The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. 《杀死一只知更鸟》讲述了再二十世纪三十年代,大萧条时期美国南部的一个小镇,三个孩子平静的生活被两桩冤案彻底打破。传闻与事实,坚强与软
With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners. Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship-and how far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams.
AgathaChristie’smostfamousmurdermystery,reissuedwithastrikingnewcoverdesignedtoappealtothelatestgenerationofAgathaChristiefansandbooklovers.Justaftermidnight,asnowdriftstopstheOrientExpressinitstracks.Theluxurioustrainissurprisinglyfullforthetimeoftheyear,butbythemorningitisonepassengerfewer.AnAmericantycoonliesdeadinhiscompartment,stabbedadozentimes,hisdoorlockedfromtheinside.Isolatedandwithakillerintheirmidst,detectiveHerculePoirotmustidentifythemurderer–incaseheorshedecidestostrikeagain.
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation - one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. 哈佛大学符号学家罗伯特·兰登意外受邀,于当晚前往华盛顿美国国会大厦做一个讲座。就在兰登到达的几分钟内
戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里,他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔,另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后,推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法,用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友,有时候是记者,有时候是助手或忠仆,但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径:他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用,甚至是重要的互补,没有对方彼此都不是完整的;他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙,比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项,就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑,在我们要读的
公元2012年10月11日,一次超高能量的强子对撞机实验引发了无人能够想象的后果。世界范围内,时间场被扭曲,每隔二十个小时,一切都会还原到10月11日早上6点47分的状态,除了人们的记忆之外。时间的循环无穷无尽,一个不可思议的新纪元由此开始。韩方,北京一名最普通的大学生,和朋友们一起经历了这个新纪元最初的震惊和灾难。在每况愈下的混乱局势中,他们必须设法自救。此后的世界被疯狂和愚昧所席卷,他们的生活分崩离析,在黑暗的时代中仍坚守着希望。经历种种劫难后,一个自称受到时间之神指引的神秘教派又在全球范围兴起,教主保罗似乎掌握了幕后真相,通过精心安排的计划把人类带向不可知的未来。当令人窒息的真相逐步揭开时,韩方发现,在这片时间的废墟上,他和一个神秘的少女竟然肩负着世界最后的希望,可他们将如何拯救这个
A classic anthology of short fiction by the acclaimed author gathers concise stories about New York City, confidence men, hoboes, the West, South America, and the American South, including such famed works as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room.". 欧亨利著名作家的短篇小说经典文集,包括《麦琪的礼物》和《带家具的出租屋》等经典小说。