Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of a German-Jewish immigrant, Lukas Heller, who was also a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport Campaign". Heller read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and then went on to Columbia University, New York. Heller then returned to London to w...(展开全部)

Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate ...(展开全部)

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threa...(展开全部)

远藤周作（1923—1996） 日本著名小说家，出生于东京，毕业于庆应义塾大学法文系。幼时因父亲工作调动举家迁往中国大连，回国后受洗，战后前往法国里昂大学进修法国文学。与吉行淳之介、安冈章太郎等同为战后日本文坛的“第三代新人”。 1955年短篇小说《白种人》获芥川奖。1958年《海与毒药》获每日出版文化奖。1966年《沉默》获谷崎润一郎奖。1980年《武士》获野间文艺奖。1994年《深河》获每日艺术奖。1995年远藤周作被授予日本文化勋章。 远藤周作被称为日本信仰文学的先驱，他致力于探讨日本的精神风土与基督教信仰问题，在他的创作中始终贯穿着对“罪与罚”的沉重思考 译者简介 林水福，日本文学研究者，翻译家，台湾芥川龙之介学会会长，台湾石川啄木学会会长，日本东北大学文学博士，南台科技大学教授；研究范畴以日本文学与日本文学翻译为主，并延伸到台湾文学研究及散...(展开全部)

远藤周作（1923—1996） 日本著名小说家，出生于东京，毕业于庆应义塾大学法文系。幼时因父亲工作调动举家迁往中国大连，回国后受洗，战后前往法国里昂大学进修法国文学。与吉行淳之介、安冈章太郎等同为战后日本文坛的“第三代新人”。 1955年短篇小说《白种人》获芥川奖。1958年《海与毒药》获每日出版文化奖。1966年《沉默》获谷崎润一郎奖。1980年《武士》获野间文艺奖。1994年《深河》获每日艺术奖。1995年远藤周作被授予日本文化勋章。 远藤周作被称为日本信仰文学的先驱，他致力于探讨日本的精神风土与基督教信仰问题，在他的创作中始终贯穿着对“罪与罚”的沉重思考 译者简介 林水福，日本文学研究者，翻译家，台湾芥川龙之介学会会长，台湾石川啄木学会会长，日本东北大学文学博士，南台科技大学教授；研究范畴以日本文学与日本文学翻译为主，并延伸到台湾文学研究及散...(展开全部)

In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows th...(展开全部)

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comi...(展开全部)

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comi...(展开全部)

A thrilling true crime account of the scandalous private life of Jeremy Thorpe, the British MP whose covert homosexual affair led to blackmail, cover ups, a hired hitman, and ended with the “Trial of the Century." As a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior snuck under the radar for years. Police and politicians ...(展开全部)

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, "The Wapshot Scandal" is filled wit...(展开全部)