The first collection of short stories -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.

The first collection of short stories -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unb...(展开全部)

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unb...(展开全部)

The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouac's life just before the publication of On the Road--as told through his fictional self--Jack Duluoz. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it.

"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California ...(展开全部)

在《達文西密碼》（The Da Vinci Code）還未竄上暢銷榜之前，Dan Brown的舊作一直不能算是熱門書。Angles & Demons可以說是《達文西密碼》的前傳，也是他所有的書中科幻味最重的一本。他的主角也就是出現在《達文西密碼》中的符號學家蘭登，只不過蘭登這次要破的案子，可不是跟名畫有關的，而是瑞典實驗室的一位頂尖的物理學家被謀殺，他的突破性成果——一個能量可與核能相比的物質被偷，抽絲剝繭竟然發現這是一樁與梵蒂崗有關的陰謀……

波丽•邓巴（Polly Dunbar）今日英国人气儿童插画家和作家。16岁就出版了两本著作。后来不断努力，被推选为英国十大插画家之一。这位才女还是Long Nose Puppets剧团的创办人，看剧团的名字就知道，她还喜欢制作木偶。

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.