Virgil Hesse has disappeared. All that remains of him is a manuscript for a story: a locked room murder mystery. The Cosmigrove family reunites for the first time in years. The family's patriarch, the infamous Joseph Cosmigrove, is dying. He'd dedicated his life to his art -- and his death will prove to be nothing short of artistic. One morning, the family awakens to find that ...(展开全部)

Virgil Hesse has disappeared. All that remains of him is a manuscript for a story: a locked room murder mystery. The Cosmigrove family reunites for the first time in years. The family's patriarch, the infamous Joseph Cosmigrove, is dying. He'd dedicated his life to his art -- and his death will prove to be nothing short of artistic. One morning, the family awakens to find that ...(展开全部)

This classic breakthrough essay by Andrew Carnegie about the responsibilities of those of wealth to use their wealth for the good of society first appeared in the North American Review in 1898.

Harnack's study of Marcion provides a critical view into the most formative period of early Christianity. Marcion, who created the first New Testament, consisting of a stripped-down version of the Gospel of Luke and 10 letters of Paul, would have made Christianity a religon of love -- rather than a mixture of judgment and grace. Harnack knew why that wouldn't ultimately work (h...(展开全部)

如果时间可以倒流，或则重来你还会做出怎样的选着，若这一切皆是梦，你是否愿意醒来，或停留，或继续，或陌生，一切的一切，你会做出什么选择。

This is the first novel by the author of "Gravity's Rainbow", and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book's characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums and bawds.