Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruis...(展开全部)

From the Back Cover The debut title in Ecco's the art of the Story Series—a collection of twelve short works of fiction that showcase Tobias Wolff's extraordinary craft In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff's first collection of short fiction, hailed the arrival of a major talent and the beginning of an acclaimed, bestselling career. In each of these sharply...(展开全部)

From the Back Cover The debut title in Ecco's the art of the Story Series—a collection of twelve short works of fiction that showcase Tobias Wolff's extraordinary craft In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff's first collection of short fiction, hailed the arrival of a major talent and the beginning of an acclaimed, bestselling career. In each of these sharply...(展开全部)

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”— New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, w...(展开全部)

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”— New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, w...(展开全部)

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere s ride to raise the countryside of New England against the m...(展开全部)

Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally. Covering a broad range of themes and time periods, no two stories in this collection are alike!

Citizens of No Place is a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, graphically represented using manga-style storyboards. Fiction is used as a strategy to unpack thoughts about architecture. Modeled as a proto-manifesto, it is a candid chronicle of a highly critical thought process in the tradition of paper architecture (especially that of architect John Hejduk...(展开全部)

P5：我想你一定有过这样的经历——看电视剧正起劲儿时，突然插入某广告：“XXX，不走寻常路”、“XXX，手机中的战斗机”、“我也爱用XXX”这类的ADs，看看，和AIDS就差一个字母了，本来就是一泡屎，自己还觉着怎么着呢……真是《扫兴》。 P16：《蓝色时期》 最近几年，装13一词使用频率骤然升高，让我们看看这些不知补没不补过钙的艺能界人士是如何用实际行动来完美诠释这个名词的吧！ P17：《X3》“……你是一个啥样人儿哎？！”来做一下心理测试吧。 P21:《约翰·列侬》，他在另一个世界继续自己的传奇。 P22：《想当然》。我一直没弄明白这个标题是什么含义，跟蛾子有什么关系呢，只能《想当然》。 P30:《无题》。……疑惑中…… P34:《美臀娘醉游记》。这篇要用“牡丹花下死，做鬼也风流。”来概括是不是有点文不对题呢？！ P39:《有完没完》。呼呼，终于...(展开全部)

This volume features startling stories of distinction by a remarkable writer who vividly describes the township squalor of growing up in settler-exploited Rhodesia.