Beyond surreal and bordering on the indescribable, Velvet Glove is a perfectly-executed serial of the strange and macabre, held together with a rigorous dream-logic only Clowes could conjure. Couched within a detective genre structure and rich with recurring motifs and repeated imagery, the plot follows Clay Loudermilk as he searches for a former lover.

Beyond surreal and bordering on the indescribable, Velvet Glove is a perfectly-executed serial of the strange and macabre, held together with a rigorous dream-logic only Clowes could conjure. Couched within a detective genre structure and rich with recurring motifs and repeated imagery, the plot follows Clay Loudermilk as he searches for a former lover.

From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point. A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death. Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the señor a...(展开全部)

君の過去も秘密も、全て愛そう　互いを愛し合いながらも生き別れてしまった双子の至と一。だが至は入学した高校で、クラスメイトの「リョータ」と恋に落ちる。嫉妬と失望に駆られる一だが、その数ヵ月後、至は交通事故で帰らぬ人となってしまう。失意の一に渡されたのは、至が事故当日に投函する筈の手紙だった。届かぬ手紙に記されたリョータとの悲しい恋の真実、復讐を誓う一が出会った謎の「先生」、様々な人間の運命が交差する、衝撃のドラマがついに完結。一と先生のその後を綴った描き下ろしも含めた、松本ケンタロウ渾身のデビュー作！

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present...(展开全部)

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and wash laundry while wearing a corset? How To Be A Victorian is a new approach to history, a ...(展开全部)

A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this cha...(展开全部)

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic, and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, Eco published a little book for his students, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis. Since...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the prese...(展开全部)