A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Onl...(展开全部)

多丽丝·莱辛，（1919.10.22- ）出生于伊朗，英国当代最重要的作家之一，被誉为继弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙之后最伟大的女性作家，多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名及多个世界级文学奖项，2007年诺贝尔文学奖得主暨第十一个获得诺奖的女作家。代表作有《青草在歌唱》、“暴力的孩子们”五部曲（《玛莎•奎斯特》等）、《金色笔记》、《好人恐怖分子》等。

多丽丝·莱辛，（1919.10.22- ）出生于伊朗，英国当代最重要的作家之一，被誉为继弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙之后最伟大的女性作家，多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名及多个世界级文学奖项，2007年诺贝尔文学奖得主暨第十一个获得诺奖的女作家。代表作有《青草在歌唱》、“暴力的孩子们”五部曲（《玛莎•奎斯特》等）、《金色笔记》、《好人恐怖分子》等。

The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of the intersection...(展开全部)

The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeare...(展开全部)

约翰·厄普代克一九三二年生于美国宾夕法尼亚州希灵顿。一九五四年毕业于哈佛学院，后在英国牛津的拉斯金绘画和艺术学校学习一年。一九五五至一九五七年间供职于《纽约客》杂志，自一九五七年起定居马萨诸塞州。厄普代克著有五十多部作品，其中包括短篇小说集、诗集和评论集。作品曾获美国国家图书奖、普利策奖、欧·亨利奖等奖项。

The terrorist of John Updike’s title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur’an as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jerse...(展开全部)

（美）A.R.托雷 原名亚历山德拉·托雷，《纽约时报》畅销书作家。著有二十多部小说，作品屡次入围Goodreads（好读网）“年度备受欢迎的悬疑小说”TOP10。迄今为止，作品已被翻译成十八种语言，在三十多个国家发行。 译者简介： 梁颂宇 青年译者，广西大学外国文学硕士。已出版译著有《生命的召唤》《寂静的春天》《无尽夏夜》等。

The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes the books Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner. Book Description Pearl S. Buck's epi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s last emperor. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant eve...(展开全部)