A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inhe...(展开全部)

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheri...(展开全部)

When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty years since its first publication, it is made available once again. Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a fiteenth century illuminated manuscript containing a series of some of the most beautiful illu...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of "Naked Lunch" is the first of the trilogy with "The Places of the Dead Roads" and his final novel, "The Western Plains."

因为死亡是夜之魂； 那永恒的阴影， 所有生命都将坠入其中， 一切希望尽成虚妄。 ----------------------------------------------------------- “杀完一个红发男人，我抽身前往鲲音馆吃晚餐，点了牡蛎。” 一八五四年十月的一个寒夜，伦敦一条阴暗小巷中，一个无辜男人被夺去了生命。杀人者、书痴、学者爱德华·葛莱弗的爱恨情仇从这里拉开帷幕。 遗腹子葛莱弗自幼相信他命中注定会成就伟大事业。他十二岁生日那天，母亲交给他一盒金币，说是不愿透露姓名的朋友赠给他的礼物。在伊顿公学，他遭人陷害，被逐出校门。成年后，他终于发现自己真正的离奇身世，巨大的权势与财富在向他召唤。他要夺回应该属于他的一切！ 从维多利亚时代的伦敦，雾气弥漫的街巷深处那些妓院与鸦片馆，到英格兰乡间显赫的贵族豪宅，葛莱弗的故事充满背叛与欺骗、死亡与...(展开全部)

因为死亡是夜之魂； 那永恒的阴影， 所有生命都将坠入其中， 一切希望尽成虚妄。 ----------------------------------------------------------- “杀完一个红发男人，我抽身前往鲲音馆吃晚餐，点了牡蛎。” 一八五四年十月的一个寒夜，伦敦一条阴暗小巷中，一个无辜男人被夺去了生命。杀人者、书痴、学者爱德华·葛莱弗的爱恨情仇从这里拉开帷幕。 遗腹子葛莱弗自幼相信他命中注定会成就伟大事业。他十二岁生日那天，母亲交给他一盒金币，说是不愿透露姓名的朋友赠给他的礼物。在伊顿公学，他遭人陷害，被逐出校门。成年后，他终于发现自己真正的离奇身世，巨大的权势与财富在向他召唤。他要夺回应该属于他的一切！ 从维多利亚时代的伦敦，雾气弥漫的街巷深处那些妓院与鸦片馆，到英格兰乡间显赫的贵族豪宅，葛莱弗的故事充满背叛与欺骗、死亡与...(展开全部)

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

As a child and parent walk down the block to the bay and turn to walk back home, evening falls upon the neighborhood. As the walk begins, the squirrels are in the yards, the boys are mowing lawns, a neighbor is baking a pie, and someone is mailing a letter. When the child and parent turn to walk back home, the apple pie is down from the windowsill, the leaves are raked up, an...(展开全部)

'"night, Mother" is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. "'night, Mother "had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater i...(展开全部)