Paperback: 880 pages Publisher: Vintage (Jan. 10 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307947173 ISBN-13: 978-0307947178 Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 4.3 x 20.3 cm Shipping Weight: 839 g Charles Dickens s most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story. David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his experiences into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers can fail to be touched by David s fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens poured so much of his own early life, form an enduring part of our literary leg
如果能回到过去,你会改变什么? 在东京的一条小巷子里,有一家咖啡馆,一百多年来,那里一直供应精心烹制的咖啡。不过,这家咖啡店还为顾客提供一次犭虫特的体验:一次回到过去的机会。 《咖啡变冷之前》讲述了四个来访者的故事,他们每个人都希望利用咖啡馆提供的时间旅行机会,以便:直面离开他们的男人,收到被早发性阿尔茨海默氏病夺去记忆的丈夫的一封信;见姐姐的*后一面,以及去见他们从未有机会认识的女儿。 然而,这趟回到过去的旅程并非没有风险:顾客必须坐在特定的座位上,他们不能离开咖啡馆,*后,他们必须在咖啡变冷之前回到现在 川口俊一(Toshikazu Kawaguchi)的这个优美动人的故事 由Geoffrey Trousselot从日语翻译而来 探讨了一个老生常谈的问题:如果时光可以倒流,你会改变什么? 更重要的是,你想见谁,也许是*后一
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
小说讲述了少年辛克莱寻找通向自身之路的艰辛历程。出生并成长于 光明世界 的辛克莱,偶然发现截然不同的 另一个世界 ,那里的纷乱和黑暗,使他焦虑困惑,并陷入谎言带来的灾难之中。这时,一个名叫德米安的少年出现,将他带出沼泽地,从此他开始走向孤独寻找自我的前路。之后的若干年, 德米安 以不同的身份面目出现,在他每一次孤独寻找、艰难抉择的时候,成为他的引路人 Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older mentors, of who the titular Demian is the most charismatic, otherworldly and ultimately influential. Many have noted the influence of Jungian psychology upon this novel and it is fascinating to
When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is magnificient... like a fragment of nightmare... a dizzy climax of terror... the terrible spell of this book..." E.M. Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year. "Time and Tide" touched upon perhaps the most important facet of this book when it said, "It is not only a first-rate adventure but a parable of our times, " and articles on this and subsequent Golding novels have stressed these twin aspects of Golding: a consummate control of the novel form, and a superb all-encompassing vision of reality which communicates itself with a power reminiscent of Conrad.
An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as "Daddy-Long-Legs" are the two principals in this immensely popular modern-day fairy tale. Told through Judy's letters and illustrated by her own quaint drawings, DADDY-LONG-LEGS is a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.