'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but...(展开全部)

Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but...(展开全部)

The young man and woman ordered a basin each of the mixture, steaming hot, and sat down to consume it at leisure. This was very well so far, for furmity, as the woman had said, was nourishing, and as proper a food as could be obtained within the four seas; though, to those not accustomed to it, the grains of wheat swollen as large as lemon-pips, which floated on its surface, mi...(展开全部)

本書作者藍迪．席爾茲，是全美主流報紙第一位專職報導愛滋病的新聞記者，在廿年的記者生涯中，緊告同性戀平權和愛滋病兩大議題，並曾四度獲獎。『同性戀平權鬥士』是他親見正聞，並以標準而專業化的報導方式撰寫的真人實事。本書不但是同性戀運動的故事，也是關於愛、尊嚴與平等的故事。

本書作者藍迪．席爾茲，是全美主流報紙第一位專職報導愛滋病的新聞記者，在廿年的記者生涯中，緊告同性戀平權和愛滋病兩大議題，並曾四度獲獎。『同性戀平權鬥士』是他親見正聞，並以標準而專業化的報導方式撰寫的真人實事。本書不但是同性戀運動的故事，也是關於愛、尊嚴與平等的故事。

This volume contains essays on the samples of twenty-six of the languages of Inner Eurasia. The samples were originally collected by Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) and published by him in 1705. For thirty years this Dutch diplomat, scholar and Mayor of Amsterdam gathered information about the physical features, the flora, the fauna and the peoples of the northern and eastern parts...(展开全部)

名叫夏瑞狄恩‧薩卡威的男子是特別行動局最頂尖的探員之一，透過陰謀、卑劣的詭計或軍事行動改變星球的命運，好符合「文明」的期望。 名叫狄賽特‧斯瑪的女子從卑微不受注意的地帶將他拉出來，將他推向現在的顯赫成就，但儘管有他們那一切的約定，她並不如她以為的那樣了解他。 名叫斯卡芬─阿姆提斯考的機器人認識這兩個人。它曾經以特別血腥的辦法展開大屠殺而救了女子一命。它認為那位男子已經喪失了熱忱。但即使擁有機器的人工智慧，它也無從見證男子的可怕過去。 無比地聰穎，兼具詼諧與恐怖，《武器浮生錄》是一部科幻小說的傑作。 再也沒有英國科幻作家的作品讓我如此熱切期待……班克斯改寫了整個太空歌劇文類的劇本。──時報雜誌 如詩、幽默、困惑、恐怖、性感──伊恩‧班克斯的書就是這些加上更多。──NME 一本細緻、錯綜複雜的小說，充滿了動作跟道德見解，而且撰寫得如此美麗，讓我永遠不想讓...(展开全部)