A thrilling, wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery, in which a young editor travels to a remote village in the Mediterranean in the hopes of convincing a reclusive writer to republish his collection of detective stories, only to realize that there are greater mysteries beyond the pages of books. There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A det...(展开全部)

The Female Detective is the first novel in British fiction to feature a professional female detective. Written by Andrew Forrester, it was originally published in 1864. The protagonist is Miss Gladden, or 'G' as she is also known - the precursor to Miss Marple, Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. Miss Gladden's deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur ...(展开全部)

A thrilling, wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery, in which a young editor travels to a remote village in the Mediterranean in the hopes of convincing a reclusive writer to republish his collection of detective stories, only to realize that there are greater mysteries beyond the pages of books. There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A det...(展开全部)

扎克·邓达斯（Zach Dundas）是《波特兰月刊》（Portland Monthly ）的联合执行主编，资深记者，也是《叛逆的运动员》（The Renegade Sportsman）一书的作者。他是伦敦夏洛克·福尔摩斯社团和第欧根尼俱乐部的成员。

扎克·邓达斯（Zach Dundas）是《波特兰月刊》（Portland Monthly ）的联合执行主编，资深记者，也是《叛逆的运动员》（The Renegade Sportsman）一书的作者。他是伦敦夏洛克·福尔摩斯社团和第欧根尼俱乐部的成员。

[美]克莉丝汀·汉娜 1960年出生于美国南加州，曾在广告公司工作，也当过律师。可她心中始终记得母亲说过：“你将来注定要当作家的。”事实证明母亲的话永远是正确的。 现在，克里斯汀·汉娜已经是23本畅销书的作者，作品畅销全球50个国家和地区，全系列销量超过2000万册，被誉为美国当代小说天后。

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)

弗•司各特•菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", ...(展开全部)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.