在线阅读本书 The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shat...(展开全部)

All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true -- from the sweet, accommodating Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly fa...(展开全部)

艾拉·雷文（Ira Levin，1929—2007），美国著名小说家和剧作家，曾出版《死前之吻》、《罗斯玛丽的婴儿》、《完美的一天》和《巴西来的男孩》等七部小说，1978年创作的舞台剧《死亡陷阱》成为百老汇史上上演时间最长的惊悚剧。他曾三次获得美国推理作家协会爱伦•坡奖，包括2003年的终身大师奖。

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

The first ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of...(展开全部)

伯勒斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳（Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-1990）是20世纪后半叶最卓越、最著名的心理学家之一。他于1904年3月20日出生在宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎汉纳的一个中产阶级家庭。在斯金纳晚年回忆中，父母对其管教严格。父亲假期曾带他参观乡下的监狱，以体会行为不当会产生怎样的后果。在读中学时，他擅长文学，但科学成绩不佳。1922年，斯金纳进入汉密尔顿学院学习文学。大学毕业后，他投身于文学事业，但结果一事无成，还差一点因精神问题去看心理医生。后因受巴甫洛夫（Ivan Petrovich Pavlov）和华生（John Broadus Watson）等人著作的影响，决定转向行为主义心理学。他曾经指出，其科学生涯的一项指导原则就是巴甫洛夫的一句简单格言，即如果你控制了你的环境，你就会看到秩序。斯金纳于1928年进入哈佛大...(展开全部)

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