Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to huma...(展开全部)

Everyone's eating human meat. Would you? It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's g...(展开全部)

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Diver's troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the pr...(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。

《海上钢琴师》原著作者。1958年生于都灵。1991年，处女作《愤怒的城堡》获得意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖。1993年，《海洋，海》获得维多雷久文学奖和波斯克城堡文学奖。1994年，《丝绸》一出版便立刻登上意大利畅销榜，热潮迅疾燃烧整个欧洲，盘踞各国畅销榜单。 1998年，作品《海上钢琴师》被知名导演托纳多雷改编成电影。巴里科的作品，有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩着人类最为美好温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代，散发着无穷的魅力。他的非虚构作品《野蛮人》曾探讨了写作与数字化革命之间的关系。在新作《游戏世界》中，巴里科重新回到了这个话题，将他的视角扩大到数字革命对人文主义思想和文化的影响。

简介：冰冷机械室无尽的实验，痛苦难熬的心理教育，被迫走远的人性之路，异能的存在究竟是否给予肯定，我，是否曾以“人”的姿态降临于世？为何会如此，感情的缺失，希望的疑惑，无言的守护只为看到所谓的真实以及寻求存在的意义

By the American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Many of her experimental, stream-of-consciousness works such as Tender Buttons (1914) have since been interpreted by critics as a feminist reworking of patriarchal language. These works were loved by the avant-garde, but mainstream success initially remained elusive...(展开全部)

Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein’s strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques.

A seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, Tender Buttons was originally published in 1914 and is considered one of the great Modern experiments in verse. At one time or another it has been thought of as a masterpiece of Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax. Despite the fact that it was writte...(展开全部)

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)