Review "We are, perhaps, after a century of literary wastelands, able to read not only a personal predicament but a general truth in Melville's blasted islands, bedevilled slave ships, misshapen houses, falling towers, ticking tables, ghastly factories, sickly cottages, and blank brick city walls. The appetite for truth is what gives Melville's narratives their persistent inter...(展开全部)

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.

Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, tha...(展开全部)

Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, tha...(展开全部)

H.P.洛夫克拉夫特（H. P. Lovecraft），美国著名恐怖、奇幻和科幻小说大师。洛夫克拉夫特的一生坎坷多难，1890年出生于美国，自幼体弱多病，又逢家庭破产，导致精神崩溃无法完成学业，父母的精神都出现失常，亲人的相继离世给他带来巨大打击，46岁时死于癌症。 洛 夫克拉夫特从小便展示出了惊人的文学天赋，他3岁时能够背诵诗歌，6岁时能够写作诗篇，7岁完成了小说《小玻璃瓶》。在短暂的一生中，洛夫克拉夫特创作了近80篇小说，开创了“克苏鲁神话体系”，但是在痛苦病逝之前，他没有出版过一本作品集，几乎没有任何名气。死后洛夫克拉夫特获誉无数，对后世文化产生了不可估量的影响，与爱伦•坡、安布罗斯•比尔斯并称为“美国三大恐怖小说家”，斯蒂芬•金也赞誉洛夫克拉夫特是“20世纪最伟大的作家”。代表作品有《克苏鲁的呼唤》《疯狂山脉》《敦威治恐怖事件》《异星之彩》等...(展开全部)

When Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a “triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey,” and thirty-one-year-old Quentin Tarantino, with just three feature films to his name, became a sensation: the next great American director. Nearly twenty years later, those who proclaimed Pulp Fiction an ins...(展开全部)

H.P.洛夫克拉夫特（H. P. Lovecraft），美国著名恐怖、奇幻和科幻小说大师。洛夫克拉夫特的一生坎坷多难，1890年出生于美国，自幼体弱多病，又逢家庭破产，导致精神崩溃无法完成学业，父母的精神都出现失常，亲人的相继离世给他带来巨大打击，46岁时死于癌症。 洛 夫克拉夫特从小便展示出了惊人的文学天赋，他3岁时能够背诵诗歌，6岁时能够写作诗篇，7岁完成了小说《小玻璃瓶》。在短暂的一生中，洛夫克拉夫特创作了近80篇小说，开创了“克苏鲁神话体系”，但是在痛苦病逝之前，他没有出版过一本作品集，几乎没有任何名气。死后洛夫克拉夫特获誉无数，对后世文化产生了不可估量的影响，与爱伦•坡、安布罗斯•比尔斯并称为“美国三大恐怖小说家”，斯蒂芬•金也赞誉洛夫克拉夫特是“20世纪最伟大的作家”。代表作品有《克苏鲁的呼唤》《疯狂山脉》《敦威治恐怖事件》《异星之彩》等...(展开全部)

（美）考德维纳•史密斯Cordwainer Smith（1913~1966） 享誉国际的科幻小说大师，国际上设立有“考德维纳•史密斯再发现奖”，用以表彰那些对科幻文学有特殊创新贡献的作家，相比一般科幻小说作家，考德维纳•史密斯二战期间在中国、法国、日本等国家都曾居住工作过，熟悉东西方文化，他的创作更蕴含东方哲学与反战思想。 幼时因父亲军人和外交官的职业，考德维纳接触了多种文化，能说六种语言，曾认孙中山先生为其教父，取中文名为林白乐。二战时，他受军方派任前往中国，发挥其外交专长。战后以上校的军衔荣归。然而，考德维纳最不为人知的身份便是科幻小说家，他并不多产，科幻作家的身份也是直到过世后才由女儿公开。 在科幻小说日益成熟、作品如雨后春笋不断涌出的年代，考德维纳·史密斯更偏向严肃的哲学与反思，最早于一九五○年发表的《审视者的徒劳人生》是“人类补完计划宇宙”...(展开全部)

The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who ...(展开全部)