本书囊括了作者全部的八篇小说,其中《O侯爵夫人》塑造一个敢于掌握自己命运,不受封建伦理观念束缚的女性的形象;《智利地震》以历史上一次大地震为背景,描写一对纯洁的青年情侣的悲惨遭遇,小说被认为是“灾难文学”的上乘之作;其他几篇也多颇具特色,情节紧张,语言精练。
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and fou...
Starring the Dragons Of The Aisling Grey, Guardian Novels Gabriel Tauhou, wyvern of the silver dragons, has found the one woman who can withstand his fire. Too bad May Northcott is already bound to a demon lord. But when the demon orders May to steal one of Gabrielas treasuresaan immensely important relic...
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, n...
This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are di...
Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.37signals products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals also dev...