The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to us...(展开全部)

At High Table in Oxford college, the pretty, young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching décolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion, and in due course the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare's husband. In a city where 'simply being is far more important...(展开全部)

"All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of "The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lectu...(展开全部)

By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls , a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charm...(展开全部)

羅伯特．舒華茲（Robert Schwartz） 曾經是行銷顧問的羅伯特．舒華茲，在一段對人生茫然的低潮期，接觸到「出生前計畫」的觀點，讓他對自己有了一番全新的認識，甚至有了覺醒的體驗。之後，他花了三年多的時間，找了數十位有興趣知道自己出生前計畫的人一起研究，進而寫出了獲選為年度最佳心靈類書獎的重要作品－－《從未知中解脫》（方智出版），成為「美國2008年最重要的New Age書籍」。《靈魂的出生前計畫》則繼承了這個研究成果，擴大了案例的面向，更深入細緻地分析了「出生前計畫」的療癒意義。 舒華茲曾是美國《生活》《美國新聞與世界報導》等雜誌的自由撰稿人，也有很長一段時間在企業中擔任行銷與公關等工作。他擁有達特茅斯大學的學士學位，以及凱斯西儲大學的企管碩士學位。官網：www.yoursoulsplan.com

塞斯·诺特博姆（1933— ），现代最杰出的小说家之一（语出A. S. 拜亚特），生于荷兰海牙。他是诗人，也是旅行作家和翻译家，作品中的实验风格最让读者印象深刻。多年来，他遍游欧洲，用文字表达他对生活和自我的思考。他获得过各种文学奖项，包括P. C. 胡福特奖、飞马文学奖、康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖、奥地利欧洲文学国家奖。近年来，诺特博姆的名字经常出现在有可能获诺贝尔文学奖的热门名单中。

塞斯·诺特博姆（1933— ），现代最杰出的小说家之一（语出A. S. 拜亚特），生于荷兰海牙。他是诗人，也是旅行作家和翻译家，作品中的实验风格最让读者印象深刻。多年来，他遍游欧洲，用文字表达他对生活和自我的思考。他获得过各种文学奖项，包括P. C. 胡福特奖、飞马文学奖、康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖、奥地利欧洲文学国家奖。近年来，诺特博姆的名字经常出现在有可能获诺贝尔文学奖的热门名单中。

塞斯·诺特博姆（1933— ），现代最杰出的小说家之一（语出A. S. 拜亚特），生于荷兰海牙。他是诗人，也是旅行作家和翻译家，作品中的实验风格最让读者印象深刻。多年来，他遍游欧洲，用文字表达他对生活和自我的思考。他获得过各种文学奖项，包括P. C. 胡福特奖、飞马文学奖、康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖、奥地利欧洲文学国家奖。近年来，诺特博姆的名字经常出现在有可能获诺贝尔文学奖的热门名单中。

A new trilogy of epic adventure from one of the finest writers in modern fantasy C.S. Friedman, acclaimed author of The Coldfire Trilogy, returns to the epic style which has made her one of the most popular fantasy writers in the genre. In this first book of the trilogy, Friedman introduces readers to a world of high fantasy, replete with vampire-like magical powers, erotic int...(展开全部)