克里斯蒂安娜•布兰德（1907－1988） 推理小说黄金时期的最后一位大师，推理小说史上的传奇女子。1941年，当推理小说全盘出现桎梏之际，她竟陆续推出了两部小说，而数年之后，更以一部《绿色危机》敲开无数读者心扉。1946年，她顺利加入了门槛颇高的英国侦探作家俱乐部，自此益发佳作不断，备受瞩目。1972至1973年间，布兰德以其杰出的成就，荣任英国犯罪作家协会主席。

"A little less conversation, a little more action!"--Elvis The saga of one man's fight against the walking dead as you've never seen it before! The action never lets up as a chainsaw of events pits the comic world's favorite Shaolin Cowboy against a legion of gourmets from the fourth level of hell, intent on turning America's finest youth into an endless shemp buffet. Strap on ...(展开全部)

"A little less conversation, a little more action!"--Elvis The saga of one man's fight against the walking dead as you've never seen it before! The action never lets up as a chainsaw of events pits the comic world's favorite Shaolin Cowboy against a legion of gourmets from the fourth level of hell, intent on turning America's finest youth into an endless shemp buffet. Strap on ...(展开全部)

阿瑟•克拉克（Arthur C. Clarke，1917～2008） 英国科幻作家，后移居斯里兰卡。与海因莱因、阿西莫夫一起被并称为“20世纪三大最伟大科幻小说家”。克拉克的作品以详实精准的科技描述著称，真实可信，毫无虚假之感，并运用其哲学的思考方式，探求人类在宇宙中的位置。 阿瑟•克拉克有军队服役的背景，参加过二战，担任空军雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位，自1950年开始创作科幻作品。在作品中，他探索了人类与人类技术所能达到的极限，他针对太空技术做出的许多预测都一一成为现实，因此也被称为我们时代最伟大的太空预言家。他曾经预言过人体冷冻、大脑记忆备份、全球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端技术，全球卫星的轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 1986年，克拉克被美国科幻与幻想作家协会（SFWA）授予终生成就奖——大师奖（Grand Mas...(展开全部)

阿瑟•克拉克（Arthur C. Clarke，1917～2008） 英国科幻作家，后移居斯里兰卡。与海因莱因、阿西莫夫一起被并称为“20世纪三大最伟大科幻小说家”。克拉克的作品以详实精准的科技描述著称，真实可信，毫无虚假之感，并运用其哲学的思考方式，探求人类在宇宙中的位置。 阿瑟•克拉克有军队服役的背景，参加过二战，担任空军雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位，自1950年开始创作科幻作品。在作品中，他探索了人类与人类技术所能达到的极限，他针对太空技术做出的许多预测都一一成为现实，因此也被称为我们时代最伟大的太空预言家。他曾经预言过人体冷冻、大脑记忆备份、全球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端技术，全球卫星的轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 1986年，克拉克被美国科幻与幻想作家协会（SFWA）授予终生成就奖——大师奖（Grand Mas...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft ...(展开全部)

A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. After Emily St. Aubuert is imprisoned by her evil guardian, Count Montoni, in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines, terror becomes the ...(展开全部)

'Emily's face was stained with blood'. Beautiful young heiress Emily St. Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and brooding Signor Montoni, and she finds herself trapped in the castle Udolpho, threatened by Montoni's terrible g...(展开全部)

'Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 With The Mysteries of Udolpho , Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine's inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, and providing a gripping plot that continues to thrill readers today, The Mysteries of Udolpho is the story of orphan Emily St. Aubert, who finds herself separated fro...(展开全部)