A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously-and fatally-plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be St...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, "Darkness At Noon, " is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Unde...(展开全部)

N. S. Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight, Koestler traces his story through arrest, imprisonment and trail in a classic novel which, when first published, famously drew attention to the nature of Stalin's regime.

Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, "Darkness At Noon, " is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Unde...(展开全部)

N. S. Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight, Koestler traces his story through arrest, imprisonment and trail in a classic novel which, when first published, famously drew attention to the nature of Stalin's regime.

In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review ), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in ...(展开全部)

洛丽·摩尔，1957年生于纽约州，毕业于康奈尔大学创意写作系，1983年凭第一部短篇小说集《自助》奠定其在美国文坛的声誉。之后她相继出版短篇小说集《就像生活》《美国鸟人》，以及长篇小说《字谜游戏》《谁将开办青蛙医院？》和《门在楼梯口》等。她的短篇小说《你也很丑》被约翰·厄普代克收入他主编的《二十世纪美国最佳短篇小说》。 洛丽·摩尔曾在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校教授创意写作30年。2013年起开始在范德堡大学任教。此外她还在密歇根大学、普林斯顿大学等教授创意写作。 2006年，洛丽·摩尔被推选为美国艺术暨文学学会成员。 她最近的一部作品是出版于2014年的短篇小说集《树皮》。

洛丽·摩尔，1957年生于纽约州，毕业于康奈尔大学创意写作系，1983年凭第一部短篇小说集《自助》奠定其在美国文坛的声誉。之后她相继出版短篇小说集《就像生活》《美国鸟人》，以及长篇小说《字谜游戏》《谁将开办青蛙医院？》和《门在楼梯口》等。她的短篇小说《你也很丑》被约翰·厄普代克收入他主编的《二十世纪美国最佳短篇小说》。 洛丽·摩尔曾在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校教授创意写作30年。2013年起开始在范德堡大学任教。此外她还在密歇根大学、普林斯顿大学等教授创意写作。 2006年，洛丽·摩尔被推选为美国艺术暨文学学会成员。 她最近的一部作品是出版于2014年的短篇小说集《树皮》。