Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds the warm, comfortable, safe home for which she always yearned -- and the ins...(展开全部)

Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself...(展开全部)

威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron），一九二五年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学，曾在美国海军陆战队服役，被誉为继海明威和福克纳之后最伟大的作家之一。一九五一年，长篇小说处女作《躺在黑暗中》一问世就获得美国文学艺术学会的大奖。一九六七年的《纳特·特那的自白》为其赢得当年的普利策文学奖。一九七八年由著名的兰登书屋出版的《苏菲的选择》成为美国当代小说的经典之作，被誉为“西方小说史上的里程碑作品”，为斯泰隆摘得了当年的美国国家图书奖。其小说惯于将死亡与性，残酷与激情融为一体。另著有《漫长的行程》、《纵火焚屋》、《静静的灰尘》和《看得见的黑暗》等。

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

都市風景の表現に新たな地平を切り拓く次世代アーティストとして国際的にも注目される写真家の本格的作品集。絶えず作られては壊されていく蜘蛛の巣のように張りめぐらされた都市の迷路。

Scene: an English houseparty. As in a nightmare, Clarissa, wife of a foreign diplomat, finds a body in her drawing room. Desperate to dispose of it before her husband brings home an important politician, she enlists the help of her guests. The search for the murderer is interrupted by a police inspector who must be convinced that everything is cricket.

米尔顿·哈通（Milton Hatoum），巴西当代著名作家、翻译家。1952年出生于巴西亚马孙州首府玛瑙斯，父亲为黎巴嫩移民。哈通十五岁到巴西利亚求学，后又赴圣保罗和法国巴黎深造。1989年出版长篇小说处女作《一个东方人的故事》并在1990年凭借此书荣获巴西雅布提文学奖。其代表作还有《黄金城的孤儿》《两兄弟》《北方的灰烬》等。 马琳，中国社会科学院外国文学研究所编辑。巴西坎皮纳斯州立大学文学理论与文学史专业博士。巴西文学研究者、译者。主要研究方向为巴西当代族裔文学、巴西女性文学。现有已出版译著：米亚·科托《母狮的忏悔》、克里斯托旺·泰扎《永远的菲利普》、米尔顿·哈通《两兄弟》等。

Emilie, the matriarch, is on her deathbed. Returning to her childhood home to say goodbye, her granddaughter becomes enveloped in memories, as family and friends gather round to tell their own tales, one by one. We hear of how Uncle Hanna first left Lebanon for Brazil early in the twentieth century; of Soraya Angela, the illegitimate deaf-mute child whose short life was blighte...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author. Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the ...(展开全部)