By chance, a number of complete strangers find themselves stranded in Yoshima, a remote mountain village of Japan bounded by waterfalls. Separately, they make their way to the only visible shelter, a windowless building across the river known as the Box of the Evil Eye. The sole occupants of the Box for many years have been a seer, revered by the villagers for her infallible pr...(展开全部)

By chance, a number of complete strangers find themselves stranded in Yoshima, a remote mountain village of Japan bounded by waterfalls. Separately, they make their way to the only visible shelter, a windowless building across the river known as the Box of the Evil Eye. The sole occupants of the Box for many years have been a seer, revered by the villagers for her infallible pr...(展开全部)

Readers know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. In the title story, Evil Eye, a young woman has recently become the fourth wife of a highly demanding man. When his first wife comes to stay with them, she warns the new bride that her husband is insane, and that she must fi...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨（Joyce Carol Oates，1938－）美国当代著名女作家。已三度获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 欧茨是一位多产作家，自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》（By the North Gate）以来，迄今为止已发表《他们》《被诅咒的》等长篇小说四十余部，另著有多部短篇小说、诗歌、戏剧、随笔、文学评论等文集。1970年以长篇小说代表作《他们》（Them）获得美国国家图书奖，《人间乐园》（A Garden of Earthly Delights，1966）等5部小说曾得到图书奖提名奖，《漆黑的水》（Black Water，1992）等3部作品曾获普利策提名奖，《大瀑布》（The Falls，2004）荣获2005年度法国费米纳文学奖。 欧茨是一位把恐怖小说写到极致的作家，她对普通人内心至阴至暗部分的洞悉可与陀思妥耶夫斯基匹敌。 她...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

安德鲁·戴尔班科，美国哥伦比亚大学教授，是美国文学和宗教史研究领域的知名学者，著有多部相关力作，其中《清教徒的苦难》（The Puritan Ordeal，1989）和《梅尔维尔：他的世界和他的创作》（Melville：His Wormand Work，2005）曾获“莱昂内尔·特里林奖”（Lionel Trilling Award）。戴尔班科写有大量文学和文化评论文章，发表在《纽约书评》、《新共和党》等重要报刊上，针对文学、宗教、当代高等教育等问题进行评论。他是美国人文研究中心理事、国际笔会美国中心副主席，1995年起任哥伦比亚大学人文科学首席教授。2001年，当选为美国艺术与科学院院士，并被《时代杂志》评为2001年度“美国最杰出的社会批评家”。2012年被授予“美国国家人文科学奖章”（National Humanities Medal）。

安德鲁·戴尔班科，美国哥伦比亚大学教授，是美国文学和宗教史研究领域的知名学者，著有多部相关力作，其中《清教徒的苦难》（The Puritan Ordeal，1989）和《梅尔维尔：他的世界和他的创作》（Melville：His Wormand Work，2005）曾获“莱昂内尔·特里林奖”（Lionel Trilling Award）。戴尔班科写有大量文学和文化评论文章，发表在《纽约书评》、《新共和党》等重要报刊上，针对文学、宗教、当代高等教育等问题进行评论。他是美国人文研究中心理事、国际笔会美国中心副主席，1995年起任哥伦比亚大学人文科学首席教授。2001年，当选为美国艺术与科学院院士，并被《时代杂志》评为2001年度“美国最杰出的社会批评家”。2012年被授予“美国国家人文科学奖章”（National Humanities Medal）。

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn...(展开全部)

The Broken Eye continues the spectacular Lightbringer series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old enemy and enslaved on a pirate galle...(展开全部)

The Broken Eye continues the spectacular Lightbringer series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old enemy and enslaved on a pirate galle...(展开全部)