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)

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)

Dead Souls is a 1999 crime novel by Ian Rankin that features Inspector Rebus. The title refers both to Joy Division's song "Dead Souls" and to the 1842 Nikolai Gogol novel Dead Souls; quotes from the latter appear at the beginnings of the two divisions of the book. The novel won the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière upon its publication there in 2004. A call from an ol...(展开全部)

From acclaimed author Han Song comes the final installment in Yang Wei’s journey through a dystopian hospital system, touching down on the red planet, where more than Yang’s nightmare is reborn. The Hospital Ship is no more, and Yang Wei awakens to find himself at the mercy of monstrous doctors and the tumult of his own mind. Not helping matters, of course, is the Mars Hospital...(展开全部)

Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant...(展开全部)

罗恩·拉什（Ron Rash，1953— ）美国当代诗人、小说家，目前担任西卡罗来纳大学阿巴拉契亚文化研究帕里斯杰出教授，在该校英语系讲授诗歌和小说写作。 拉什出生于南卡罗来纳州，在北卡罗来纳州度过童年，毕业于加德纳-韦伯大学和克莱门森大学。一九九四年出版首部短篇小说集《新耶稣呱呱落地之夜》，此后创作不断，截至目前已出版七部长篇小说、六部短篇小说集和四本诗集，获得众多奖项和荣誉。 拉什的文学创作受到评论界高度评价，曾获得过通用电气青年作家奖、舍伍德·安德森奖、阿巴拉契亚年度图书奖，两次获得欧·亨利短篇小说奖，并凭借短篇小说集《化学》和长篇小说《萨琳娜》两度入围美国笔会/福克纳奖决选。