A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal...A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious fr...(展开全部)

In this brief, elegant treatise, accessible to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekeland explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics.

In this stunning reassessment, Nicole T. C. Chiang argues that the famous Qianlong art collection is really ‘the collection of the imperial household in the Qianlong reign’. The distinction is significant because it strips away the modern, Eurocentric preconceptions that have led scholars to misconstrue the size of the collection, the role of nationalism in its formation, the d...(展开全部)

East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study, renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions in the East and West. An expanded version of the lectures he gave as part of the Alexander Lectures S...(展开全部)

The Unexpected Guest is a 1958 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. On a foggy night, Michael Starkwedder enters the home of the Warwicks through a window in the study. He finds the dead body of Richard Warwick, and finds Warwick's wife, Laura, holding a gun that supposedly killed him. Despite the murder being obvious, and overwhelming evidence pointing towards it, Starkwedder...(展开全部)

Ian Stewart 英国著名数学教育家，一直致力于推动数学知识走通俗易懂的道路。他在科学普及方面做出了巨大贡献，被授予英国皇家学会法拉第奖章，并于2001年加入了该 学会。他编著的科学书籍深受广大读者喜爱，包括《上帝掷骰子吗？》、《更平坦之地》、《给青年数学家的信》、《如何切蛋糕》、《数学万花筒：五光十色的数 学趣题和逸事》以及与特里•普拉切特合著的《碟形世界之科学》。目前任《新科学》期刊的数学顾问及华威大学数学系教授。

In this sensational chronicle, first published in 1958, Burgo Partridge (scion of Bloomsbury luminaries Ralph and Frances Partridge) coolly and with great erudition, tells the story of one of the most fascinating of social phenomena: the orgy.

The new book from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author.