What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitatio...(展开全部)

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitatio...(展开全部)

Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com’s 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed’s 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The...(展开全部)

山姆•昆诺斯（1958— ），从事记者工作近30年，曾作为自由撰稿人在墨西哥生活了10年，在那里他完成了两本著作。2004年，他回到美国为《洛杉矶时报》工作，进行移民、贩毒、帮派等方面的调查和报道。2014年辞职，重做自由职业者，为《国家地理杂志》《纽约时报》《洛杉矶杂志》等刊物工作。 2011年开始撰写并出版“真相系列”作品。

山姆•昆诺斯（1958— ），从事记者工作近30年，曾作为自由撰稿人在墨西哥生活了10年，在那里他完成了两本著作。2004年，他回到美国为《洛杉矶时报》工作，进行移民、贩毒、帮派等方面的调查和报道。2014年辞职，重做自由职业者，为《国家地理杂志》《纽约时报》《洛杉矶杂志》等刊物工作。 2011年开始撰写并出版“真相系列”作品。

William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom...(展开全部)

William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom...(展开全部)

The uplifting true tale of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. Now a Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'The landscape is magical: shape-shifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely . . . It's a tale of triumph: of hope over despair; of love over ever...(展开全部)

Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters — one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and...(展开全部)