Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife. No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of magical trials held once a decade. The chosen pupil is offered a choice: graduate and join Blackwood’s magical elite, or venture into the...(展开全部)

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about and a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a tour around a shattered post-nuclear war Earth is not something he relishes, especially when he becomes central to an intrigue determining Earth's future.

Before any of his groundbreaking works, there was This Immortal, Roger Zelazny's first published novel-and now ibooks is proud to present it to a new generation of readers... Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of th...(展开全部)

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about and a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a tour around a shattered post-nuclear war Earth is not something he relishes, especially when he becomes central to an intrigue determining Earth's future.

🔵 Notes: Photographic reprint of the April 1973 Ace paperback reprint edition. Library binding (no dustjacket) in a limited press run. Publication month and price from Locus #185 (Feb.29, 1976) LCCN 75-443 on the Garland copyright page 🔵 Plot summary: Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a j...(展开全部)

葛瑞．雷納Gary R. Renard 生於美國麻州，原是職業吉他手。1987年受到感召，開始心靈的追尋。1990年遷至緬因州，經歷了一連串不可思議的覺醒過程。他在兩位上師的指導下，研讀《奇蹟課程》，並受上師之託，詳細紀錄十年間所獲得的啟示，而成《告別娑婆》一書。該書甫問世，旋即轟動新時代群族、宗教靈修團體。目前巡迴美國各州，宣揚奇蹟理念，深受奇蹟學員愛戴。

葛瑞．雷納Gary R. Renard 生於美國麻州，原是職業吉他手。1987年受到感召，開始心靈的追尋。1990年遷至緬因州，經歷了一連串不可思議的覺醒過程。他在兩位上師的指導下，研讀《奇蹟課程》，並受上師之託，詳細紀錄十年間所獲得的啟示，而成《告別娑婆》一書。該書甫問世，旋即轟動新時代群族、宗教靈修團體。目前巡迴美國各州，宣揚奇蹟理念，深受奇蹟學員愛戴。

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)