他沒有名字，他就叫守護者。 他在一家偵探社工作，他的老婆跟女兒早已經離開他，而他跟女兒之間唯一的連結就是一張有十五個八、九歲大女童的照片，其中一個是他的女兒。十多年來，他每天都看著那張照片，想知道到底哪一個是他的女兒。 在一次例行的跟蹤工作中，守護者遇見一位年輕貌美的絕色女子。第一眼看見她，他就全身發顫。她到底是不是她的女兒呢？守護者尾隨她，看著她闖下一連串禍事，他們跑遍美國各大州，沙漠、海洋、都市、鄉村，全走遍了，這趟跟蹤究竟何時才會抵達終點？她到底是不是他的女兒呢？守護者對她的迷戀已是不可自拔，她知道這個忠實守護者的存在嗎？ 英文?有一句話：「Beauty is in the eye of the beholder」，通常中譯為「情人眼?出西施」。不知道本書作者在醞釀英文書名時，靈感來源是否取材自這句話。書中男主角確...(展开全部)

The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the Regeneration trilogy. The Eye in the Door is set in London, beginning in mid-April, 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration. It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War late...(展开全部)

Written by the eminentGerman legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original andcompelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial ju...(展开全部)

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial ...(展开全部)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental exploration of the tides of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, impotence and l...(展开全部)

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial ...(展开全部)

Written by the eminentGerman legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original andcompelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial ju...(展开全部)

Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The Purloined Letter Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune to live o...(展开全部)

The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful...(展开全部)