A new trilogy of epic adventure from one of the finest writers in modern fantasy C.S. Friedman, acclaimed author of The Coldfire Trilogy, returns to the epic style which has made her one of the most popular fantasy writers in the genre. In this first book of the trilogy, Friedman introduces readers to a world of high fantasy, replete with vampire-like magical powers, erotic int...(展开全部)

At the end of her bestselling "Coldfire" trilogy, C.S. Friedman challenged readers to imagine what a world would be like if sorcery required the ultimate sacrifice-that of life itself. Now, in "Feast of Souls," she introduces us to a terrifying world in which the cost of magic is just that...in which the fuel for sorcery is the very fire of the human spirit, and those who hunge...(展开全部)

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Essential reading for...(展开全部)

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft...(展开全部)

Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid -- all once as human as he. Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying ...(展开全部)

Midnight at the Well of Souls is the first book in the Well of Souls series by American author Jack L. Chalker, first published as a paperback in 1977. Over a million copies of the original printing were sold, and reprints have continued for decades. It came in #18 in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for best science fiction. ----------------------------------- Entered by a thousand u...(展开全部)

美国著名科幻作家，曾获西海岸图书评论金奖、汉米尔顿-布拉克特纪念奖及坎贝尔奖和雨果奖多次提名。除此之外，他还是著名的科幻活动组织者、评论家和编辑。 乔克的作品大都场面宏大，纵横宇宙，以阐述各种文明的起源、变化和发展见长，显示出奔放不羁的想象力。与之相应，其情节也常常打破一般科幻小说的俗套，别出机杼，却又合情合理。在人物塑造方面，乔克创造了一种极有特点的手法：让笔下人物的身体发生巨大变异，以凸显其性格中的某个侧面。这一创作手法启发和影响了许多科幻、奇幻作家。 本书是乔克最著名的作品，甫一出版，即大获成功。之后，作者以同样的设定为背景，又陆续创作了多部小说，构成一个完整的《灵魂之井》系列。

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner ...(展开全部)

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner ...(展开全部)