Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true -- or her nightmare . . . THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connectioin with the world outside -- and beyond . . . THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a m...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

Here is the story of Anna Blume, a woman who has come to an unnamed city in search of her brother. Her notebook recounts her quest in this cruel modern landscape, and through her anguished narrative, Auster presents a frightening vision of the future.

在线阅读本书 In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face".

萨拉•奥恩•朱厄特（Sarah Orne Jewett，1849—1909），美国19 世纪后期知名女作家，历来被认为是美国乡土文学的代表人物，长期以来一直被忽视，如今被公认为美国大师，她的代表作《尖枞之乡》被誉为是与霍桑的《红字》、马克•吐温的《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》并列的美国小说中最重要、最经得起时间考验的三部小说之一。 译者简介： 路东平，兰州大学外国语学院副教授，文学硕士，硕士研究生导师，兰州大学翻译研究所所长，英国曼彻斯特大学访问学者。已发表学术论文二十余篇，出版编著一部、译著三部，主编教材一部。荣获2017 年兰州大学教学成果一等奖。

Sarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. Her crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnes sstarts to drift...(展开全部)

作者简介： 埃德娜·奥布莱恩（Edna O'Brien，1936—2024） 爱尔兰文学的骄傲与不法之徒。她是最早为爱尔兰不同世代女性的经历发声的作家之一，被誉为“书写爱尔兰生活的索尔仁尼琴”；如今已成为爱尔兰年轻一代作家的文学教母——“她是我们的契诃夫，我们的艾丽丝·门罗，我们的安妮·埃尔诺”；她也曾因书写而获罪，因生活方式而招致非议，一度成为轰动事件的主角和全民公敌，终至逃离故土；她以无惧世俗审判的人生与写作，为后辈女性蹚出一条路：去成为自己吧——去生活，去经历，大声将它们讲述出来。 1960年，她的首部作品《乡下女孩》因大胆讨论女性欲望和情感生活而引发争议，进而被禁。这一主题贯穿她写作生涯的大部分作品。她共创作了20多部作品，包括小说、短篇集、戏剧和回忆录。晚期作品常涉及政治和社会问题。作品包括《异教徒之地》（1970）、《森林里》（2002）...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller! They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old ...(展开全部)