Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

在线阅读本书 Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. ...(展开全部)

沃爾特．拉科爾（Walter Laqueur） 美國著名歷史學者與國際政治評論者。拉科爾於華盛頓「戰略與國際問題研究中心國際研究理事會」擔任共同主席，亦是布蘭代斯大學和喬治城大學的教授，並於哈佛大學、芝加哥大學、特拉維夫大學和約翰．霍普金斯大學擔任客座教授。針對國際政治發展，拉科爾已有多本重要著作出版，並於《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》等報章雜誌發表過多篇重要政治評論。其重要著作有《歐洲末日：舊大陸的墓誌銘》、《猶太復國主義史》、《法西斯主義：過去、現在、未來》。 譯者簡介 朱怡康 台大政治學研究所碩士。現為專職譯者、國際特赦組織翻譯志工。譯有《瑜伽之心》（合譯）、《複製、基因與不朽：基因革命的反思》（合譯）、《信仰本能》、《治癒生命的創傷》、《耶穌比宗教大》等書，其它歷史、科普譯作散見於《BBC知識》月刊。

Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from the Queen of Mystery. When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the odd remark she made the day before at her brother's funeral becomes chillingly important: "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it. ... But he was murdered, wasn't he?" Desperate to learn more about both death...(展开全部)

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't itBut he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to u...(展开全部)

As the world races towards catastrophe, a crowd of Mayfair socialites parties its way to oblivion. At its centre is David, who idles away his sober moments researching a futile book until the beautiful Helen decides to save him, shattering his marriage and learning too late the depth of both David's indolence and his wife's undeclared love. But with finances about to crash and ...(展开全部)

The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estran...(展开全部)