劳伦斯·布洛克Lawrence Block 1938年生于美国布法罗，当代欧美硬汉派侦探小说代表作家。他的许多作品以苍凉不安、危机四伏的纽约为背景，被誉为“纽约犯罪风景的吟游诗人”。 布洛克曾多次获得爱伦·坡奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖，并且得到了美国推理作家协会颁发的终身大师奖、英国推理作家协会颁发的钻石匕首奖等推理小说界重要大奖。 布洛克主要的作品有马修·斯卡德系列、雅贼系列、伊凡·谭纳系列、奇普·哈里森系列、杀手凯勒系列等。 曾与香港著名导演王家卫合作编写电影《蓝莓之夜》的剧本。

Set in the great Brazilian port of Manaus during the golden decades of the Rubber Boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is the story of identical twin brothers who battle for the love of their mother. It is also a portrait of a city built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of fli...(展开全部)

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov , the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nig...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.

Scotty's big brother Jonathan tells him about Nangiyala, a land on the other side of the stars, where you go after you die. Because Scotty is little and afraid and he's sick and soon he'll die. "In Nangiyala you have adventures from morning to evening and at night, too. Because it's in Nangiyala that all sagas happen," Jonathan tells Scotty. It sounds so good that Scotty ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

格林兄弟：雅各布•格林(Jacob Grimm，1785—1863)和威廉•格林(Wilhelm Grimm)，德国语言学的奠基人，民间童话和传说的采集者、整理者和研究者。他们搜集和编辑的《德国儿童与家庭童话集》，在全世界享有盛名，通称《格林童话》。这些童话表达了德国人民的心愿、幻想和信仰，反映了德国古老的文化传统和审美观念 。《格林童话》初版为两卷本，分别于1812于1857年出版第一版，之后历经多次删改增补，于1857年格林兄弟生前出了最终的第七版。

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their "Children's and Household Tales" in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades t...(展开全部)