Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warp...(展开全部)

The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide. Behind it ...(展开全部)

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter’s work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter inven...(展开全部)

作者简介 埃德蒙•戈登（Edmund Gordon），生于1982年。曾在都柏林圣三一学院学习哲学，后在伦敦大学学院攻读文学，从2011年起在伦敦国王学院教授创意写作。他是《泰晤士报文学副刊》和《伦敦书评》的定期撰稿人，也常为《卫报》《观察者报》和《星期日泰晤士报》等全国发行的报纸供稿。 译者简介 晓风，都柏林圣三一学院爱尔兰文学方向硕士，热爱把有趣的故事用中文呈现出来的成就感。译著有《作家们》。

Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastic and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as modern and as unconventional as anything in her fiction. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne in ...(展开全部)

格雷格•凯斯，美国幻想小说作家，他的全球畅销书包括《星际穿越》、“白骨与荆棘之王”四部曲、“古巴比伦第五军团”三部曲等，他还是电影《星球大战》的编剧之一。

David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passio...(展开全部)

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supre...(展开全部)

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life....(展开全部)

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