DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY When Perry Mason meets Mrs. Carl Newberry on a vacation cruise, she is a woman desperately interested in saving face. For she and her husband are newcomers to the ranks of the rich--and they're sparing no expense at helping their daughter, Belle, make a successful splash in the right social circles. But Mrs. Newberry suspects that her husband embezzled t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 劳伦斯•凡•德•普司特，1906年出生于南非，20世纪著名作家、探险家、人类学家、语言学家和哲学家。1934年出版的处女作《在某省》，是第一本出自南非人之手的反种族歧视小说。两本描述沙漠布须曼人的著作《卡拉哈里沙漠的失落世界》（1958年）和《猎人之心》（1961年），被世人赞誉为拯救这支神秘种族免于灭绝命运的伟大著作。 日本著名导演大岛渚执导、豆瓣高分电影《战场上的快乐圣诞》（又译作《圣诞快乐，劳伦斯先生》）即根据他的作品《种子与播种者》（1963年）改编而来。 【译者简介】 周灵芝，曾任报社编译，现专职从事翻译及艺术创作。译作有《山高水清：五百天徒步跨欧之旅》《人生的9个学分》《在我道别之前》《迷路的地图》《解放儿童》等。

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the m...(展开全部)

A collection of stories which explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.

In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic ele...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 'The Lost' is the story of an odyssey in search of six ...(展开全部)

皮普·威廉姆斯 生于伦敦，长于悉尼。15岁开始写诗，现从事社会学与历史研究，并为多家媒体撰写专栏。曾与两位学者合作出版《时间炸弹》，研究澳大利亚的城市生活，以及旅游文学《意大利之夏》。目前与丈夫、两个儿子，以及各种动物居住在阿德莱德。 《丢失词词典》是皮普的第一部小说，以《牛津英语词典》的诞生为题材，从中寻绎一段被遗忘的女性历史。撰写过程中，作者数度造访牛津，亲手翻检上百份珍贵档案材料、访问词典出版人员，并以精致细腻、洋溢古典气息的笔法，娓娓道来这段横跨103年的宏伟历史。《丢失词词典》甫一出版即攻占澳大利亚图书销售榜榜首，并售出超过21国（地区）版权。 译者简介 闻若婷国文系毕业，曾任职出版社编辑，现为自由译者及校对，擅长领域为小说。译作包括《虎丘情浓》、《从前从前，在河畔》、《孤独世纪》、《看不见的图书馆》系列。

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