Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh approach to transforming uncertai...(展开全部)

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Ch...(展开全部)

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Ch...(展开全部)

The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, sc...(展开全部)

There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But t...(展开全部)

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., has been dubbed "the queen of Self-Help" by the Times in the UK and is considered one of the top self-help authors in the world. Her books has been published in over 100 countries and translated into over 30 languages. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway launched her career as a bestselling author. Some of her many other titles include Feel the Fear and Beyond,...(展开全部)