6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. "An Unsuitabl...(展开全部)

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two years old, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required ti delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it i...(展开全部)

P.D.詹姆斯 （P.D.James，1920-2014） 英国作家，她在英文世界享有极高的声誉，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”。自其创作以来，获奖无数，其中包括推理小说界的两个最高奖项——“钻石匕首奖”和“大师奖”。她是为数不多的同时拿下两项大奖的作家之一。此外，她也是继柯南•道尔、阿加莎• 克里斯蒂后，被请进“国际犯罪小说名人堂”的第三位作家。 她一生写了20本书，创造了亚当•达格利什和科迪莉亚• 格雷两个著名人物，其中达格利什是与夏洛克• 福尔摩斯齐名的大侦探，科迪莉亚• 格雷是推理小说史上著名的女侦探，并启发了许多作品，《名侦探柯南》女二号灰原哀即取名自这位可爱的格雷小姐（Gray, 意为“灰”）。 P.D.詹姆斯的作品极具文学性，她获得了伦敦大学等八所高校获得荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会主席、艺术委员会文化片区主席、布克文学奖评委主席，其文...(展开全部)

海尔特・弗尔迈伊，一位卓越的海洋生态学家、进化生物学家和古生物学家，在贝类形态研究方面造诣深厚，25岁即获得耶鲁大学博士学位。现为加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校地质系教授，曾获麦克阿 瑟和古根海姆研究基金，为美国科学促进会理事，兼任自然史研究领域的顶级刊物《古生物学》和《进化》杂志的编辑，已出版《贝壳的自然史》、《进化与升级》、《生物地理学与适应》等著作。

海尔特・弗尔迈伊，一位卓越的海洋生态学家、进化生物学家和古生物学家，在贝类形态研究方面造诣深厚，25岁即获得耶鲁大学博士学位。现为加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校地质系教授，曾获麦克阿 瑟和古根海姆研究基金，为美国科学促进会理事，兼任自然史研究领域的顶级刊物《古生物学》和《进化》杂志的编辑，已出版《贝壳的自然史》、《进化与升级》、《生物地理学与适应》等著作。

For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, "A Woman" (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curiously obscure in America. Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented...(展开全部)

'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?' When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazi...(展开全部)