How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...<br /><br />A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natura...(展开全部)

The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food -- f...(展开全部)

达芙妮·杜穆里埃，英国当代极具影响力的殿堂级女作家，英国皇家文学会会员，曾获爱伦·坡终身大师奖、美国国家图书奖和安东尼世纪图书奖，其作品在大英图书馆被借阅次数超过莎士比亚。 杜穆里埃一生共创作了17部长篇小说以及几十种其他体裁的文学作品，尤其擅长描写爱情的诡异之处，代表作有《蝴蝶梦》《浮生梦》《牙买加旅馆》等。她的小说气氛神秘，悬念迭生。“悬疑电影圣手”希区柯克曾三度改编其作品。本书收录了杜穆里埃创作生涯中后期的6篇短篇悬疑佳作，延续其一贯的写作风格一哥特式惊悚悬疑色彩与浪漫主义元素的结合，故事情节丝丝入扣，带给读者绝无仅有的阅读体验。

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and...(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。

Eca de Queiroz's sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin his lascivious anti-heroes Teodoro and Teodorico,are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the guise of a dark-suited civil servant)and Jesus Christ Himself. This short novel is accompanied by the short stories Jose Ma...(展开全部)

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee show us, once more, a writer confronting moral and emotional quandaries, often with wry humour. In the lead story, 'The Pole', concert pianist Witold attempts ...(展开全部)

In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both. A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the Year ‘Confirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction’ Observer After his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewicz – white-h...(展开全部)