埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

柯林·施伯龙（Colin Thubron），1939年出生于英国伦敦，“英国皇家文学学会”会员，著有《在俄罗斯人当中》（Among the Russians）、《长城之后》（Behind the Wall）等旅行文学作品。曾获霍桑顿奖（Hawthornden Prize）、托马斯·库克（Thomas Cook）旅行文学奖，1984年由图书经销协会（Book Marketing Council）提名为当代二十位最佳旅行作家之一。

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, sc...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates behind the present to see how things became as they are, and how peoples came t...(展开全部)

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come....(展开全部)

作者：露丝·克劳斯（1901—1993） 美国著名作家，创作了三十多本童书，作品包括经典的《胡萝卜种子》（由她的丈夫克罗格特·约翰逊绘制插图）以及《一座特别的房子》《洞是用来挖的》（都是由莫里斯·桑达克绘制插图）。“露丝·克劳斯作为一个作家，拥有捕捉孩子自由想象和语言的能力，她的书因此大受欢迎，充满永恒的吸引力。”《童书及创造者》（Children's Books and Their Creators，1995）这样总结。 绘者：莫里斯·桑达克（1928—2012） 作品包括《野兽国》《午夜厨房》《在那遥远的地方》（这三部作品并称为桑达克著名的图画书三部曲）《肯尼的窗户》《萝丝房门上的记号》《果壳图书馆》（包括《鸡汤加米饭》《鳄鱼之家字母书》《约翰尼的数数书》《皮埃尔》）《格里格里砰！》《亲爱的小莉》《杰克和盖伊，我们都在垃圾场》《糊涂的阿尔蒂》以及...(展开全部)

In this long-popular book, subtitled A First Book of First Definitions, the reader will discover, among other things, that dishes are to do and mashed potatoes are to give everyone enough.