Far from the city, but not quite the countryside, lies a fairground. When night comes and the fair is empty, something unexpected happens. Wild animals emerge from the forest, a brave raccoon pulls a lever, and the roller coasters and rides explode back into bright, neon life. It’s time for the woodland creatures to head to the fair! In a gorgeous wordless picture book, author ...(展开全部)

A spectacular, surreal and cinematic wordless picture book about the secret life of animals. Far from the city, but not quite in the countryside, lies a fairground. When night falls, and the fair is empty, something unexpected happens. Wild animals emerge from the trees, a brave raccoon pulls a lever, and the rollercoasters and rides explode back into bright, neon life. Now it’...(展开全部)

Far from the city, but not quite in the countryside, lies a fairground. When night falls, and the fair is empty, something unexpected happens. Wild animals emerge from the trees, a brave raccoon pulls a lever, and the rollercoasters and rides explode back into bright, neon life. Now it’s time for the woodland creatures to have some fun…

《白城恶魔》是美国作家埃里克·拉森的长篇犯罪纪实小说代表作。 1893年，镀金时代的美国，芝加哥世界博览会即将举行，旧世界正在崩塌，荣耀与罪恶争相上演。 总设计师伯纳姆孜孜以求，集合知名的建筑师和规划师，只为打造一场令世人赞叹的世博会，重塑芝加哥的形象。他说，这不会只是一个梦。 而在几个街区之外，一位年轻英俊的医生踏出列车，手中提着手术箱。对不知道他隐秘嗜好的女性而言，他的外表充满了魅力。他走入这个充满喧哗、雾霾和蒸汽的世界，在心中勾勒出了一座“神秘旅馆”，在那里，所有隐秘邪恶的梦想都将实现…… “我不能不杀人，就像诗人一样，灵感一来就不能不吟唱。”《白城恶魔》以富于诗意和张力的纪实性语言，交替描写了世博会的建造和杀人恶魔的疯狂。这个故事是如此丰盛，又如此邪恶，让每个人赞叹不已，又充满恐惧。 编辑推荐： ★犯罪实录文学头号著作，它展现的真相远比小说离...(展开全部)

Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the ...(展开全部)

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在线阅读本书 With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fa...(展开全部)

Book Description The text used in this Norton Critical Edition is the edition published by Garland Press (1989). The text is accompanied by: excerpts from Thackeray's letters and reviews; contemporary reviews; contextual documentation and historical accounts; and 10 critical essays from the last 90 years. A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture o...(展开全部)

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey. No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the allu...(展开全部)

Synopsis What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In...(展开全部)