In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated ...(展开全部)

Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraft vehicles of the JO-2 type. There await further instructions. Tales of Pirx the Pilot imagines a world in which space travel has become routine and boring - an unremarkable as...(展开全部)

Stanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 4...(展开全部)

Love is in the air—but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either, but that's a small consolation. An unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the d...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆·格林（Graham Greene，1904—1991） 21次诺贝尔文学奖提名的传奇大师。67年写作生涯，创作超25部小说，被誉为20世纪大师级作家。1950年，初次获得诺贝尔奖提名。1976年，获美国推理作家协会大师奖。1981年，获耶路撒冷文学奖。1986年，由英女王伊丽莎白二世授予功绩勋章。 格林一生游历于墨西哥、西非、南非等战乱之地，曾任职于英国军情六处。他关注人类灵魂深处的挣扎与救赎、内心的道德和精神斗争，被誉为20世纪人类意识和焦虑的传奇记录者。 本书收录了格雷厄姆·格林广为人知的小说：《第三人》和《堕落的偶像》。两部作品的改编电影均由奥斯卡导演卡罗尔·里德执导、格雷厄姆·格林担任编剧，获得包括奥斯卡金像奖、戛纳电影节金棕榈奖、英国电影学院奖在内的多项大奖，而格林本人更是拿下了奥斯卡改编剧本奖提名和威尼斯电影节改编编剧奖。 至今...(展开全部)

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night...(展开全部)

Discovered after his death, in 2003, Bolano left this novel complete as a typewritten manuscript - meticulously corrected by hand - it is published in English translation for the first time. Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Rei...(展开全部)

Bleak absurdity, deadpan humor and brilliant inventiveness mark this novel as one of the most important in Irish literature. Set in a disquieting other-world where people can become bicycles and dimensions shift without warning, the novel is footnoted with the extraordinary tale of a philosopher and his obsessed commentators.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' -- Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is co...(展开全部)

"The Third Policeman" is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its ...(展开全部)