In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those...(展开全部)

The introduction gives an overview of Hitchcock's long career, with special attention to the varied influences on his work; themes that run through many of his films, from the 'transference of guilt', to the connection between knowledge and danger; the overlooked importance of his presence within his films, including his famous cameo appearances and characters who represent him...(展开全部)

The introduction gives an overview of Hitchcock's long career, with special attention to the varied influences on his work; themes that run through many of his films, from the 'transference of guilt', to the connection between knowledge and danger; the overlooked importance of his presence within his films, including his famous cameo appearances and characters who represent him...(展开全部)

The classic, Edgar Award-winning biography, published to celebrate the centenary of Hitchcock's birth with a new introduction by the author. This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life an...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛丽·露易丝·凯利（Mary Louise Kelly） 美国国家公共电台（NPR）和英国广播公司（BBC）的记者，喜欢周游世界，曾在哈佛大学和剑桥大学就读。她拥有丰富的时政报道经历，是一个经验老道的情报记者。 《时间的谎言》一上市便以惊险跌宕的情节、出人意料的设定，一鸣惊人，赢得了媒体和读者的热评。美国前中央情报局秘密行动官瓦莱丽·普拉姆也大加赞赏：“这是一本让人心跳加速的佳作”。 译者简介： 姚静，安徽人，硕士研究生，毕业于北京语言大学，研究方向为英美文学，现为中央戏剧学院英语讲师。

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)

An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his...(展开全部)

约翰.温德姆（1903-1969），出生于英国沃克里郡，中学毕业后便开始独立谋生，1925年成为一名职业作家。20世纪30年代，温德姆在美国的杂志上发表了大量小说；第二次世界大战期间，他曾经在英国政府和军队中效力。 战后，温德姆又重返文坛，创作了《三尖树时代》、《海龙醒来》、《蛹》和《被诅咒之树》等多部科幻小说，是最负盛名的灾难题材科幻小说家之一。

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)