Book Description Winner of the Pulizer Prize for Fiction The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened -- not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur -- but from its own arrogance...(展开全部)

There are books that enlarge the mind, there are books that enrich the soul, but rarely comes a book so beautifully-written and profound that it manages to do both -- ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees The most daring history book of the year ... told in the present tense with all the dash and flair of a novel. The research is faultless: we are immersed ... it b...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

《死者》是爱尔兰知名作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯短篇小说代表作。 知识分子加布里埃尔在圣诞宴会后，因妻子格丽塔追忆病逝的旧情人而陷入精神顿。 结尾“整个爱尔兰都在下雪”的意象，将个人情感危机升华为对生死、爱情与民族命运的沉思，雪覆盖生者与死者的画面成为现代主义文学经典场景。

秋吉理香子，日本推理界炙手可热的新生代推理作家，毕业于早稻田大学文学系，获得美国罗耀拉玛丽蒙特大学电影电视制作硕士学位。2008年以《雪花》荣获第三届“Yahoo!日本文学奖”，2009年以收录该得奖作品的同名短篇小说集《雪花》正式踏入文坛。《暗黑女子》和《亡者在放学后归来》是她的两部长篇小说代表作。

秋吉理香子，日本推理界炙手可热的新生代推理作家，毕业于早稻田大学文学系，获得美国罗耀拉玛丽蒙特大学电影电视制作硕士学位。2008年以《雪花》荣获第三届“Yahoo!日本文学奖”，2009年以收录该得奖作品的同名短篇小说集《雪花》正式踏入文坛。《暗黑女子》和《亡者在放学后归来》是她的两部长篇小说代表作。

The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fiction...(展开全部)

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A #1 national bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people’s futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone—a “compulsive page-turner” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people’s futures...(展开全部)