What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a ma...(展开全部)

亚当•威廉姆斯（Adam Williams），中文名韦蔼德。英国小说家，商人，旅行探险家。出身香港洋行大班、香港赛马会会长之家，少年时期成长在日本，先在英国牛津大学主修英国文学，后在香港、台湾学习中文。先后做过水手、记者、中英商会会长，曾获英女王颁发大英帝国骑士勋章。除经商外，还极富冒险精神，曾组织骆驼探险队，深入塔克拉玛干沙漠寻找古城；2000年，又参加了古董车长途越野赛，从伦敦一路开到北京。现任有170年远东历史的英国怡和洋行驻中国大陆首席代表，二十年来一直在北京工作生活，是家族中第四代在中国生活的人。 已出版的小说有：以中国历史为背景的三部曲《慈禧的面子》《乾隆的骨头》《龙之尾》，还有一部《炼金术士之书》，均已被译成世界上15种主要语言出版。

Epic adventure, grand passion and historical intrigue in the bestselling tradition of Wilbur Smith

A group of foreigners in the provincial Chinese town of Shishan find the status quo upset when the young middle-class Helen Frances arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. But while she tries to resist betraying her solid but dull fiance, the Boxer rebellion threatens them all.

'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take up a job at a stunning mans...(展开全部)

'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take up a job at a stunning mans...(展开全部)

Before his 1959 breakthrough, "Naked Lunch," an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote "Junk," his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Har...(展开全部)