作者简介： 埃德娜·奥布莱恩（Edna O'Brien，1936—2024） 爱尔兰文学的骄傲与不法之徒。她是最早为爱尔兰不同世代女性的经历发声的作家之一，被誉为“书写爱尔兰生活的索尔仁尼琴”；如今已成为爱尔兰年轻一代作家的文学教母——“她是我们的契诃夫，我们的艾丽丝·门罗，我们的安妮·埃尔诺”；她也曾因书写而获罪，因生活方式而招致非议，一度成为轰动事件的主角和全民公敌，终至逃离故土；她以无惧世俗审判的人生与写作，为后辈女性蹚出一条路：去成为自己吧——去生活，去经历，大声将它们讲述出来。 1960年，她的首部作品《乡下女孩》因大胆讨论女性欲望和情感生活而引发争议，进而被禁。这一主题贯穿她写作生涯的大部分作品。她共创作了20多部作品，包括小说、短篇集、戏剧和回忆录。晚期作品常涉及政治和社会问题。作品包括《异教徒之地》（1970）、《森林里》（2002）...(展开全部)

作者简介： 埃德娜·奥布莱恩（Edna O'Brien，1936—2024） 爱尔兰文学的骄傲与不法之徒。她是最早为爱尔兰不同世代女性的经历发声的作家之一，被誉为“书写爱尔兰生活的索尔仁尼琴”；如今已成为爱尔兰年轻一代作家的文学教母——“她是我们的契诃夫，我们的艾丽丝·门罗，我们的安妮·埃尔诺”；她也曾因书写而获罪，因生活方式而招致非议，一度成为轰动事件的主角和全民公敌，终至逃离故土；她以无惧世俗审判的人生与写作，为后辈女性蹚出一条路：去成为自己吧——去生活，去经历，大声将它们讲述出来。 1960年，她的首部作品《乡下女孩》因大胆讨论女性欲望和情感生活而引发争议，进而被禁。这一主题贯穿她写作生涯的大部分作品。她共创作了20多部作品，包括小说、短篇集、戏剧和回忆录。晚期作品常涉及政治和社会问题。作品包括《异教徒之地》（1970）、《森林里》（2002）...(展开全部)

In 1960, Edna O'Brien published The Country Girls , her first novel, which so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien, married with two sons, was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face to face with a life of high drama and...(展开全部)

In 1960, Edna O'Brien published The Country Girls , her first novel, which so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien, married with two sons, was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face to face with a life of high drama and...(展开全部)

Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true -- or her nightmare . . . THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connectioin with the world outside -- and beyond . . . THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a m...(展开全部)

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true Ame...(展开全部)

Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and his team along with the company's guests, Mrs. Paulina Barnett and Thomas Black travel through the North West Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean. At Cape Bathurst, Hobson intends on creating a new trading post for the company, Paulina Barnett is along for the adventure and Thomas Bla...(展开全部)

Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten...(展开全部)

THE OCTOBER COUNTRY is Ray Bradbury's own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. This classic collection of short stories includes: THE EMISSARY: The faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside--and beyond. . . THE SMALL ASSASSIN: A fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true--or her w...(展开全部)

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a sing...(展开全部)