Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

高木彬光Takagi Akimitsu 日本推理小说大师，和横沟正史被并称为“本格推理的巅峰”。 高木彬光一九二〇年九月二十五日出生于青森县青森市一个世代行医的家庭，幼时母亲去世。毕业于京都帝国大学工学部冶金科，后进入中岛飞机公司工作，日本战败后因公司倒闭而失业。 一九四八年，高木彬光发表了推理处女作《刺青杀人事件》，得到江户川乱步赏识，开始了作为职业作家的创作之路。一九五〇年创作的《能面杀人事件》获得了第三届日本推理作家俱乐部奖，一举奠定了其本格推理大师的地位。其后陆续创作了《诅咒之家》、《人偶为何被杀》、《成吉思汗的秘密》、《邪马台国的秘密》等本格推理小说。这些作品至今依然雄踞日本各大本格推理小说榜单前列。高木彬光着力塑造的主人公神津恭介，也成为和横沟正史笔下的金田一耕助齐名的“日本本格推理两大名侦探”。高木彬光后期创作风格有所转变，在注重本格性...(展开全部)

The Mask of Sanity is a book written by Hervey Cleckley, M.D., first published in 1941, describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today.[1] The title refers...(展开全部)

高木彬光Takagi Akimitsu 日本推理小说大师，和横沟正史被并称为“本格推理的巅峰”。 高木彬光一九二〇年九月二十五日出生于青森县青森市一个世代行医的家庭，幼时母亲去世。毕业于京都帝国大学工学部冶金科，后进入中岛飞机公司工作，日本战败后因公司倒闭而失业。 一九四八年，高木彬光发表了推理处女作《刺青杀人事件》，得到江户川乱步赏识，开始了作为职业作家的创作之路。一九五〇年创作的《能面杀人事件》获得了第三届日本推理作家俱乐部奖，一举奠定了其本格推理大师的地位。其后陆续创作了《诅咒之家》、《人偶为何被杀》、《成吉思汗的秘密》、《邪马台国的秘密》等本格推理小说。这些作品至今依然雄踞日本各大本格推理小说榜单前列。高木彬光着力塑造的主人公神津恭介，也成为和横沟正史笔下的金田一耕助齐名的“日本本格推理两大名侦探”。高木彬光后期创作风格有所转变，在注重本格性...(展开全部)

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the...(展开全部)

A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a ';master of suspense' (Mary Higgins Clark). Between jobs and relationships, Manhattan illust

托瑪斯．埃羅伊．馬汀尼茲（Tomas Eloy Martinez） 1934出生於阿根廷，是一位新聞工作者、教授和得獎小說家，在阿根廷高壓統治時避居委內瑞拉，1982年起在美國工作與居住。他是當今拉丁美洲文學兩部經典名著《裴隆小說》（La novela de Peron, 1985）和《聖艾薇塔》（Santa Evita, 1995）的作者，該作品已被譯成三十六種語言，於七十多個國家發行。2002年，馬汀尼茲的作品El vuelo de la reina在西班牙馬德里獲得Alfaguara Prize。他的上一本小說Santa Evita曾獲2005國際曼布克獎提名。 目前定居美國，任教於紐澤西州的羅格斯大學，擔任該校拉丁美洲研究課程主任。