We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on...(展开全部)

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

People of Darkness is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the fourth in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1980. This is the first novel in the series to feature Officer Jim Chee. The story is set in New Mexico, where Jim Chee takes a position at the Crownpoint, NM office of the Navajo Tribal Police. New crimes center around a...(展开全部)

After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth. There is peacebut it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst, deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empir...(展开全部)

厄休拉•勒古恩 ( Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929— 2018) 美国幻想文学大师、文学家，“奇幻小说三巨头”之一，被称为“科幻小说女王”。 厄休拉•勒古恩，一生获奖无数。她共获得6次雨果奖、6次星云奖、21次轨迹奖，还曾获美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖、卡夫卡奖、 号角书奖、纽伯瑞奖、小詹姆斯•提普翠奖等多项重量级奖项，更获得美国科幻奇幻作家协会“大师”称号、《洛杉矶时报》“罗伯特•基尔希终身成就奖”等荣誉。2000年，美国国会图书馆将她列为作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”。2014年，她获得美国文学杰出贡献奖。 西方文学评论家将她列为“美国经典作家”，日本作家村上春树也对她推崇备至。 勒古恩，一个明明是传奇，却不愿被称为“传奇”的作家。她说：“我讨厌被称为‘传奇’，我站在这里，是个有血有肉的人。”

The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". Set in the Highgate-Archway area of...(展开全部)

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his cha...(展开全部)