Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school...(展开全部)

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在线阅读本书 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school...(展开全部)

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenge...(展开全部)

Many books have been written about Japan's surrender in World War II, but the definitive story can only be told by the Japanese themselves. This brilliant reconstruction of the bitter hours preceding the surrender announcement of Emperor Hirohito is based on material compiled by the Pacific War Research Society, a panel of distinguished Japanese authors and journalists. In minu...(展开全部)

Many books have been written about Japan's surrender in World War II, but the definitive story can only be told by the Japanese themselves. This brilliant reconstruction of the bitter hours preceding the surrender announcement of Emperor Hirohito is based on material compiled by the Pacific War Research Society, a panel of distinguished Japanese authors and journalists. In minu...(展开全部)

路易士•艾伦（Louis Allen, 1922-1991），英国历史学家，以其对缅甸战役的权威研究闻名。年轻时在曼彻斯特大学和巴黎索邦大学接受教育，1941年12月加入海鹰步兵营，后被派到伦敦大学亚非研究学院（SOAS）接受日语训练。他在缅战时期任英方翻译专家与情报人员，战后深入参与对日军战俘的讯问。《日落落日》为艾伦代表作，基于丰富的一手资料和对日本历史文化的深刻洞察。其他著作包括 Japan: The Years of Triumph: From Feudal Isolation to Pacific Empire》（《日本：从封建孤立到太平洋帝国的岁月》），Singapore 1941-1942（《新加坡：1941-1942》），End Of the War in Asia（《亚洲战争的终结》）等。 -- 朱浤源 台湾大学政治学博士，英国剑桥...(展开全部)

康奈尔•伍尔里奇 Cornell Woolrich 一九零三年十二月四日诞生于纽约，悬疑小说大师、“黑色电影之父”，二十世纪二十年代在哥伦比亚大学时开始小说创作，视F.S.菲茨杰拉德为标杆。三十年代起转型尝试写作中短篇悬疑小说，四十年代起开始出版长篇作品，写出《后窗》、《深渊中的华尔兹》和《我嫁给了一个死人》等名作，成为推理界一代巨擘。 劳伦斯•布洛克 Lawrence Block 一九三八年六月二十四日生于纽约水牛城，当代美国冷硬派侦探小说大师，纽约犯罪行吟诗人。十九岁发表处女座《你不可错过》，之后将近五十年笔耕不辍，至今已有三十多部小说问世，“马修•斯卡德书系”、“雅贼书系”等为其赢得巨大声誉，获奖无数，被称为当代欧美侦探推理小说第一人。目前定居纽约。