Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned re...(展开全部)

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

Throughout the 1950s, as the Cuban people laboured under a violently repressive regime, the Mob-financed revelry in Havana never stopped. Tourists from around the world flooded in to gamble, go to the racetrack, see an elaborate floorshow at the Tropicana, hear some of the hottest music around and perhaps partake in the kinky sexual activities that flourished on the fringe of t...(展开全部)

Book Description How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous b...(展开全部)

John Green’s brilliant #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe, in movie theaters June 6, 2014! Includes a full-color insert of stills from the movie! Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her...(展开全部)

夏洛特．柏金斯．吉爾曼（Charlotte Perkins Gilman，1860-1935） 美國知名作家、女性主義先鋒，及社會運動改革家。 父親在她嬰兒時期就棄家離去，家境貧寒。母親為保護她，禁止她與別人有過多交往和閱讀小說，童年時期很孤單，上過七所不同的公立學校。後來與父親取得連繫，得到資助，十八歲進入羅德島設計學院。 1884年與藝術家查理斯．沃爾特．斯泰森（Charles Walter Stetson）結婚。第二年女兒出生後就變得抑鬱，接受「休息療法」，醫生禁止她下床、閱讀、寫作、縫補、說話、自己吃飯。出院後仍遵照醫生建議，盡可能居家不出，孩子不離左右，每天只有兩小時的智力活動，但後來抑鬱症仍然加重，開始出現自殺行為。她的半自傳式短篇小說《黃壁紙》即來自此段經歷。 1894年正式離婚，與女兒搬到了加州，開始活躍於一些女權和改革組織中...(展开全部)