Fabian is supervisor at the Louvre. He loves his job. He also loves Mathilde. When it comes time, she presents him to her family in their vast country house and not without some apprehension, as the Benion clan is a bit special. There’s her father, Louis, who heads since 1975 the family furniture company founded in 1947, and two brothers, Maxime and Joseph. They’re not bad guys...(展开全部)

Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist...(展开全部)

Author and political commentator Wright (The Wednesday Letters, coauthor with Glenn Beck of The Christmas Sweater) returns with another modern fable that wears its conservative values on its sleeve. Born on the side of the road to a dying teenager, John Bevan grew into happiness and safety on an idyllic Shenandoah Valley orchard, falling in love as a teenager, eventually marryi...(展开全部)

Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist...(展开全部)

恩古吉·瓦·提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家，生于利穆鲁一农民家庭。一九六四年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。一九六七年回国，在内罗毕大学任教，改英国文学系为非洲文学和语言系。一九七七年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚前总统阿拉普·莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。 他的作品还包括《孩子，你别哭》《一粒麦种》《血染的花瓣》《十字架上的魔鬼》等。恩古吉现居美国，在纽约大学任教并继续写作。

恩古吉·瓦·提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家，生于利穆鲁一农民家庭。一九六四年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。一九六七年回国，在内罗毕大学任教，改英国文学系为非洲文学和语言系。一九七七年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚前总统阿拉普·莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。 他的作品还包括《孩子，你别哭》《一粒麦种》《血染的花瓣》《十字架上的魔鬼》等。恩古吉现居美国，在纽约大学任教并继续写作。

埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen）是曼弗雷德•班宁顿•李（Manfred Bennington Lee 1905～1971）和弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay 1905～1982）这对表兄弟合用的笔名，美国推理小说代名词，他们堪称侦探推理小说史上承前启后的经典作家，开创了合作撰写推理小说成功的先例。埃勒里•奎因也是其小说中的主人公，其角色本身就是一位侦探小说作家兼超级侦探。年轻英俊的侦探埃勒里•奎因和他的父亲——纽约警察局的警官理查德•奎因是其大多数作品中的主要角色。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里•奎因发表了数十部推理小说。其中的9部“国名系列”作品和4部“悲剧系列”作品被认为是古典解谜推理小说最高水平的代表，是后人难以逾越的杰作。

埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen）是曼弗雷德•班宁顿•李（Manfred Bennington Lee 1905～1971）和弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay 1905～1982）这对表兄弟合用的笔名，美国推理小说代名词，他们堪称侦探推理小说史上承前启后的经典作家，开创了合作撰写推理小说成功的先例。埃勒里•奎因也是其小说中的主人公，其角色本身就是一位侦探小说作家兼超级侦探。年轻英俊的侦探埃勒里•奎因和他的父亲——纽约警察局的警官理查德•奎因是其大多数作品中的主要角色。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里•奎因发表了数十部推理小说。其中的9部“国名系列”作品和4部“悲剧系列”作品被认为是古典解谜推理小说最高水平的代表，是后人难以逾越的杰作。

Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (18431893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received one of the finest educations available in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico and rose to the highest political and cultural echelons of Mexico. One of the most f...(展开全部)

Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (18431893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received one of the finest educations available in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico and rose to the highest political and cultural echelons of Mexico. One of the most f...(展开全部)