传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

《地球杀场》是一部英雄史诗般的科幻小说。故事发生在公元三千年的时候，地球已被外星入侵者——塞库洛统治了若干个世纪。塞库洛用毒气毁灭地球人类，对捕获到的幸存者施以暴虐；他们依靠庞大的星系矿业公司，主宰着银河系。 在洛基山脉的一个贫瘠荒凉的小山村，幸存的人类过着野蛮人的生活。乔尼·泰勒决定出走山庄，去寻找乐土，不幸落入塞库洛的魔爪。在其他幸存者：苏格兰人、中国人、俄国人的帮助之下，乔尼巧妙地与宇宙间邪恶势力周旋，并运用人类的智慧，战胜了塞库洛和别的企图瓜分地球的外星入侵者。

One of the most famous travel books ever written by anAmerican, here is an irreverent and incisive commentary on the "NewBarbarians'" encounter with the Old World. Twain's hilarious satireimpales with sharp wit both the chauvinist and thecosmopolitan.

The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, AHouse for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired byNaipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentiethcentury's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fightingagainst destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only toface a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to anotherafter the drowning death of his father, for which he isinadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he cancall home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family onwhom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on anarduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him andpurchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy ofmanners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s questfor autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspiresto attend university and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfillthe expectations of the two women he loves points to his finaltragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage andthe English class system, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictmentof Victorian society; the censure of this insightful book wasalmost without precedent in the history of English literature.

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana went from Harvard student tocommon seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journalsurvives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationshipbetween man and sea—and still rings true as a portrayal of man’sendurance.

Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations isas fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it wasfirst published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, theenergetic, cynical, and self-assured `nihilist' who repudiates theromanticism of his elders, shook Russian society. Indeed the imageof humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities andprejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any politicalor religious persuasion, and is especially potent in the modernera. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World'sClassics, is the first to draw on Turgenev's working manu*,which only came to light in 1988. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.

The master storyteller-in short form Famous for his novels, Hawthorne was first a short story writer.This collection includes his most powerful and penetrating stories,including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's BlackVeil."

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story ofthe young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexualmisadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents.Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity,young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzyingreversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vastlandscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the"golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic andvisionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in ahistorical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorowin his new foreword. "Kafka made his first novel from his ownmind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research datathat caught his eye were bent like light rays in a field ofgravity."

One man can be an island The classic tale of a man shipwrecked on a remote island, and hisstruggle to retain his humanity against the forces of nature, aswell as do battle with his own fears and loneliness.

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first Americandramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his playswith rich characterization and innovative language, taking theoutcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympianstruggles with themselves-and with destiny.

New package for Austen's brilliant satire of the gothicnovel A sly commentary on the power of literature and a warning forwomen about being too innocent, here is a fresh, funny novel of ayoung woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in herilluminating introduction, "intensive instruction in the ways ofthe world."

Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuringhis most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both animmortal love story and a political drama played out on a globalscale. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and generalreaders, these modern and accessible editions from the RoyalShakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literaturefor the twenty-first century.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his nativeRussian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literarycareer. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the worksof Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: thestory of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished e migre poetliving in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--abook very much like The Gift itself.

With a new introduction, this Signet Classicis the only available paperback edition of Camille, theinstantly-famous story of passion versus class that remains astimeless as love itself.

This novel's unsentimental evocation of childhood in theEnglish countryside stands as an enduring triumph; but equallymemorable are its portrayal of a narrow, tradition-bound society,its striking, superbly drawn heroine, Maggie Tulliver, and itsdramatic unfolding of tragic human destiny.

This short story collection draws a vivid portrait of Joyce'sDublin at the turn of the twentieth century, with rich imagery andcharacterization.

A sparkling love story set at a seaside resort-now in a newpackage When the man whose proposal she rejected returns from his longmilitary tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decisionshe made eight years ago-along with the man she's never stoppedloving.

The epic tale of Don Quixote and his faithful squire, SanchoPanza, and their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenthcentury Spain, form the basis of one of the great treasures ofWestern literature - a book that is both a hilarious satire of thechivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobilitycan be a form of madness. This brand-new, thoroughly moderntranslation, and the extensive introduction and footnotes, makeCervantes' masterpiece more delightful and accessible to Englishreaders than ever before.

This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful andhaunting fiction of his century" ( Kirkus Reviews ). And withhis special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, hepaved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.