主人公格罗佛是个十二岁的男孩，在打工休假时与姐姐偷溜进城，却不幸感染伤寒死去。小说讲述格罗佛死后，家人对他的记忆。 ……光来了又走、走了又来……一则故事，四个视角，四样落失之感，四种人生领悟。 此作结构精巧，探究亲密家人离世后，生者如何反刍记忆、怀抱失落，并在未来人生中安排一个位置给那已然落失者，让其继续活。 ……事情的发展 偏离我们当初设想的样子……然后又渐渐逝去，变得好像从未发生过……好像那些都只存在于我们的梦境……你现在听懂我的意思了没？……就好像那些都只是我们从别处听来的，都只是他人的遭遇……接下来，我们才会再度忆起事情的全貌。

一个人，把灵魂卖给了恶魔，能换取到什么？美色？力量？财富？权力？还是……美艳动人的梅杜莎女王、大陆被通缉的叛徒、还有邪恶的天才魔法师……所有的这些家伙，却聚集到了一个被认为是毫无天赋的废物身边。

Set during the French Revolution, this classic novel ofswashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also athoughtprovoking commentary on class, inequality, and theindividual's role in society-a story that has become RafaelSabatini's enduring legacy.

In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, ayoung Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreamsof wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing,filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in ajungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the"muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turnof the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of"wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, astory so shocking that it launched a government investigation,recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair isalso a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one ofthe most important -- and moving -- works in the literature ofsocial change. --This text refers to an alternate Mass MarketPaperback edition.

《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。

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing's shortfiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginningof her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France,the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect thethemes that have always characterized Lessing's work: the bedrockrealities of marriage and other relationships between men andwomen; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatenedby a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; thefate of women.

在线阅读本书 The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of"star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet andRomeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets andMontagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secretmeetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them towardtragedy. A masterwork that has long captured the hearts ofaudiences, this romantic tragedy has become part of the literaryheritage of all peoples in all nations.

Picking up where Henry IV, Part One left off after theBattle of Shrewsbury, Henry IV, Part Two is the story ofEngland's King Henry IV during his final months of life, hisreconciliation with his wayward heir, and his eventual death.

《萍水生风》是老五和白水两位作者的天作之合，图文互动。内容从品读《史记》、《金瓶梅》、到品读汪曾祺，再到品杂书、品杂事，一文一图，小品文配小品画，相映成趣。写者文字老辣，调侃中见深刻；画者风趣幽默，画面简洁却极其传神，如此珠联璧合，使本书知识性、可读性和收藏性兼具，颇值得向书友 。