In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Gra...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of na...(展开全部)

"CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." --Stephen King"Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro"C...(展开全部)

丹•西蒙斯Dan Simmons（1948 ~ ） 美国才华横溢的小说家，写遍奇幻、科幻、恐怖、推理、惊悚、历史、主流文学。任何类型，只要他一出手，必定叫好又叫座，捧回无数大奖，是名副其实的“跨界大师”。 奇幻小说《迦梨之歌》获得奇幻小说的至高奖项——世界奇幻文学奖。 科幻小说《海伯利安》囊括全球所有科幻重要奖项，与《银河帝国》并称为科幻文学史不可逾越的两座丰碑！ 恐怖小说《魔鬼在你身后》将恐怖小说界超重量级的三大奖项——布拉姆•斯托克奖、英伦奇幻奖和轨迹奖收入囊中，是二十世纪不可不读的恐怖经典。

一个超自然吸血鬼的社会导致其他人的痛苦并和人类头脑斗智。 Carrion Comfort. Dan Simmons. A secret society of psychic vampires feed off others misery and play games with human minds.

丹•西蒙斯Dan Simmons（1948 ~ ） 美国才华横溢的小说家，写遍奇幻、科幻、恐怖、推理、惊悚、历史、主流文学。任何类型，只要他一出手，必定叫好又叫座，捧回无数大奖，是名副其实的“跨界大师”。 奇幻小说《迦梨之歌》获得奇幻小说的至高奖项——世界奇幻文学奖。 科幻小说《海伯利安》囊括全球所有科幻重要奖项，与《银河帝国》并称为科幻文学史不可逾越的两座丰碑！ 恐怖小说《魔鬼在你身后》将恐怖小说界超重量级的三大奖项——布拉姆•斯托克奖、英伦奇幻奖和轨迹奖收入囊中，是二十世纪不可不读的恐怖经典。

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa