考门夫人，原名丽蒂·伯德，1870年3月3日出生在美国伊利诺州一个乐观善良的家庭。1901年，她与丈夫理查·考门一同，在没有基金支持的情况下，开始了在远东地区长达25年的传教工作。足迹遍及韩国、日本和中国，并发起创建了远东传教会。在此期间，考门先生因心脏病而倍受煎熬，他们不得不回到美国，并一直相互支撑，凭借虔诚的信含和巨大的毅力一次次渡过生命难关。《荒漠甘泉》与《黑门山路》记录的便是他们在这个艰难时期的心灵感悟和真实体验。《黑门山路》一经出版，迅速在世界各地得以传诵，继《荒漠甘泉》、《黑门山路》后，考门夫人又陆续出版了7本著作。1960年在一个复活节的星期天，90岁高龄的考门夫人与世长辞。

From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, e...(展开全部)

Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book, a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books and removed clues about her personal life concealed within, especially the horrific tragedy that once befell her family. But on her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia learns that her estranged son, ...(展开全部)

First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of ...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, e...(展开全部)

Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book, a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books and removed clues about her personal life concealed within, especially the horrific tragedy that once befell her family. But on her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia learns that her estranged son, ...(展开全部)

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of t...(展开全部)

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of t...(展开全部)