夏尔·波德莱尔（Charles Baudelair, 1821-1867），法国诗人。作品有诗集《恶之花》和散文诗集《巴黎的忧郁》，另写有大量文学和美学论文。他被认为是使欧洲人的经验方式和写作方式发生重大变革的作家，他的美学理论在诗歌和艺术史上是一个重大转折点，是现代主义各流派灵感与理论的不尽泉源。

Takao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives and F on a recent language exam. Nakagawa is ...(展开全部)

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)

埃勒里·奎因(ELLERY QUEEN)是曼弗雷德·本宁顿·李(Manfred Bennington Lee，1905-1971)和弗雷德里克·丹奈(Frederic Dannay，1905-1982)这对表兄弟合作的笔名。是历史上最伟大的推理小说家之一。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里·奎因发表了数十部推理小说，其中最为有名、也最具代表性的便是“国名系列”了。奎因和他的“国名系列”小说早已成了推理小说史上的一个不可逾越的高峰。 1941年，奎因创办了《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》，按照他的话来说，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》是要将侦探小说从通俗文学提升为正统的文学形式。通过提供这样一个实践的场所来鼓励我们中间的人写出更好的作品，培养和发展更多新的作家。直至今日，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》仍是这一领域的翘楚。 由于对推理文学的巨大...(展开全部)

Stone (clinical psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) examines examples of violent crimes generally considered to be evil--for example, torture, murder (including serial, mass, and spree murder), and sexual sadism with murder--and categorizes each on a "gradations of evil" scale. He introduces his scale with a discussion of what is generally considered evil b...(展开全部)

埃勒里·奎因(ELLERY QUEEN)是曼弗雷德·本宁顿·李(Manfred Bennington Lee，1905-1971)和弗雷德里克·丹奈(Frederic Dannay，1905-1982)这对表兄弟合作的笔名。是历史上最伟大的推理小说家之一。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里·奎因发表了数十部推理小说，其中最为有名、也最具代表性的便是“国名系列”了。奎因和他的“国名系列”小说早已成了推理小说史上的一个不可逾越的高峰。 1941年，奎因创办了《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》，按照他的话来说，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》是要将侦探小说从通俗文学提升为正统的文学形式。通过提供这样一个实践的场所来鼓励我们中间的人写出更好的作品，培养和发展更多新的作家。直至今日，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》仍是这一领域的翘楚。 由于对推理文学的巨大...(展开全部)

罗贝托・波拉尼奥（Roberto Bolaño，1953—2003） 出生于智利，父亲是卡车司机和业余拳击手，母亲在学校教授数学和统计学。1968年全家移居墨西哥。1973年波拉尼奥再次回到智利投身社会主义革命却遭到逮捕，差点被杀害。逃回墨西哥后他和好友推动了融合超现实主义、达达主义以及街头剧场的“现实以下主义”（Infrarealism）运动，意图激发拉丁美洲年轻人对生活与文学的热爱。1977年他前往欧洲，最后在西班牙布拉瓦海岸结婚定居。2003年因为肝脏功能损坏，等不到器官移植而在巴塞罗那去世，年仅五十岁。 波拉尼奥近四十岁才开始写小说，作品数量却十分惊人，身后留下十部小说、四部短篇小说集以及三部诗集。1998年出版的《荒野侦探》在拉美文坛引起的轰动，不亚于三十年前《百年孤独》出版时的盛况。而其身后出版的《2666》更是引发欧美舆论压倒性好评，均...(展开全部)

Roberto Bolaño confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in A...(展开全部)

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)

Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical portrait of the criminal underground of Paris ...(展开全部)