The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". Set in the Highgate-Archway area of...(展开全部)

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his cha...(展开全部)

The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and th...(展开全部)

After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world... a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will no...(展开全部)

A major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love. While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written. It tells the ...(展开全部)

像李黎这样一个旅人，爱文学、爱电影，视人生为不能回头的旅程，最爱读人生这部大书，亦爱观世界各地影像。于是有了这本以旅行与阅读为主线的精选随笔集。 卷一手倦拋书午梦长：是阅读和观影方面的散文。这些散文往往都由一书一事而起，带出如万花筒般的丰盛景象，贯穿其中的是作者深深的文学情意结。幼年爱过的童话、博尔赫斯的图书馆、《红楼梦》中的香气袭人……尽可在她笔下娓娓道来。 卷二众里寻他千百度：是作者多年来不断追寻故事故人的经历。故事故人当然与文学、电影相关。这些追寻有些是为了完成心愿的刻意而为，如刻意寻找法国电影《红气球》的拍摄地，寻找张爱玲旧居乃至重旅三毛曾经的居所等等，有些却是巧合，世界之大，巴黎、威尼斯、旧金山、京都……处处有奇遇。 卷三一朝看尽洛阳花：是作者作为资深旅人，旅游的经历及由此生发的感悟。她乐于与读者分享的不仅仅是风光名胜，更是一些如“威尼斯夜...(展开全部)

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily damaged during the first half of the twentieth century, and much of the work housed there was lost to the international art market...(展开全部)

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the p...(展开全部)

On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished….Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… ...(展开全部)