These two gentlemen dedicated 20 years to collecting the best/worst, unintentionally appalling videotapes ever produced. The kind of thing that makes Ed the Duck look highbrow. This handsome compendium brings all the covers together into one place. 272 pages, nearly every page is full-color and ridiculous.

Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanael--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanael's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . .," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples. ""An Obscure Man" swarms with life. This...(展开全部)

The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. 　　Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "...(展开全部)

Winifred Watson 温妮弗瑞德·沃森（1906-2002） 长期居住在英国泰恩河畔的纽卡斯尔，因家道中落没进大学，为贴补家用做了打字员。沃森说过“我的雇主从没派给我什么工作，有天他让我带点毛线活儿来干，所以我在办公室里写完了整部小说”。她的第一部小说《四脚朝天》（Fell Top）就是在办公室里写出来的。小说放了一年，因为她妹妹看到一个出版商张贴的征稿广告而得以出版，后被改编为BBC广播剧。除了《派蒂格鲁小姐的大日子》，沃森的其他小说都是以乡村为背景。《派蒂格鲁小姐》1937年出版，在英国、澳大利亚和美国大获成功，并被翻译成法文在法国出版，二战开始时还计划在德国出版。在那时就打算翻拍成电影，由碧莉·伯克主演，却因战争之故泡汤。之后沃森结婚生子，那时她已出版了六部小说。佩塞芬妮出版社最初分别在2001年、2003年至2005年都出版过《派蒂...(展开全部)

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences—trail...(展开全部)

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family fr...(展开全部)

From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of one of Britain's most revered bands, Carl Barat has gone through the glass darkly as bands fell apart around him, friendships faltered and egos and hedonism threatened to pull his life apart. THREEPENNY MEMOIR tells his extraordi...(展开全部)

This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere. By follo...(展开全部)

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family fr...(展开全部)