Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This work tells the story of an extremely cunning and fearsome whale which becomes the focus of fear and superstition among its pursuers. The one-legged Ca...(展开全部)

A masterful adaptation of the timeless literary classic, faithfully and beautifully rendered by an award-winning artist. In striking black-and-white illustrations, Chabouté retells the story of the Great American Novel. Captain Ahab strikes out on a voyage, obsessively seeking revenge on the great white whale that took his leg. This hardcover edition collects both of the Vents ...(展开全部)

Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishme...(展开全部)

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)

米莉亚姆·泰维兹 Miriam Toews 加拿大作家。1964年生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭。 她出版了八部小说和一部关于父亲的回忆录，获得过多项文学奖，包括加拿大最高文学奖总督奖、麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖（两次）和罗杰斯作家基金会小说奖等。 2019年，长篇小说《女人们的谈话》出版，入围总督文学奖决选和都柏林国际文学奖以及其他多项美国和加拿大全国性文学奖项。同名电影于2022年底搬上大银幕，荣获2023年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。 卢肖慧|译者 20世纪60年代生于上海，90年代赴美留学，毕业于纽约大学商学院。世纪初年开始从事翻译，译有《漫长的告别》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《解说疾病的人》《别的声音，别的房间》等。现居纽约。

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future...(展开全部)

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future...(展开全部)

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)

米莉亚姆·泰维兹 Miriam Toews 加拿大作家。1964年生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭。 她出版了八部小说和一部关于父亲的回忆录，获得过多项文学奖，包括加拿大最高文学奖总督奖、麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖（两次）和罗杰斯作家基金会小说奖等。 2019年，长篇小说《女人们的谈话》出版，入围总督文学奖决选和都柏林国际文学奖以及其他多项美国和加拿大全国性文学奖项。同名电影于2022年底搬上大银幕，荣获2023年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。 卢肖慧|译者 20世纪60年代生于上海，90年代赴美留学，毕业于纽约大学商学院。世纪初年开始从事翻译，译有《漫长的告别》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《解说疾病的人》《别的声音，别的房间》等。现居纽约。