Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction feature...(展开全部)

雷·布拉德伯里（1920—2012），二十世纪最重要的美国作家之一，殿堂级科幻大师。他被视为“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域的最重要人物”，先后赢得了世界奇幻终身成就奖、甘道夫大师奖、布莱姆·斯托克终身成就奖、星云奖、美国国家图书基金会卓越成就奖、普利策特别褒扬奖等至高荣誉，获颁美国国家艺术勋章、法兰西艺术及文学司令勋章。 1920年出生于美国伊利诺伊州，1943年开始专职从事写作，布拉德伯里的代表作品有长篇小说《华氏451》、短篇小说集《火星编年史》等。布拉德伯里的作品文笔优美，富有诗意与哲思，属于极少数能改变人们思考方式的作家。他一生发表超过500部作品，包括短篇小说、长篇小说、剧本、诗歌，堪称想象力的杰出典范。 布拉德伯里的作品涵盖了科幻、奇幻、恐怖等各种类型，因对类型文学的杰出贡献，他在主流文学界引起了巨大反响，2004年，时任美国总统小布什为布...(展开全部)

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction feature...(展开全部)

These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection desp...(展开全部)

Creative Education's short story collections are ideal introductions to some of the world's best-known authors. the short, timeless classics of Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, and others are celebrated in these handsome volumes.

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)