Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and...(展开全部)

梅芙·宾奇（Maeve Binchy）生于都柏林，获都柏林大学历史学位。先在几所女子学校任教，后进入《爱尔兰时报》供职，开始撰写专栏。自1982年她的长篇小说处女作《点燃希望的烛火》出版以来，梅芙·宾奇已经出版了近二十部长篇小说和短篇小说集，每一本都成为英语世界人人争读的畅销书，她遂成为整个英语世界最受追捧的顶级畅销书女王。1999年，作为爱尔兰国宝级畅销书作家的她荣获英国图书奖的终身成就奖。

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness. "The Maine Woods" is classic Thoreau: a personal story of ex...(展开全部)

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems and housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths; and there's St Ann's Well,...(展开全部)

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twe...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）为恐怖小说大师的代表。 斯蒂芬·金1947年9月21日出生于美国缅因州的波特兰一贫困家庭。在州立大学学习英国文学，毕业后因工资菲薄而走上写作道路。70年代中期声名渐起，被《纽约时报》誉为“现代恐怖小说大师”。自80年代至90年代以来，历年的美国畅销书排行榜，他的小说总是名列榜首，久居不下。他是当今世界读者最多的美国小说家。 1979年，在他32岁时，成为全世界作家中首屈一指的亿万富翁。斯蒂芬·金的作品超越于传统的恐怖小说，他不靠具体的意象来获得恐怖效果，而是通过对事件气氛的营造来震慑读者。