The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman i...(展开全部)

托马斯·哈代(1840-1928)，英国最杰出的乡土小说家、诗人，著有多部长篇小说、中短篇小说及诗集，作品多以故乡英格兰多切斯特为背景，富有浓厚的地方色彩。他是横跨两个世纪的作家，继承和发扬了维多利亚时代的文学传统，开拓了英国20世纪的文学。其最著名的作品有《德伯家的苔丝》《无名的裘德》《还乡》《卡斯特桥市长》等。

在线阅读本书 Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more th...(展开全部)

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News, " winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, "Accordion Crimes, " a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. "Accordion Crimes" opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accord...(展开全部)

Accordion Crimes traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat screwman. The instrument begins its lon...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

Leith Hathout 一位多才多艺的年轻数学天才，并且是一位解题迷，写这本书时他还是加州的一名中学生。他9岁就开始参加美国全国数学竞赛，获得过多种国家级奖项，并在加州 数学联赛中取得了满分的优异成绩。学习之余，他擅长玩SET®游戏，还是一名国家级花剑运动员。

Leith Hathout 一位多才多艺的年轻数学天才，并且是一位解题迷，写这本书时他还是加州的一名中学生。他9岁就开始参加美国全国数学竞赛，获得过多种国家级奖项，并在加州 数学联赛中取得了满分的优异成绩。学习之余，他擅长玩SET®游戏，还是一名国家级花剑运动员。