In September 1975 Dannion Brinkley was talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm when he was struck by lightning and 'died'. He was clinically dead for more than 20 minutes. But between leaving his body and returning to it, he had an extraordinary experience. He visited a spiritual realm and was brought before 13 angelic instructors in what he describes as 'a cathedral of ...(展开全部)

On September 17,1975,after being electrocuted by a bolt of lightning,Dannion Brinkley died. When he revived twenty-eight minutes later in a morgue, he had the story of a lifetime to tell- a profoundly moving account of what happened to him during his near-death experience.It is a tale of a dark tunnel, a crystal city, and a "cathedral of knowledge" where thirteen angels shared ...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legenda...(展开全部)

中國人一向怕談死，彷彿一談，死神就會立刻降臨在身上。然而「死」卻無時無刻不在我們的四週進行。甚至我們個人，每日不都在朝向死亡前進嗎？偶視鏡裡的白髮從一根、兩根.....到無以數計拔不勝拔；身體從年輕矯健到動不動這裡酸痛那裡酸痛，「老」顯而易見，「死」，我們卻因為不曾見、不可知，而選擇逃避、忽視，往往對於此類的文書也斥之為迷信，危言聳聽而棄如鄙屣，其實我們既不能證明死後世界的存在，同樣也無法證明它不存在。我們若能將這癥結暫時擱置，儘以寬闊的心去汲取有益生活的部分，則開卷有益的說法誠不虛言。 書中的主角白克雷，住在美國的南卡羅萊納州，在1975年9月17日，被閃電擊中，死了之後被送到停屍間，28分鐘後才又甦醒過來，經歷了一般人所沒有的瀕死經驗，從此有了一輩子說不完的故事....。在死亡過程中，他遇見了黑隧道、水晶城，以及與13位光靈在知識殿堂裡分享117...(展开全部)

中國人一向怕談死，彷彿一談，死神就會立刻降臨在身上。然而「死」卻無時無刻不在我們的四週進行。甚至我們個人，每日不都在朝向死亡前進嗎？偶視鏡裡的白髮從一根、兩根.....到無以數計拔不勝拔；身體從年輕矯健到動不動這裡酸痛那裡酸痛，「老」顯而易見，「死」，我們卻因為不曾見、不可知，而選擇逃避、忽視，往往對於此類的文書也斥之為迷信，危言聳聽而棄如鄙屣，其實我們既不能證明死後世界的存在，同樣也無法證明它不存在。我們若能將這癥結暫時擱置，儘以寬闊的心去汲取有益生活的部分，則開卷有益的說法誠不虛言。 書中的主角白克雷，住在美國的南卡羅萊納州，在1975年9月17日，被閃電擊中，死了之後被送到停屍間，28分鐘後才又甦醒過來，經歷了一般人所沒有的瀕死經驗，從此有了一輩子說不完的故事....。在死亡過程中，他遇見了黑隧道、水晶城，以及與13位光靈在知識殿堂裡分享117...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grap...(展开全部)

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.