理查德·布劳提根（Richard Brautigan， 1935—1984），美国诗人、小说家，被认为是“美国第一位后现代主义小说家”和嬉皮士的精神偶像，代表作有《在美国钓鳟鱼》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。1984 年于加州家中自杀身亡。

Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. The monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. Richard Brautigan takes the reader on a heroic, magical adventure through Eastern Oregon. The Hawkline Monster confirms his place as one of the twentieth ...(展开全部)

理查德·布劳提根（Richard Brautigan， 1935—1984），美国诗人、小说家，被认为是“美国第一位后现代主义小说家”和嬉皮士的精神偶像，代表作有《在美国钓鳟鱼》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。1984 年于加州家中自杀身亡。

理查德·布劳提根（Richard Brautigan， 1935—1984），美国诗人、小说家，被认为是“美国第一位后现代主义小说家”和嬉皮士的精神偶像，代表作有《在美国钓鳟鱼》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。1984 年于加州家中自杀身亡。

At the height of the Victorian period, a craze for Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. In this exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic held for its many reinventors: from the political uses of Gothic ...(展开全部)

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, 'to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciti...(展开全部)

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night...(展开全部)

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night...(展开全部)

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night...(展开全部)