An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time -- from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King -- Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction both to reflect and to...(展开全部)

An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time -- from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King -- Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction both to reflect and to...(展开全部)

A synthesis of approaches to narrative fiction, considering Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism that formulates the ways readers can, should, and do read narrative fiction.

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

Climactic volume of the Dune trilogy in which an alien society achieves ecological salvation.

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication. At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in th...(展开全部)

20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)

20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)