贾森·帕金（Jason Pargin，1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年身为律师事务所员工的贾森•帕金在网络上连载处女作恐怖小说《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社挖掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后贾森•帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《未来城市与花哨西装》《本书充满蜘蛛》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。

Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements.An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move.Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes.A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat.Together, they will decide the future of mankind.Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, i...(展开全部)

盖勒特·斯图尔特(Garrett Stewart)是美国当代优秀的文学批评家之一，美国艺术与科学院(American Academyof Arts andSciences)院士。斯图尔特1967年毕业于南加利福尼亚大学，1971年在耶鲁大学获得博士学位，研究领域为英国文学。他的博士论文《狄更斯与想象实验》(Dickensand the JP：Trials ofImagination)经修改，由哈佛大学出版社于1974年出版。斯图尔特曾先后仟教于波士顿大学、加利福尼亚大学圣芭芭拉分校，目前是爱荷华大学英语系的教授。从1993年至今，斯图尔特在爱荷华大学教授小说、电影、文本理论等课程。除本书外，他的学术论著还有《阅读声音：文学与声文本》(ReadingVoices：Literature and the Phonotext)(1990)、《阅读之貌：书、画...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

National Bestseller In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle , Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleepin...(展开全部)

The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly chur...(展开全部)

"Narcissus and Goldmund "is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Na...(展开全部)

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of...(展开全部)

According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amelie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amelie; wor...(展开全部)