In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the olde...(展开全部)

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat .In The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the ...(展开全部)

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat .In The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the ...(展开全部)

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the olde...(展开全部)

So Damned is about an eleven-year old girl who wakes up basically and finds that she is in hell and that she's dead, and that she's going to be eleven-years old and dead in hell for the rest of eternity. So she has to, number one, make friends and figure out how hell works and make the best of it. But she's also got to figure out why she's in hell and how she died, and then ult...(展开全部)

伊沃•安德里奇(1892——1975),南斯拉夫塞尔维亚作家，一九六一年“因以史诗般写作天赋,深刻揭示与其国家历史交织在一起的人的命运的问题”而获诺贝尔文学奖.。 安德里奇出生于波斯尼亚特拉夫尼克附近的多拉克村，他的父亲是个手艺人，在安德里奇三岁时就去世了。之后，母亲带着他迁居维尔舍格拉德姑母家，并在那里度过了童年，城旁德里纳河上的大桥给了他深刻的印象。他在萨拉热窝上中学时，参加革命组织“青年波斯尼亚”。一九一四年因受奥地利皇位继承人弗朗茨-斐迪难在萨拉热窝被刺身亡案牵连，被奥地利当局逮捕，入狱三年。出狱后在萨拉热窝完成中学学业，然后去萨格勒布、维也纳和克拉科夫上大学，一九二三年通过了关于波斯尼亚文化史的博士论文，获格拉茨大学博士学位。 安德里奇的祖国波斯尼亚的历史和整个南斯拉夫的历史一样，是备受外国侵略和压迫的历史。早在十四世纪波斯尼亚就受到奥斯曼...(展开全部)

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. "For awhile after you quit Keats," Fitzgerald once wrote, "All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming." John Keats died 200 years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began 100 years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan ...(展开全部)