An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplici...(展开全部)

1928. The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and a...(展开全部)

1928. The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and a...(展开全部)

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)

蒂亚•奥布莱特（1985- ） 7岁随家人离开战火纷乱的贝尔格莱德； 8岁在塞浦路斯写下第一篇故事，立志成为作家； 21岁已在《纽约客》《大西洋月刊》等顶级文学刊物发表短篇小说； 24岁入选《纽约客》“40岁以下最优秀的20名作家”、美国全国图书基金会“35岁以下最优秀的5名作家”； 25岁写下第一部长篇小说《老虎的妻子》，成为史上最年轻的奥兰治奖获得者。 译者：于是 知名作家、译者，著有《六翼天使》《一只黑猫的自闭症》等；译有《杜马岛》《失落的秘符》《橘子不是唯一的水果》等十多部文学作品。

约尼斯·艾吉 出生于内布拉斯加州，童年的大部分时光都在密苏里州的奥扎克湖附近度过。 其作品包括《纽约时报》年度瞩目好书《可爱的眼睛》和《陌生的天使》，以及新近的《梦的重量》。她曾在明尼苏达州圣保罗市圣凯瑟琳学院和安阿伯市密歇根大学执教多年。现居奥马哈北部，执教于内布拉斯加-林肯大学。

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)