An expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communica...(展开全部)

科尔姆•托宾，爱尔兰当代著名作家。他1955年生于爱尔兰韦克斯福德郡恩尼斯科西镇。毕业于都柏林大学。自1990年发表第一部小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版九部长篇小说，两部短篇小说集，多部戏剧、游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《马利亚的自白》（2012）都入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度都柏林国际文学奖等文学奖。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。《名门》（2017）是他最新一部长篇小说。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。 目前，托宾担任哥伦比亚大学英文与比较文学系Irene and Sidney B. Silverman 人文讲席教授，自2017年起也担任...(展开全部)

A highly original and provocative imagining of the life of the Christian and cultural icon Mary—from one of today’s most “immensely gifted and accomplished” ( The Washington Post ) novelists. Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm TÓibÍn’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Tes...(展开全部)

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives...(展开全部)

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat .In The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the ...(展开全部)

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the olde...(展开全部)