威廉·布里坦本是一名中学老师，从60年代开始业余时间从事创作。他的短篇小说主要包含两个系列。其一是“阅读侦探小说的人”系列，针对一些著名侦探小说作家作品的模仿和搞笑。其二是“斯特朗老师”系列，主角是一所高中的科学老师，讲述了他遇到的形形色色的案件，大都和他的学生或学校有关。这套书收录了这两个系列。斯特朗老师系列之前在欧美和日本都没有全集，这次是首次完整结集。

威廉·布里坦本是一名中学老师，从60年代开始业余时间从事创作。他的短篇小说主要包含两个系列。其一是“阅读侦探小说的人”系列，针对一些著名侦探小说作家作品的模仿和搞笑。其二是“斯特朗老师”系列，主角是一所高中的科学老师，讲述了他遇到的形形色色的案件，大都和他的学生或学校有关。这套书收录了这两个系列。斯特朗老师系列之前在欧美和日本都没有全集，这次是首次完整结集。

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and ...(展开全部)

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when fast...(展开全部)

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and ...(展开全部)

Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Parra, Levrero and Pavese to Millan, Ribeyro, Tanizaki or Bolano, Natalia Ginzb...(展开全部)

"Norton is clearly a charmer, and Gethers tells his story with contagious affection....Will warm the heart of any confirmed cat-lover." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Before Peter Gethers met Norton, the publisher, screenwriter, and author was a confirmed cat-hater. Then everything changed. Peter opened his heart to the Scottish Fold kitten and their adventures to Paris, Fire I...(展开全部)

Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you t...(展开全部)