》《葬礼过后》等作品。 姚瑶 作家、翻译、独立摄影师。 著有《天冷就回来》《失眠症患者的夜晚》《时光电影院》《郑重其事的每一天》等作品。译有《心是孤独的猎手》《绿山墙的安妮》《zui后一刻的巨变》《无暇他顾》等多部作品。

The haunting account of a woman's doomed relationship with an exceptional, charming, destructive man.