There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and...(展开全部)

【加拿大】史蒂芬•埃里克森 加拿大当代著名奇幻作家，毕业于爱荷华作家工作室，此前曾系统学习过考古学及人类学。《玛拉兹英灵录》是他最为重要的作品，刻画了一个庞大而复杂的世界，人类、不朽者与神祇共存其中，彼此争斗。《月之花园》是系列的第一部。正是这本书，奠定了埃里克森在奇幻小说界的地位。

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre m...(展开全部)

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners,...(展开全部)

The first plant enthusiasts to reach China found a wonderful array of unfamiliar garden plants that had been nurtured by Chinese gardeners for thousands of years. This is the story of the struggles, the daring and the dogged perseverance of those early collectors. Where would we be without magnolias, camellias, chrysanthemums, tree peonies, repeat-flowering roses, viburnums and...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(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。

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)

田纳西•威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911—1983），美国二十世纪最伟大的剧作家之一，与尤金•奥尼尔、阿瑟•米勒并称为美国戏剧三大家，同时也是全世界范围内作品流传最广的美国文学大师之一——主要通过舞台剧演出，尤其是电影。他一生创作了六十余部戏剧、小说和诗歌作品，以心理深度、象征手法和南方哥特风格著称，1948年和1955年分别以《欲望号街车》和《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》两度赢得普利策奖和纽约戏剧评论奖，《玻璃动物园》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分别于1945年和1961年拿下纽约戏剧评论奖，1952年《玫瑰文身》获得托尼奖最佳戏剧奖，1979年荣获肯尼迪中心荣誉奖（终身成就奖）。 田纳西•威廉斯一生饱受抑郁症、酗酒与药物成瘾的困扰，但他将痛苦转化为创作动力，他说：“写作是我能想象的最根本的救赎之道。”他以诗意的语言、深刻的同理心与无畏的真相揭示，...(展开全部)

Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author's award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In "The Price," a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every nigh...(展开全部)