【作者简介】 约翰•迪克森•卡尔（John Dickson Carr，1906—1977），美籍推理小说家，曾在英国长期定居。他的作品集欧美古典本格推理之大成，并以“密室谋杀”和“不可能犯罪”的构思见长，有“密室之王”的美誉。1950年和1970年，他先后两次获得美国推理作家协会（简称MWA）的埃德加•爱伦•坡特别奖。1963年，MWA一致同意向他颁发“终身大师奖”，这是推理界的最高荣誉。 ———————————————————————— 【译者简介】 覃学岚，土家族，湖北五峰人，文学博士，中国翻译协会专家会员，清华大学外文系副教授，著有《当代译学批判》，代表性译著有《生命的七大精神法则》《亨利六世》（上、中、下）《暮光之城：暮色》《论幸福生活》《莎士比亚传》《双面女间谍的爱情与谎言》及近译《个人印象》。

This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales ...(展开全部)

This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales ...(展开全部)

《天方夜谭》（又名《一千零一夜》）是古代阿拉伯的一部民间故事集。故事的起因是阿拉伯的某位国王因王后行为不端，便每天晚上娶一个妻子，次日早晨便把她杀死。沙赫拉查德为了制止国王的残暴行为，决心嫁给他，并开始每晚给国王讲一个故事，讲了一千零一夜。终于，国王被她的故事感化。全书共二百多个故事，本书精选了其中十九个脍炙人口的篇章，其内容包罗万象，情节奇幻诡异，令人叹为观止。

《天方夜谭》（又名《一千零一夜》）是古代阿拉伯的一部民间故事集。故事的起因是阿拉伯的某位国王因王后行为不端，便每天晚上娶一个妻子，次日早晨便把她杀死。沙赫拉查德为了制止国王的残暴行为，决心嫁给他，并开始每晚给国王讲一个故事，讲了一千零一夜。终于，国王被她的故事感化。全书共二百多个故事，本书精选了其中十九个脍炙人口的篇章，其内容包罗万象，情节奇幻诡异，令人叹为观止。

A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters.

这部小说集收入19世纪的英国著名作家斯蒂文森的6部作品，中篇和短篇数量各半。具体包括：《自杀俱乐部》、《印度王的钻石》、《沙汀上的孤亭》、《投宿一宿》、《马莱特罗伊老爷的门》、《天意和吉他》。 本书借助东方故事样式的叙述形态所产生的特殊审美情趣，以及精干结构的情节性张力，摈弃了冗长乏味的叙述议论空间，给读者以异常轻快明晰的字句享受。作者在本书中营造了一种特殊的若即若离的情调，使目下的现实与文本的虚拟既结合又疏离，使人物刻画、情节构思、象征手法、隐喻使用等写作技巧更为自如、圆润。而且，在这部作品里，作者还较为准确地揭示出人性的多重性与复杂性。 本书中的作品以仿阿拉伯民间文学巨著《天方夜谭》的形式（因此其中即使是中篇小说，也可视作红线贯通的短篇故事的集合来阅读、分析），借助说故事者独特的视阈和轻松幽默的话语，提供了读者一窥19世纪发达资本主义大都市繁华喧...(展开全部)

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among p...(展开全部)

The southern Arabian desert, a quarter million square miles of sand (650,000 square kilometers), is now a place of oil wells and Land Rovers, but before the 1950s it was still known as the Empty Quarter, a place you entered only on camel and only as an Arab. Only a few white men had ever seen it, much less crossed it. From 1945 to 1950, the British Thesiger crossed it twice, li...(展开全部)

Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord over atheir respectiv...(展开全部)