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?《葛剑雄文集四：南北西东》中收录葛剑雄发表的《北极日记》，重新修订《千年之交在天地之极：南极日记》《走非洲》《剑桥札记》《走近太阳：阿里考察记》。既是风景，更是人文历史；既是游历，更是思考与追问。随一名历史地理学者跋涉地球南北西东，领悟咫尺天涯。

1988年5月4日，是北大校庆九十周年。整个学校都在狂欢。晚上，我一个人在校园里游荡，碰上高年级的学姐易敏，她和几个作家班的学员在一起，我也跟他们一起去喝咖啡。其中有女诗人伊蕾。我早已听说过她的名字。第一次见到她人，在咖啡厅暗红的光里，我被她的脸震慑住了二十岁了，我还从未见过这样一张被磨损的女人的脸，那脸上有一种被痛苦、被屈辱、被岁月毁坏的无形的痕迹，有一种无意识的、不自觉的痛楚与冶荡。只可惜我当时太小，无法领略那张憔悴的脸上动人的美。相反，坐在她的对面，我替她害羞：她这样堂皇地坐在那里。

Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musicianwhen he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martinalready loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violinprodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before theyperished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer thanbrothers. But on the day he is to make his official debut, Dovidldisappears. Only 40 years later does Martin get his first clueabout what happened to him. In this ravishing novel of music and suspense, Norman Lebrechtunravels the strands of love, envy and exploitation that knotgeniuses to their admirers. In doing so he also evokes the fragilebubble of Jewish life in prewar London; the fearful carnival of theBlitz, and the gray new world that emerged from its ashes.Bristling with ideas, lambent with feeling, The Song ofNames is a masterful work of the imagination.

Here you will find the finest essays "judiciously selected fromcountless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The NewYorker and Harper's to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to thisyear's edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have "text andinner text, personal story and larger point, the thing you'resupposed to be paying attention to and some other thing you'rereally interested in." David Sedaris's quirky, hilarious account ofa childhood spent yearning for a home where history was properlyrespected is also a poignant rumination on surviving the passage oftime. In "The Ecstasy of Influence," Jonathan Lethem ponders theintriguing phenomenon of cryptomnesia: a person believes herself tobe creating something new but is really recalling similar,previously encountered work. Ariel Levy writes in "The LesbianBride's Handbook" of her efforts to plan a party that accuratelyreflects her lifestyle (which she notes is "not black-tie ") as sheconfronts head-on what it means to be married. And Lauren Sla

When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne,everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. Butwhen Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with talesof a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girlhidden within it, he has been changed forever. In his restlesssearch for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there,Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losingeverything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration andadult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries thereader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal ofdesperate friendship and vanished adolescence.

This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessingcalls collectively "Canopus in Argos: Archives." Presented as acompilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journalentries, this purports to be a general study of the planetShikasta-clearly the planet Earth-to be used by history students ofthe higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopianarchives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against oneanother, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar, anemissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives,visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants andthe biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit hetries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planetShammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos anddestruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards WorldWar III and annihilation.

Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrence'sGerman wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her thirdhusband, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the story of ConstanceChatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to anaristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzedand impotent, has an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper. FrankKermode calls the book Lawrence's "great achievement" and Anais Nindescribes it as "artistically . . . his best novel." This ModernLibrary Paperback Classics edition includes the tran* of thejudge's decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowedthe novel to be published in the United States.

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" A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum ' because he could see no more." But to its residents thisderelict corner of Trinidad' s capital is a complete world, whereeverybody is quite different from everybody else. There' s Popo thecarpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build " the thing withouta name." There' s Man-man, who goes from running for public officeto staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bullywith glass tear ducts. There' s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrallto her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S.Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighborsconstruct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhoviancompassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed- butprecociously observant- neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a workof mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy andanarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.