作者尼古拉斯·布莱克，1904年生于爱尔兰，英国牛津大学和剑桥大学教授，皇家文学协会副主席。主要作品以英国现代诗歌著称，并于1968年至1972年期间担任英国桂冠诗人。与此同时，还出版有20部侦探小说，是英国黄金时代侦探小说的代表性作家，其中以“奈杰尔·斯特雷奇威”为侦探主角的16部系列小说，囊括了黄金时代侦探小说的所有悬疑探案模式，文笔流畅，人物鲜明，被誉为西方犯罪小说的经典。一版再版，畅销不衰，并多次被改编成电影、电视剧，风靡一时。

Jessica has never liked cats, and now she's really sorry she brought home a skinny, ugly kitten, Worm. Jessica is sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. However, how can she explain what's happening, and who in the world will believe her?

Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what's happening? Witches. Jessica has re...(展开全部)

Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what's happening?Witches. Jessica has read...(展开全部)

More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, ...(展开全部)

谢尔登·所罗门（Sheldon Solomon） 杰夫·格林伯格（Jeff Greenberg） 汤姆·匹茨辛斯基（Tom Pyszczynski） 3位社会心理学家，分别在斯基德莫尔学院、亚利桑那大学、科罗拉多大学担任心理学教授。 他们在研究和写作上的合作已经延续30多年了。他们在对死亡的恐惧这一主题上的研究不但获过奖，还受到了美国自然科学基金的支持。在这一研究中，他们将存在主义思想融入现代心理科学当中，使用最尖端的科学研究方法来探索这一长期以来被认为超越了科学研究范畴的领域。不同角度的整合带来了一些新的思考方式，思考关于文化、自尊和引发人们做出他们最高贵和最卑鄙行为的那些因素。

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•鲍恩 Elizabeth Bowen，1899—1973 英国小说家，以其关于战时伦敦生活的小说而闻名。鲍恩于1899年出生于都柏林，中学时期就读肯特郡的唐屋中学。在伦敦艺术学校学习了一段时间后，她决定开始写作。1923年，出版短篇小说集《遭遇》（Encounters）。1937年，鲍恩成为爱尔兰文学院的一员。“二战”期间，鲍恩在伦敦的英国信息部工作，这段经历帮助她写出了关于战时伦敦生活最伟大的作品《炎热的一天》（In The Heat of the Day），1948年，她被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。 鲍恩一生创作了十部长篇小说、七十多个短篇小说，以及大量的文学评论和随笔。她的作品洞察入微，主要关注英格兰和爱尔兰中上阶层人群的情感和彼此之间的微妙关系。她早期创作的小说以机智和嘲弄著称，二十世纪三十年代之后的作品则表现出一种悲剧情感。...(展开全部)