“阿加莎？克里斯蒂经典侦探作品集”丛书，是英国柯林斯出版公司精选的阿加莎？克里斯蒂的经典作品，由英国语言和文学专家专门为世界各地母语非英语的读者改编设计，每篇小说经过适当删减，其中的词汇和语法也做了简化，是适合中等以上英语水平读者学习的英语读物。书中印有二维码可在线听音频，由英国本土人士录制，声情并茂地再现精彩的故事内容。另，本丛书可配点读笔(需单独购买)。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》为阿加莎？克里斯蒂的 部侦探小说，奠定了大侦探波洛的人物基础。故事情节：斯泰尔斯庄园的女主人英格尔索普太太掌管着财政大权。某日凌晨，她在自己的房间里毒发身亡，而房间的三个门都是从里面锁上的。侦探波洛在调查此案的过程中发现了一系列疑点，但 的疑犯——英格尔索普太太的丈夫却有不在场的证据。 让波洛感到头痛的是，
The best science fiction must be consistent with science fact. With the blockbuster status of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World (LJ 9/15/95), it is fair to ask, Could dinosaurs really be cloned from ancient DNA? DeSalle, an associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Lindley, an associate editor of Science News, do not have a definitive answer, but they do explore how it might possibly be done. The authors take a critical approach, questioning every premise and exposing presumptions. Copious references to events and characters in Crichton's books make familiarity with them a prerequisite. George and Roberta Poinar's Quest for Life in Amber (LJ 9/14/94) would be a better choice for anybody who hasn't read the book or seen the movie. Still, this book will benefit greatly from the tie-in to the forthcoming release of the film version of The Lost World and will be in demand at public libraries.?Gregg Sapp, Univ. of Miami Lib.
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.
A collection of seven tales taken from the "Father Brown" books. Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, belie an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind. 作者简介： G.K. Chesterton(1874-1936).A man of many literary talents,among his works are novels,short stories,poems,essays and biographies.He is also remembered for his skills as an orator and wit and for his mastery of the paradox and the pun. Father Brown fist appeared in "The Bule Cross"printed in the Storyteller in 1910 and reprinted the next year in the innocence of Father brown.This collection of stories was followed by several others,all featuring the inconspicuous priest whose subtle understanding of good and evill was to make him Chesterton's most popular creation.
When Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-nine Steps, is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders. In his strange odyssey to unravel the most sinister of conspiracies 'to defeat the allies in the West' he travels from an idyllic manor house in the Cotswolds to a provincial Garden City where pacifism is the order of the day, through Scotland and London under attack, and thence back to the trenches, and the greatest battle of the First World War. There, amid the devastation and the squalor, he finds both love and a horrifying glimpse of chemical warfare before the thrilling d noument in the skies above the battlefield.
