These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection desp...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction feature...(展开全部)

雷·布拉德伯里（1920—2012），二十世纪最重要的美国作家之一，殿堂级科幻大师。他被视为“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域的最重要人物”，先后赢得了世界奇幻终身成就奖、甘道夫大师奖、布莱姆·斯托克终身成就奖、星云奖、美国国家图书基金会卓越成就奖、普利策特别褒扬奖等至高荣誉，获颁美国国家艺术勋章、法兰西艺术及文学司令勋章。 1920年出生于美国伊利诺伊州，1943年开始专职从事写作，布拉德伯里的代表作品有长篇小说《华氏451》、短篇小说集《火星编年史》等。布拉德伯里的作品文笔优美，富有诗意与哲思，属于极少数能改变人们思考方式的作家。他一生发表超过500部作品，包括短篇小说、长篇小说、剧本、诗歌，堪称想象力的杰出典范。 布拉德伯里的作品涵盖了科幻、奇幻、恐怖等各种类型，因对类型文学的杰出贡献，他在主流文学界引起了巨大反响，2004年，时任美国总统小布什为布...(展开全部)

'This is Francis writing at his very best' Evening Standard Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back. In Come to Grief he faces new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in deep affection. On the morning set for th...(展开全部)

简介：（很烂别看）本人第1次写文可能有点烂，希望大家见谅这里再提一句，本文是《changed：同人文》的前传林羽的人物传这里顺便再提一句，本人小学党，马上初中，更的很慢，大家见谅题目是作者用非常烂的英文拼写的，话本不给用空格qwq,只能用横线代替了

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perce...(展开全部)

The Washington Post calls Come to Paddington Fair “a masterpiece.” The death scene of a West End play goes horribly wrong in front of a matinee audience to which someone has invited a Scotland Yard inspector and his detective friend. But was the heroine shot by the stage gun fired by her jealous lover, or by the mystery man alone in a stage-side box? Apparently neither could ha...(展开全部)

德里克·史密斯（1927-2003），本名德里克·豪·史密斯，英国侦探小说作家、密室研究家。史密斯深受约翰·狄克森·卡尔的影响，创作了挑战不可能犯罪的长篇处女作《召唤恶魔》（1953），在许多密室书单上都可以见到其身影。但是，之后创作的长篇小说《致命舞台》和《雕塑家之死》一直未能在欧美正式出版，只有前者于1997年在日本私人出版，因数量稀少成为价格不菲的珍本书。直到2014年，史密斯三部作品英文版才在美国推出，同时中文版也与中国读者见面。