CAN SHE ESCAPE THE PERSON SHE ONCE LOVED? Beth Murphy is on the run… For nearly a year, Beth has been plotting to leave her abusive husband. This is her one chance at freedom—one that requires a new look, new name and new city. Each part of her plan has to be carefully thought out, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. Sabine Hardison is missing… A coupl...(展开全部)

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself rema...(展开全部)

科蒂斯·希登弗尔德，因长篇小说处女作《奥尔特校园手记》（PREP）而声名鹊起的美国才女型作家，一九七六年出生，十六岁时在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年，她在《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛中获奖。他的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上，还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员，曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。《奥尔特校园手记》当选为《纽约时报》二00五年十佳图书之一，并入围英国的奥兰治奖。他的第二部长篇小说《致我的青蛙王子》。（The Man of my Drdam）也颇受好评。《美国夫人》（American Wife）是希登费尔德的第三部长篇小说，被《纽约时报》评选为二00九年值得关注的图书，同时被亚马逊网上书店、《芝加哥论坛报》、《娱乐》周刊、美国公共广播电台、《人物》...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. ...(展开全部)

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯 （William Wilkie Collins，1824—1889） 19世纪英国维多利亚时代最富盛名的作家之一，英国文学史上第一位侦探小说作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，是他第一个将短篇侦探小说引向长篇的创作。他一生创作了 大量长篇小说，代表作有《月亮宝石》《白衣女人》，等等。有评论指出：“创造英国侦探小说并赋予它那些至今保持不变的基本特征的功劳应归于狄更斯和柯林斯。” 译者 潘华凌 男，江西上高人，教授，中国译协专家会员、理事，多年从事翻译研究、翻译教学和翻译实践，已在多家出版社出版文学译作和学术译著近四十部，计近一千万字，主要译作有《全球时代的欧洲》《大卫·科波菲尔》《爱玛》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《人鼠之间》《动物农场》《1984》《消失的地平线》等。

In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Man and Wife was first published in 1870 and was a biting attack on Victorian marriage laws in England. Th...(展开全部)

On a summer's morning between thirty and forty years ago- two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship- bound outward from Gravesend to Bombay.' (Excerpt form Chapter 1)