Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the story is about to be published that this man’s real name has crept into his manusc...(展开全部)

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story? You'll have to read this award winner and find out.

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?

“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.” Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mi...(展开全部)

“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.” Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "Oprah's Book Club(r) May 1999 Selection Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection...(展开全部)

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrids mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life ...(展开全部)

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrids mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "Oprah's Book Club(r) May 1999 Selection Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection...(展开全部)

作者： 凯瑟琳•柯里森（Catherine Kerrison，1953—），历史学博士，美国维拉诺瓦大学历史系副教授，教授殖民地历史、美国革命史以及妇女和性别史课程。她的第一本著作《笔的诉求：美国早期的南方女性及其智识生活》（Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South）获美国教育史学会杰出著作奖。 译者： 吴秀杰、白岚玲，合译有《技术、性别、历史：重新审视帝制中国的大转型》《工开万物：17世纪中国的知识与技术》等；吴秀杰另有译作《人类的群星闪耀时》《昨日的世界：一个欧洲人的回忆》等。 丛书主编： 林鹤，清华大学建筑历史与理论硕士，后留校任教，之后转为自由作者。著译作品有《西方20世纪别墅二十讲》《流水别墅传：赖特、考夫曼与美国最杰出的别墅》《水晶之...(展开全部)