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)

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining ...(展开全部)

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)

米莉亚姆·泰维兹 Miriam Toews 加拿大作家。1964年生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭。 她出版了八部小说和一部关于父亲的回忆录，获得过多项文学奖，包括加拿大最高文学奖总督奖、麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖（两次）和罗杰斯作家基金会小说奖等。 2019年，长篇小说《女人们的谈话》出版，入围总督文学奖决选和都柏林国际文学奖以及其他多项美国和加拿大全国性文学奖项。同名电影于2022年底搬上大银幕，荣获2023年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。 卢肖慧|译者 20世纪60年代生于上海，90年代赴美留学，毕业于纽约大学商学院。世纪初年开始从事翻译，译有《漫长的告别》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《解说疾病的人》《别的声音，别的房间》等。现居纽约。

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future...(展开全部)