The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjecte...(展开全部)

Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of bein...(展开全部)

厄休拉•勒古恩 ( Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929— 2018) 美国幻想文学大师、文学家，“奇幻小说三巨头”之一，被称为“科幻小说女王”。 厄休拉•勒古恩，一生获奖无数。她共获得6次雨果奖、6次星云奖、21次轨迹奖，还曾获美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖、卡夫卡奖、 号角书奖、纽伯瑞奖、小詹姆斯•提普翠奖等多项重量级奖项，更获得美国科幻奇幻作家协会“大师”称号、《洛杉矶时报》“罗伯特•基尔希终身成就奖”等荣誉。2000年，美国国会图书馆将她列为作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”。2014年，她获得美国文学杰出贡献奖。 西方文学评论家将她列为“美国经典作家”，日本作家村上春树也对她推崇备至。 勒古恩，一个明明是传奇，却不愿被称为“传奇”的作家。她说：“我讨厌被称为‘传奇’，我站在这里，是个有血有肉的人。”

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the co...(展开全部)

First published in England in 1970 by Faber and Faber Limited on copyright page 30/- in U.K. (old price) Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. Long out of print, it was reissued in April 2010. The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are gods—the names and as...(展开全部)

"First Avon Printing, August, 1970"; no number line Printed in the US ISBN derived from partial SBN on spine (380·02362·075) Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. Long out of print, it was reissued in April 2010. The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are g...(展开全部)