Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent inv
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous cour
In 1461, the mysterious enigmatic Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing f
Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike's most beloved characters. Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, c
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 A domineering old woman dies in a Cotswold village. Her death "releases" her two middle-aged unmarried children - a spinster librarian and a nature-loving schoolmaste
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last wee
When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts,
The complete Blackadder scripts by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd. Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appearance on our screens. Comedy has never been the
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous lette
Why worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous - artificial 'needs' created by high-pressure advertising? Why begrudge expenditure on vital public works while ignori
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxi
Zorin steals the sword of Zeus, King of the Gods, a sword which was made for him by Hephaestus, God of Fire. Hercules must find the sword before Zorin, and his evil forces, can take over the world. "P
'It seems to me that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford's protection than without it . . .' It is 1552 and the royal galley Dauphine, under the command of Francis Crawford of Lymond, sa
'The trouble about Mr Crawford is that he puts up with his enemies and plays merry hell with his friends' Summer, 1551, and Francis Crawford of Lymond is in Malta to assist the Knights of St John de
Francis Crawford of Lymond, and outlawed rebel, is in Edinburgh again ...and his arrival in Scotland ignites a series of explosive events. Against a background of political intrigue and violence, Lymo
While Philip Pullman's greatest popularity is as a creator of novel-length magical realism for young adults, such as The Golden Compass, he continues to explore and stretch the limits of other childre
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 January 1474, and Niccolo has been shunned by all who know him after revelations of his murderous mischief-making. But Niccolo's talents are too great to be squandered
Interest in world music is at its peak. Listening to non-Western music in concerts and on radio, television, and CDs has become an important part of our musical experience, yet the general tendency is
The pleasures of Victorian poetry lie in its multitude of lyric and dramatic voices and, above all, in its rhythmic power and subtlety. Nowhere else can these reading pleasures be better enjoyed than
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its tr
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)1941. The Imperial Japanese Army invades Hong Kong. All Europeans are rounded up and imprisoned. But one boy slips the net . . . Nicholas Holford is smuggled to the mainla
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製Adam's father is in hospital, and Adam has set off by bike to visit him. Adam's bike is an old-fashioned one, without gears, or mud-guards, or efficient brakes. To take
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)The reclusive Dorothea's closest relatives are her dead husband's cousin, Kitty, and her husband. When Kitty's grandaughter comes to London to marry, Dorothea provides a ro
Swearing in the English language has a long history that encompasses a rich variety of modes, including heroic oaths, sacred undertakings, profane and blasphemous curses, taboo insults charged with se
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Schiller was profoundly shaken by the failure of the French Revolution and devoted many of his greatest works to debating the true nature of freedom. Here, in scenes
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, the region has been the scene of fierce power struggles, injustice and tragic events - a situation which persists to this
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)A collection of 20 extremely short stories for intermediate students in English, covering a wide variety of genre from comedy to adventure and set in countries such as Chin
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This is the third adventure of the unlikely space heroes of the cult TV hit Red Dwarf – Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, Holly and the Cat – as they continue their epic journey through frontal-lobe-knotting re
A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with
Brand was Ibsen's first masterpiece, a poetic drama composed in 1865 and published to tremendous critical and popular acclaim. The unsparing vision of a priest driven by faith to risk and witness the
"How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?" When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted f
Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and
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Lister gazed out of the porthole and catalogues the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that ha
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)The Soviet Union collapsed twenty years ago, the KGB files have been opened, and other Communist crimes have been fully exposed. Yet there is still no evidence, apart from
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Accompanied by two additional plays, presents the classic drama about literature and reality in which six characters involved in their own family drama come to life a
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Written during the winter of 1929-30 and his last major work, Apocalypse is Lawrence's radical criticism of the political, religious and social structures that have sh
