novel, tr w/intro by William Weaver

novel, tr w/intro by William Weaver

哈兰·科本(Harlan Coben，1962—)，美国当代作家，美国三代总统克林顿、小布什、奥巴马最喜欢的畅销书作家，《达?芬奇密码》作者丹·布朗的伯乐，第一位也是迄今为止唯一一位同时包揽国际最权威的埃德加·爱伦坡奖、莎马斯奖和安东尼奖的美国作家，第一位入选图书奥斯卡（英国年度图书奖）的美国人。1995年，他以(Deal Breaker)而走红，赢得评论家和读者的广泛好评。迄今为止，已经连续推出“米隆?波利塔系列小说”(Myron Bolitar series)共十本，并因此获得诸多殊荣。《纽约时报》称赞他的小说是“天才作品”，《洛杉矶时报》认为他的小说“充满洞见”，《休斯顿纪事》指出他的作品“始终给人带来愉悦”。许多报刊一致认为，哈兰·科本的作品是必读书。目前,科本的作品已经至少以三十二种语言出版，每一部作品都是世界范围的畅销书，从而牢固地确立了...(展开全部)

The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death Best for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards. Some of his albums, XO and Either/Or among t...(展开全部)

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Wit...(展开全部)

We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong? And will we learn our lesson - or just carry on as before, like celebrating surviving a heart attack with a packet of Rothmans? If you want to know, but are the sort of person who finds it hard to tell the difference betwe...(展开全部)

We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong? And will we learn our lesson - or just carry on as before, like celebrating surviving a heart attack with a packet of Rothmans? If you want to know, but are the sort of person who finds it hard to tell the difference betwe...(展开全部)

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Wit...(展开全部)

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the diffic...(展开全部)

A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet - or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: 'Something has gone wrong,' and 'How ...(展开全部)