"The most thrilling book I have ever read." -Kingsley Amis Part surrealistic comedy, part psychological thriller, G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday inventively unravels the nightmare of paradox and surprise to probe the mysteries of human behavior. The seven members of Europe's Central Anarchist Council, who, for reasons of security, call themselves by the name...(展开全部)

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, When Syme discov...(展开全部)

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The r...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn ...(展开全部)

雨果(1802-1885)，法国著名小说家、诗人。《笑面人》是他的主要长篇小说之一。

雨果(1802-1885)，法国著名小说家、诗人。《笑面人》是他的主要长篇小说之一。

史蒂文·凯洛格，1941年10月26日出生于美国康乃狄克州。他自幼就非常喜爱图画书，并受到彼得兔（Beatrix Potter）和N.C.Wyeth的作品的启蒙，对任何与动物有关的故事都爱不释手。奶奶教授给的他许多植物和动物的知识，让他对人们可能忽略的微小事物都抱持着欣赏的态度。童年时代，史蒂文·凯洛格经常被妹妹们缠着“在纸上讲故事”，于是他就拿起笔在纸上画下心里的故事，一直不停地说啊画啊，直到妹妹们已经坐不住了，或是被一张又一张画纸没过头顶。就读设计学校时，史蒂文·凯洛格凭借杰出的能力拿到奖学金前往意大利佛罗伦萨学习，累积了许多绘画的经验与创意。回到美国后，除了在大学任教，史蒂文也开始创作图画书，实现他用书说故事的梦想。 史蒂文·凯洛格是美国当代最畅销的图画书作家之一，其作品在美国畅行四十年，影响了两代人的童年。20世纪60年代至今，史蒂文·凯洛格...(展开全部)

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)