Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a targ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hercule Poirot arrives at The Hollow for a weekend luncheon just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the body of her husband. It seems obvious that she has killed her wayward spouse, but Poirot doesn't believe things are that simple. What does Christow's death have to do with his current and former lovers, both of whom are nearby? What secre...(展开全部)

It's Agatha Christie at her best as a weekend house party becomes a crime scene for special guest Hercule Poirot.

Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the drea...(展开全部)

日本を代表するコミックアーティスト浦沢直樹、松本大洋、寺田克也、カネコアツシ、小池桂一がオリジナル短編を寄稿! フランスの出版社ユマノイド創立40周年を記念する日仏米コミックアンソロジー! ! ! 日本=マンガ、フランス=バンド・デシネ、アメリカ=コミックス。世界のマンガシーンをリードする3つの地域から総勢14人のアーティストが結集! テーマは「ターニングポイント」。14人の作家たちが、さまざまな決定的瞬間をお届けします。 1974年、バンド・デシネ作家のメビウスやフィリップ・ドリュイエによって創設されたフランスの出版社HUMANOIDS(ユマノイド)は、雑誌『メタル・ユルラン』などを通じて、 世界中のマンガ家・アニメーター・映像作家に影響を与えました。本書は、そのユマノイドが、創立40周年を記念し、 世界中の優れたコミックアーティストたちにオリジナ...(展开全部)

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the arctic ice,the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory-a victory tith profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election.,To verify the authenticity of the find,the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton.Accompanied by a te...(展开全部)

Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients—and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive...(展开全部)