在线阅读本书 In "The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved" (1892) and "The Well-Beloved" (1897), Hardy, writes two different versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed with the search for his ideal woman and sculpting the perfect figure of a naked Aphrodite.

The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks th...(展开全部)

Book Description Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928....(展开全部)

The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young prot g, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mis...(展开全部)

罗彼得·C.惠布罗（Peter C. Whybrow） 出生于英格兰，英国著名精神科医生，皇家精神病学院的创始成员和研究员，英国医学研究委员会科学工作者。曾任教于达特茅斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚大学，目前担任加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学与人类行为研究院主任，David Geffen医学院精神病及行为科学系主任，美国精神病协会会员，美国前沿科学协会会员，主要研究兴趣在于精神病学和神经科学对人类行为的影响。著有畅销书《美国狂热》（American Mania: When More Is Not Enough），该书获得2006年美国精神分析发展协会授予的Gradiva奖。

罗彼得·C.惠布罗（Peter C. Whybrow） 出生于英格兰，英国著名精神科医生，皇家精神病学院的创始成员和研究员，英国医学研究委员会科学工作者。曾任教于达特茅斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚大学，目前担任加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学与人类行为研究院主任，David Geffen医学院精神病及行为科学系主任，美国精神病协会会员，美国前沿科学协会会员，主要研究兴趣在于精神病学和神经科学对人类行为的影响。著有畅销书《美国狂热》（American Mania: When More Is Not Enough），该书获得2006年美国精神分析发展协会授予的Gradiva奖。

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the g...(展开全部)

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the g...(展开全部)

Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid -- all once as human as he. Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying ...(展开全部)

Midnight at the Well of Souls is the first book in the Well of Souls series by American author Jack L. Chalker, first published as a paperback in 1977. Over a million copies of the original printing were sold, and reprints have continued for decades. It came in #18 in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for best science fiction. ----------------------------------- Entered by a thousand u...(展开全部)