A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by New York Times bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran! A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winn...(展开全部)

Enn is a sixteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear! From the Locus Award-winning short story by Neil Gaiman--one of the most celebrated aut...(展开全部)

Timeless tales of the world's greatest heroes from the legendary creator of THE SANDMAN and AMERICAN GODS are collected in DC UNIVERSE BY NEIL GAIMAN. What evil is so powerful that it can melt the Man of Steel--and extinguish the Green Lantern's light? How did Poison Ivy's power first take root--and where did the Riddler find his calling? Who killed the Batman--and will the leg...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.) The storie...(展开全部)

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastica...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had th...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)

威廉•特雷弗 （1928－2016） 爱尔兰当代文学大师，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最伟大的短篇小说家”。出生于爱尔兰科克郡米切尔斯敦一个中产阶级新教家庭，在外省度过童年时代，后到都柏林圣三一学院历史系求学，毕业后先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案。从一九五四年起，和妻子移居英国。 自一九五八年出版第一部长篇小说《行为标准》以来，已创作近二十部中长篇小说、数百篇短篇小说，还著有多部戏剧剧本、童书及散文集。先后三次获得英国惠特布雷德图书奖，五次入围布克奖，一度是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。二○○二年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予骑士爵位。二○○八年，获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖。 二○一六年十一月，病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director...(展开全部)