We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

简介：短篇故事，更新时间不定私聊接稿，什么类型都可

简介：短篇故事，更新时间不定私聊接稿，什么类型都可

威廉·马奇(William March)，原名威廉·爱德华·坎贝尔，1893年生于美国阿拉巴马州的莫比尔市。1916年因第一次世界大战应征入海军，军旅生涯结束时，他获得了优异服务十字勋章、海军十字勋章和法国十字军功章。 战后，马奇为沃特曼船运公司工作，凡18年之久。1933年，他出版了第一部长篇小说《K连》，此书很大程度上基于他的战时经历。他在德国工作时精神崩溃，返回纽约后在接下来的11年内写了五本小说。这些书销量并不特别好，然而，到1946年的时候，马奇积累了足够的信心，辞去工作，专心全职写作。 没过多久，马奇又遭遇了一次更加严重的精神崩溃，在南方的疗养院里休整了六个月。1950年，他迁至新奥尔良居住，过上了比纽约那种纷乱环境要静谧和安宁许多的生活。1954年4月，《坏种》这部公认为他最佳作品的小说出版时，马奇已经病重。1954年5月15日，他死于...(展开全部)

You can’t choose your in-laws. One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a mountain – the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. Even though the murders were as carefully choreographed as a play, he did not expect that three teenagers had caught him in the act. But Zhang Dongsheng seriously underestimated the smarts of those three kids. . . Dark, murky and ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller.He has been told the girl's last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why do the dead need light?Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanc...(展开全部)

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. “Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem...(展开全部)

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. ''Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink -- all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might ...(展开全部)

Now reissued - William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William march's classic ...(展开全部)