Description (From the Publisher): The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi's death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help? Table Of Contents Chap...(展开全部)

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brinkof a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking itall for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi StatePrison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansmanand unrepentant racist now facing the death penaltyfor a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out ofchanc...(展开全部)

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brinkof a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking itall for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi StatePrison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansmanand unrepentant racist now facing the death penaltyfor a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out ofchanc...(展开全部)

From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious's mysteries...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter and haunt - strange nuggets from a writer whose wayward pen spills forth st...(展开全部)

安洁拉·卡特（Angela Carter,1940-1992），英国最具独创性的作家之一，书写风格混杂魔幻写实、歌德式、女性主义。曾获得切特南文学节奖、詹姆斯．泰特．布雷克纪念等奖项。 安洁拉·卡特的作品以幻想题材为主，糅合魔幻现实主义、女性主义、哥特风格和寓言色彩于一体，戏仿童话，重塑传奇，想象奇诡，语言瑰丽，于世界文坛独树一帜。她曾于1969年获毛姆奖，1983年担任布克奖评委。《时代》周刊将其誉为二十世纪最杰出的作家之一。《焚舟纪》是其短篇小说全集。 安洁拉愠祓蹲1940年在英国伊斯特本（Eastbourne）出生。二十岁结婚，在克逻伊登广告（Croydon Advertise）工作，并在布里斯托尔（Bristol）大学英国文学系进修。1969年离婚，迁居日本两年。 1976 至78年，她成为大不列颠艺术协会研究员，在谢菲尔德大学开设写作课程，...(展开全部)

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

在线阅读本书 Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems b...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems b...(展开全部)

In the middle ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the eighteenth century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault sho...(展开全部)