Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

Review Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book. (Frank Kermode New York Times Book Review ) Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of...(展开全部)

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

Review Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book. (Frank Kermode New York Times Book Review ) Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of...(展开全部)

《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to "the common reader." He possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children's games, war-time Britain, Hitler's bunker, and chivalry a...(展开全部)

Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to "the common reader." He possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children's games, war-time Britain, Hitler's bunker, and chivalry a...(展开全部)