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伊卡博德·克莱恩 (Ichabod Crane) 是一名教师，他来到断头谷幽谷的塔里镇 (Tarry Town)，从事教育年轻人的工作。他是一个容易上当受骗、容易激动的人，常常被当地人的鬼故事吓坏了，回家的路上他会匆匆穿过树林，边唱边唱歌来避免歇斯底里。直到有一天深夜，他发现也许它们不仅仅是故事。他身后骑着马的那个阴森恐怖的身影是什么？而它手中握有什么呢？为什么再也没有在断头谷见到克莱恩老师？ 该版本还包括华盛顿·欧文的其他短篇小说，包括瑞普·凡·温克尔。 Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and exci...(展开全部)

“从那个闹鬼的地区吹来的空气中弥漫着一种传染病； 它散发出一种梦想和幻想的氛围，感染着整片土地。” 这本充满灵感的散文、故事和素描集以《断头谷传奇》和《瑞普·范·温克尔》为特色，奠定了华盛顿·欧文作为美国重要作家之一的声誉。 欧文笔下的永恒人物，包括伊卡博德·克莱恩、瑞普·范·温克尔和无头黑森士兵，在这本出自美国独特文学之手之手的令人难忘的选集中，与 31 部同样大气、抒情的作品一起争夺空间。 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed fort...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hercule Poirot arrives at The Hollow for a weekend luncheon just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the body of her husband. It seems obvious that she has killed her wayward spouse, but Poirot doesn't believe things are that simple. What does Christow's death have to do with his current and former lovers, both of whom are nearby? What secre...(展开全部)

It's Agatha Christie at her best as a weekend house party becomes a crime scene for special guest Hercule Poirot.

作者：塞缪尔·韦伯（Samuel Weber） 加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校英语教授，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校巴黎批判理论项目主任。在他的许多著作中，有《组织与诠释》（1987）和《大众传媒：形式、技术、媒体》（1996）。 译者：郭侃俊 清华大学外语系文学硕士，曾任北京科技大学外国语学院副院长、国际处处长，现任职于北京师范大学。译有《1848年欧洲革命》《电影创造美国：美国电影文化史》《看电影的艺术》等书。

Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the drea...(展开全部)

When the Outland People abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. ...(展开全部)

When the Outland People abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. ...(展开全部)

He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found everyone dead--massacred by slavers who had stolen the women to sell for gold. Rowena was among the missing. Armed with only his p...(展开全部)