'Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples'. Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the imag...(展开全部)

Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller "The Five Love Languages, " provides an easy-to-grasp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage relationship. A valuable resource for couples regardless of how long they've been married, this biblically based book is a reference tool to he...(展开全部)

盖瑞•查普曼博士（Dr. Gary Chapman）是《纽约时报》百万畅销书作者，享誉全球的婚恋辅导专家，具有丰富的辅导经验和专业的技巧指导，他的讲座和书籍改变了无数人的家庭生活。 他的代表作《爱的五种语言》曾长时间高居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首，全球热销400多万册。此外，他还著有《道歉的五种语言》、《愤怒，爱的另一面》、《爱语暖心田》等书籍。这些作品被翻译成数十种语言，畅销全球。 目前，查普曼博士担任美国婚姻与家庭机构总裁。他主持的广播节目《成长的婚姻》在100多家电台播出。无数人的家庭生活。

盖瑞•查普曼博士（Dr. Gary Chapman）是《纽约时报》百万畅销书作者，享誉全球的婚恋辅导专家，具有丰富的辅导经验和专业的技巧指导，他的讲座和书籍改变了无数人的家庭生活。 他的代表作《爱的五种语言》曾长时间高居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首，全球热销400多万册。此外，他还著有《道歉的五种语言》、《愤怒，爱的另一面》、《爱语暖心田》等书籍。这些作品被翻译成数十种语言，畅销全球。 目前，查普曼博士担任美国婚姻与家庭机构总裁。他主持的广播节目《成长的婚姻》在100多家电台播出。无数人的家庭生活。

'The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and t...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Matthew "Monk" Lewis published "The Monk" in 1796 when he was only 21. The novel follows the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a worthy Capuchin superior, who, tempted by Matilda, a young girl who has entered his monastery dressed as a boy, succumbs to murder, magic, incest and torture.

威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)，于1824年1月8日生于伦敦，1889年9月23日死在伦敦。父亲是个风景画家。他12岁时随父母迁居意大利，三年后回国，就读于海伯里私立寄宿学校，曾在茶叶公司工作，后改学法律，在伦敦林肯法学协会当过律师。1847年，父亲死后，他才开始以写作为生。第一部作品是《威廉·柯林斯》传，不久就从事小说创作。一开始成绩平平，后来他结识了当代文豪狄更斯，成为莫逆之交，并为狄更斯主编的，当时最风行的杂志经常撰稿。他的长篇小说往往在这本杂志上先发表，然后出单行本。这期间他写了不少小说，大都以侦破犯罪事件为题材，柯林斯即以此种小说蜚声社会，享誉30余年，但他作品虽多，而得以流传后世并得到肯定的仅有《月亮宝石》和成名作《白衣女人》两部。

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

"Marcovaldo" is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.