Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

《The Haunting of Hill House》是美国著名女作家雪莉·杰克逊长篇小说代表作，是兰登书屋“现代文库”读者票选20世纪百大英文长篇小说之一，并获得美国国家图书奖提名。 希尔山庄是一个富豪留给两名女儿的遗产，然而，近百年来，却成了后代挥之不去的梦魇，无论是原屋主或后来搬入的房客都莫名惨死。这一切真如传言所说，全是恶灵搞的鬼？或是另有隐情？ 一位研究灵异现象的博士，决心揭开它的真相，征召了一男两女住进这栋住宅。但是才住进去没几天，他们便觉得不对劲。这栋大宅彷彿是活物，在在影响着他们的意志，其中最不寻常的，就是那间婴儿房…… 直到有一天，一个自称能与另一个世界对话的女人，准备入住那个房间，面对最可怖的敌人……

A colourful and charmingly illustrated non-fiction book for very small children, with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and farm animals to spot. Children can peep inside the hen house at sunrise in search of eggs, watch the cows being milked behind the big barn doors and spot the lambs frolicking in the fields. Little hands will love to lift the flaps to see the veg...(展开全部)

When Biscuit meets a little piglet, his new friend wants to follow him everywhere!

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)