his production suffers in two aspects: The story is weak, and the narration is routine, even listless. Despite a melodious voice and attractive British accent, Jenny Funnell has to struggle with sketchy, unmemorable characters and a heroine with a cutesy nickname, "Bundle," aka Lady Eileen Brent. sleuths are from her earliest works.) When researching the history of this book, I...(展开全部)

罗伯特·阿尔特（Roberto Arlt，1900—1942)，出身于阿根廷普鲁士移民家庭，成长于城市拥挤的廉租房。16岁离开家后，他当过书店职员、铁匠学徒、油漆工、焊工等，直至于布宜诺斯艾利斯《世界报》任职。作为一位记者，阿尔特描绘了布市丰富而生动的生活；作为一位发明家，他获得了防止女性丝袜滑落的专利。1942年，阿尔特因病去世，有《七个疯子》《喷火器》《愤怒的玩偶》《魔幻之爱》等小说和戏剧作品数部传世。 - 译者简介： 欧阳石晓，成都人，新加坡南洋理工大学工程系毕业，现居西班牙马德里。精通英语、西语，阿拉伯语研习中。译有胡安•加夫列尔•巴斯克斯《名誉》等。

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar (“If there’s one person in my country I feel close to, it’s Roberto Arlt”), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the...(展开全部)

Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal ; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing...(展开全部)

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan... dead... murder.' Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocki...(展开全部)

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts， Royal Holloway， University of London The product of more than a decade s continuous work (1598-1611)， Chapman s translation of Homer s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular， onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles， the great warrior， and his terrible wrath before ...(展开全部)

马歇尔·杰文斯是两位美国经济学家共同创作的笔名——维吉尼亚大学经济系“罗伯·泰勒讲座教授”肯尼斯·艾尔辛格（Kenneth G. Elzinga），以及三一大学（Trinity University）教授威廉·布瑞特（William Breit，1933-2011）。他们合著的系列推理小说包括《边际谋杀》（Murder at the Margin）、《致命的均衡》（The Fatal Equilibrium）、《夺命曲线》（A Deadly Indifference），以及《看不见的手》（The Mystery of the Invisible Hand）。 媒体评论 这是个引人入胜、构局严谨又充满趣味的悬疑故事，很难想象还有什么比这更愉快、更不费力的方法，可以吸收到充分的经济学知识。 ——米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman，诺贝尔经济...(展开全部)

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.“We Agatha Christie fans read her stories--and particularly her Poirot novels--because the mysteries are invariably equal parts...(展开全部)

“Anonymity is such a terribly strong position in which to entrench one’s self. To you I am Sheila Delaney – to me you are – an unknown quantity.” At the Hunt Ball in Westhampton, Sheila Delaney dances the night away with a stranger – a man who wanted only to be known as Mr X. At the end of the evening, he departs as mysteriously as he appeared. Months later, private investigato...(展开全部)

君主制度的国家似乎还存在公主，但是在这个时代，那种像游戏里亭亭玉立、纯真可爱的公主或者贤惠端庄、娴淑典雅又超凡脱俗的高贵公主真的还有吗？绝对没有，我开始也是这样想，但是，这几乎只有游戏里才会存在的公主，却在某一天突然按我家的门铃，啊哈，这...