约瑟夫•康拉德（Joseph Conrad，1857—1924），出生于波兰，20岁之前还不能流利地说英语，38岁时出版第一部小说，却被认为是用英语写作的作家中最伟大的小说家之一。他十七岁时前往马赛学习航海，在海上生活达二十余年，36岁时因为糟糕的健康和对写作的痴迷而放弃海上生活，开始专著于小说创作。康拉德一生共出版长、短篇作品四十余部，是英国现代小说的先行者之一。他的叙事风格和反英雄人物塑造影响了后世很多作家，包括D.H.劳伦斯、F.S.菲茨杰拉德、威廉•福克纳、欧内斯特•海明威、伊塔罗•卡尔维诺、加西亚•马尔克斯、V.S.奈保尔、J.M.库切等诸多文学大师。

'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appear...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author. Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the ...(展开全部)

When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent si...(展开全部)

From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of “real life” by writing a biography of a...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author. Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her ...(展开全部)

（英）麦克尔•莫斯利 医学博士 Dr. Michael Mosley 执业医师，BBC健康节目制作人，轻断食、轻健身瘦身革命发起人。2012年BBC播出其亲身参与的轻断食纪录片《进食、断食与长寿》（Eat，Fast and Live Longer），掀开了全球轻断食瘦身革命的序幕。之后，麦克尔•莫斯利不断思考轻断食如何结合运动保持瘦身效果的命题，最终推出轻健身方法，继续引爆新一代瘦身革命。荣获英国年度最佳医学记者殊荣。 （英）佩塔•比 Peta Bee 著名体育专家、健身教练，从业二十多年。协助麦克尔•莫斯利，从女性的角度阐述如何执行轻健身的生活建议，并成为“轻健身终身实践者”。

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki “Atime being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first pl...(展开全部)