A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there...(展开全部)

大学毕业后周岐山进了一家报社当记者，他采访的案子发生在一个叫清平镇的地方，死者是一名叫刘素彩的女大学生。她被发现因服食大量安眠药死于家中，但家人都不相信刘素彩是自杀的，对她的死耿耿于怀。这让同样经历了女友赵淇自杀身亡的周岐山感到万分痛苦，灰暗的心理阴影纠缠着他，使得他每天都活在悲伤沮丧甚至自责的状态中，他一方面想要知道女友自杀的原因，一方面又极力逃避探究原因。这时女友遗留的一本名为《南方旅店》的小说反复出现在他面前，而这本看似微不足道的小说又和刘素彩的死，和清平镇有着密不可分的联系，随着《南方旅店》的不断发展，刘素彩的死因也慢慢浮出水面…… 编辑推荐： 生长于广东潮汕地区的林培源，在创作的过程中总是会把潮汕人文气息的“底色”很自然地溶解于他的小说，从《薄暮》、《锦葵》到《欢喜城》，你会发现这种“底色”已经成为他作品的一部分，难以忽略。但这本《南方旅店...(展开全部)

大学毕业后周岐山进了一家报社当记者，他采访的案子发生在一个叫清平镇的地方，死者是一名叫刘素彩的女大学生。她被发现因服食大量安眠药死于家中，但家人都不相信刘素彩是自杀的，对她的死耿耿于怀。这让同样经历了女友赵淇自杀身亡的周岐山感到万分痛苦，灰暗的心理阴影纠缠着他，使得他每天都活在悲伤沮丧甚至自责的状态中，他一方面想要知道女友自杀的原因，一方面又极力逃避探究原因。这时女友遗留的一本名为《南方旅店》的小说反复出现在他面前，而这本看似微不足道的小说又和刘素彩的死，和清平镇有着密不可分的联系，随着《南方旅店》的不断发展，刘素彩的死因也慢慢浮出水面…… 编辑推荐： 生长于广东潮汕地区的林培源，在创作的过程中总是会把潮汕人文气息的“底色”很自然地溶解于他的小说，从《薄暮》、《锦葵》到《欢喜城》，你会发现这种“底色”已经成为他作品的一部分，难以忽略。但这本《南方旅店...(展开全部)

Japan's most famous photographer, and one of photography's most prolific bookmakers, Nobuyoshi Araki is notorious for his erotic photographs of women in bondage. Japanese bondage, which differs from western bondage in its orchestration of knots and binding to arouse specific points upon the body, offers visual as well as erotic rewards that Araki has scrutinized with great zeal...(展开全部)

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual ...(展开全部)

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity. Of...(展开全部)

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merce Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town--burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the ri...(展开全部)

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity. Of...(展开全部)

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merce Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town--burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the ri...(展开全部)

Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and brilliant provocation of an entire nation." First published in 1954 to great controversy, it is only now being recognized as a classic. A tragic portrait of Germany after World War II, Death in Rome completes the trilogy that earned Koeppen praise from G nter Grass in his lifet...(展开全部)