"ONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES" So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898-1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as "The Black Monk," and he faced (and solved) s...(展开全部)

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” So beg...(展开全部)

唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of ho...(展开全部)

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” So beg...(展开全部)

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the gre...(展开全部)

This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied priority. But sinking a modern and formidably armed battleship was no easy task, es...(展开全部)

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