杰夫里•迪弗 一九五〇年出生于芝加哥，十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系，后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后，他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛，曾自己写歌唱歌，进行巡演，也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时， 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起，迪弗成为一名全职作家。 迄今为止，迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言，多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内，他有三部作品被搬上银幕，同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。 迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称，常常在小说的结尾推翻，或者多次...(展开全部)

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She...(展开全部)

Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists. But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there's more to the attacks than ...(展开全部)

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was une...(展开全部)

Book Description Arthur Miller seemed to capture the sometimes tragic plight of the common man with his Death of a Salesman. Bloom suggests the strength of the play is puzzling but beyond dispute, lying more in its presentation on stage than its written form. The play's continued vitality is unquestioned. The title, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, part of Chelsea House ...(展开全部)

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a...(展开全部)

娜歐．馬許（Ngaio Marsh,一八九五－一九八二） 生於紐西蘭，就讀坎特伯里大學藝術學院，學習繪畫多年。曾從事繪畫及劇團工作；並曾至英國與人合夥室內裝潢事業，搭船赴英途中亦為家鄉的報社撰稿。二次大戰爆發前回紐西蘭照顧病危的母親，大戰期間則為紐西蘭的紅十字會運輸部工作。一九四一年起在坎特伯里大學戲劇系指導學生演戲，展開了數十年的長期合作。此後，她就帶領學生在澳大利亞與紐西蘭巡迴演出並寫作推理小說，餘生於紐西蘭與英國度過。她常利用海上航行的機會來觀察海上旅客與構思情節。 娜歐．馬許一共寫了三十二本推理小說，主角皆為蘇格蘭警場警探洛德里克．艾倫，第一本推理小說《A Man Lay Dead》寫於一九三二年（一九三四年出版），開啟了她的推理小說生涯，讓她揚名世界，與桃樂斯．賽兒絲、阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂以及Margery Allingham並稱一九三○年代的...(展开全部)

娜歐．馬許（Ngaio Marsh,一八九五－一九八二） 生於紐西蘭，就讀坎特伯里大學藝術學院，學習繪畫多年。曾從事繪畫及劇團工作；並曾至英國與人合夥室內裝潢事業，搭船赴英途中亦為家鄉的報社撰稿。二次大戰爆發前回紐西蘭照顧病危的母親，大戰期間則為紐西蘭的紅十字會運輸部工作。一九四一年起在坎特伯里大學戲劇系指導學生演戲，展開了數十年的長期合作。此後，她就帶領學生在澳大利亞與紐西蘭巡迴演出並寫作推理小說，餘生於紐西蘭與英國度過。她常利用海上航行的機會來觀察海上旅客與構思情節。 娜歐．馬許一共寫了三十二本推理小說，主角皆為蘇格蘭警場警探洛德里克．艾倫，第一本推理小說《A Man Lay Dead》寫於一九三二年（一九三四年出版），開啟了她的推理小說生涯，讓她揚名世界，與桃樂斯．賽兒絲、阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂以及Margery Allingham並稱一九三○年代的...(展开全部)

Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmark-O,; they have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start. And they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place ...