In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York ...(展开全部)

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defy...(展开全部)

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defy...(展开全部)

作者簡介 凱薩琳‧艾登（Katherine Arden） 生於美國德州奧斯丁，曾在莫斯科短居兩年。她於明德學院主修法國和俄國文學，取得學士學位後搬到夏威夷茂宜島，做過各式各樣千奇百怪的工作，包括騎馬之旅導遊、國際旅客私人導遊、賣可麗餅和撰寫研究計畫等等。在島上生活一年後，飛到法國布里昂松一所高中教授英文一年。九個月後，重回茂宜島。目前她所有家當都收在一個箱子或旅行袋裡，生活則是結合了她最愛的兩件事：旅行和塗塗寫寫。現在住在佛州。 www.katherinearden.com 譯者簡介 穆卓芸 文字手工業者，譯有《焚城記》、《神秘森林》、《我想念我自己》、《企鵝的憂鬱》、《牠》等書。

Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie . Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live t...(展开全部)

作者简介 远藤周作（1923 - 1996），日本著名作家，文化勋章获得者。幼年皈依天主教，青年时期留学法国。其作品具有深刻的思想性，对哲学、宗教、社会、东西方关系有着深刻的思考，获得了芥川奖、谷崎润一郎奖在内的诸多奖项。 译者简介 黄真，江西省铜鼓县人，文学硕士。先后就读于北京外国语大学和北京大学，自2010年开始翻译日语文学作品，已译介东野圭吾、伊坂幸太郎、横沟正史等多个作家的数部作品。

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control. From the Inside Flap With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police ...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)