Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed ...(展开全部)

Following the success of the New York Times bestseller Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game , this sweeping tale of love and betrayal, vengeance and redemption, will leave you racing to its shocking, triumphant end What happens when a woman who has everything loses everything? And when a woman who has nothing realizes she has nothing to lose? Blessed with the ...(展开全部)

The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". Set in the Highgate-Archway area of...(展开全部)

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his cha...(展开全部)

三年前，世界爆发了名为「死亡体验」的病毒。 三年间，无数人以各种惨状不明死亡。 而主角傀京正是揭晓一切答案的，拯救人类存亡的，唯一 「楔子」

Was bedeutet der Tod des Vaters für das Leben? Wer war dieser Vater? Wer bin ich? Der Sohn sitzt in einer Zelle und schreibt um sein Leben. Sein Leben, das ist der Roman »Schattenfroh«. Nichts kann ihn retten, auch das eigene Erzählen nicht. Und doch muss genau davon erzählt werden: dass der Vater tot, das Ich unrettbar und die Heilsgeschichte eine gewaltige Lüge ist. Wer »Scha...(展开全部)

An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious “psychogeography of the self” that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading—Schattenfroh—directed by none other than the narrator’s mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations ...(展开全部)

三年前，世界爆发了名为「死亡体验」的病毒。 三年间，无数人以各种惨状不明死亡。 而主角傀京正是揭晓一切答案的，拯救人类存亡的，唯一 「楔子」

An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious “psychogeography of the self” that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading—Schattenfroh—directed by none other than the narrator’s mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations ...(展开全部)

Was bedeutet der Tod des Vaters für das Leben? Wer war dieser Vater? Wer bin ich? Der Sohn sitzt in einer Zelle und schreibt um sein Leben. Sein Leben, das ist der Roman »Schattenfroh«. Nichts kann ihn retten, auch das eigene Erzählen nicht. Und doch muss genau davon erzählt werden: dass der Vater tot, das Ich unrettbar und die Heilsgeschichte eine gewaltige Lüge ist. Wer »Scha...(展开全部)