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)

Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspi...(展开全部)

Esta es la historia de Charles Mason y Jeremiah Dixon, un melancolico astronomo y un exultante topografo britanicos que, a sueldo de la Royal Society, trazaron la linea que separaba Pennsylvania y Maryland, conocida aun hoy como la Linea Mason-Dixon, y de sus viajes por el mundo, contada por el magistral Thomas Pynchon. / The story of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, an astron...(展开全部)

《梅森与迪克逊》出版于1997年，背景是独立战争前的美洲殖民地，以英国天文学家查尔斯·梅森(Charles Mason)和勘探员杰罗米·迪克逊(Jeremiah Dixon)勘察并划定梅森-迪克逊线(宾夕法尼亚州与马里兰州分界线和美国革命前南北分界线)的经历为线索，探讨立国前后在国民性问题上种族、阶级和派系纷争的历史根源及其在共和国发展历程中的流变，揭示革命理想与社会现实之间的巨大差距。梅森-迪克逊线的勘察与划定不仅构成了小说情节的主线，还成为具有伦理和政治寓意的隐喻，为作者切人帝国的文化逻辑提供了一条具有稳定所指又富有弹性的符号链，连接了美国历史各个重要时期，显示出贯古通今的历史感。繁复众多的人物、事件以及纵横交错的线条构成了巨大的迷宫，展现主人公梅森与迪克逊在这片神秘国土上对勘察的意义和新世界理想产生的困惑和迷茫，由此引出关于美国民族国家的立国基...(展开全部)

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major c...(展开全部)

托马斯·品钦（Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.，1937——），全名托马斯·鲁格斯·品钦。美国后现代主义文学代表作家。1937年5月8日，托马斯·品钦出生于美国长岛，曾于美国海军服役两年，1957年毕业于康奈尔大学，后在波音公司担任技术作家。1960年起开始着手创作第一部长篇小说《V.》，其作品主要包括长篇小说《V.》（1963年）、《拍卖第四十九批》（1966年）、《万有引力之虹》（1973年）、《葡萄园》（1990年）、《梅森和迪克逊》（1997年）、《抵抗白昼》（2006年）、《性本恶》（2009年）、《尖峰时代》（2013年）及短篇小说集《慢慢学》（1984年），曾获得福克纳文学奖 、美国国家图书奖等多个奖项 。是当代美国最伟大的小说家之一。

《梅森与迪克逊》出版于1997年，背景是独立战争前的美洲殖民地，以英国天文学家查尔斯·梅森(Charles Mason)和勘探员杰罗米·迪克逊(Jeremiah Dixon)勘察并划定梅森-迪克逊线(宾夕法尼亚州与马里兰州分界线和美国革命前南北分界线)的经历为线索，探讨立国前后在国民性问题上种族、阶级和派系纷争的历史根源及其在共和国发展历程中的流变，揭示革命理想与社会现实之间的巨大差距。梅森-迪克逊线的勘察与划定不仅构成了小说情节的主线，还成为具有伦理和政治寓意的隐喻，为作者切人帝国的文化逻辑提供了一条具有稳定所指又富有弹性的符号链，连接了美国历史各个重要时期，显示出贯古通今的历史感。繁复众多的人物、事件以及纵横交错的线条构成了巨大的迷宫，展现主人公梅森与迪克逊在这片神秘国土上对勘察的意义和新世界理想产生的困惑和迷茫，由此引出关于美国民族国家的立国基...(展开全部)

After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? In Conversations on Love she began t...(展开全部)

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows...(展开全部)

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic de...(展开全部)