"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on "another" crime scene -- "after" she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, ...(展开全部)

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combine...(展开全部)

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos...(展开全部)

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lo...(展开全部)

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)―a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their c...(展开全部)