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

Roth's award-winning first book instantly established itsauthor's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, mercilessinsight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding ofhis characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman andpretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she ofsuburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into anaffair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it isabout love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories thatrange in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender andthat illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents andchildren and friends and neighbors in the American Jewishdiaspora.

The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone inEngland, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a storywhere past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan'sdevastation in the wake of World War II.

With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELYHUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literarysensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and itscompassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novelis considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece firstpublished by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is thedeaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various typesof misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearnsfor escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goesinsane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, thebook's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace inher music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation thatunderlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racialtensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettablestory that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and themistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet,in

Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of threenovels--previously published separately by Anchor--by NaguibMahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here isa collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes ofpost-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique,together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonantvision of modern life in the Middle East. The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In theaftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work andfamily to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail inpost-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blamesan unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himselfto destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility,isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who isone of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution inEgypt.

From the first tee to the nineteenth hole, here's a collection of above-par cartoons and comic strips featuring favorite cartoon characters on the links, in the rough, and out of luck when it comes to the game of golf!

They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach:Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving dayto day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, anupper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absentthough very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought themtogether, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart,Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wildwest -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . .Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the lateeighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with itscelebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence. "A tourde force . . . Spectacular." -- Time "Updike's novel, as tender asit is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . .Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press "From the Paperbackedition."

When this classic collection of stories first appeared in 1962, on the author s thirtieth birthday Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.

"Bah Humbug " That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels aboutChristmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Futuredecide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways.Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people whohave played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as theirjourney concludes, Scrooge is reminded of what it means to havelove in his heart, and what the true spirit of Christmas is allabout. A timeless story the whole family will enjoy "From the TradePaperback edition."

Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape hismother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part,struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreamsof prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off tofight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yatesportrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to hisheroic ideals. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettableportrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even aslife challenges them both.

Book De*ion Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, "The Painted Veil" isthe story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When herhusband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompanyhim to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled byher awakening conscience to reassess her life and to learn how tolove.

For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its ingloriousbanality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and whollymodern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincialhousewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe ina desperate love affair. A succA]s de scandale in its day, "MadameBovary" remains a powerful and arousing novel. Translated with anIntroduction by Geoffrey Wall New Preface by MichA]le Roberts

From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwan--a master ofcontemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prize-winningnational bestseller Amsterdam --an enchanting work of fictionthat appeals equally to children and adults. First published in England as a children's book, TheDaydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatestnovelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitelyinterlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortunereveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of hischildhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peterexperiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with thewise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant;encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out forrevenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with uselessobjects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makespeople vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside agrown-up body and embarks on the truly fantast

Newlyweds Jennifer and Matt really love each other. They never lived together before they were married-and so both were shocked to learn all the little things that go with living with one's spouse. Who knew that in his family, Saturdays were for tackling chores, while in her family Saturdays were for sleeping late? Now, two nice people from nice families are finding out that they do everything differently-and suddenly, they're in the ring with gloves on! Week by week, the fights take both of them by surprise-they never meant to be the kind of couple that acts this way. Simultaneously, though, Jennifer and Matt are building something strong, knocking down old walls of habit and finding the strong foundation of a love that will see them through.This is one year in a marriage-the beginning of a lifetime.

Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke'sbrilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of DuinoElegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essentialintroduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creativevisionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword bythe esteemed poet Mark Doty and a fresh new design, Poulin'srevered translation is certain to acquaint a new generation ofreaders with the works of Rilke.

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, TarBaby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. JadineChilds is a black fashion model with a white patron, a whiteboyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son isa black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires.As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from theCaribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all thenuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites,masters and servants, and men and women.

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times") V.S. Naipaultakes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprootedby the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in anisolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independentAfrican nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbingvision yet of what happens in a place caught between thedangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past andtraditions.

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, isconfronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-oldKate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifyingmoment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephenrealizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness andinsight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into thedark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child.Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging pathsas they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensifywith the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novelconcludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives fullrein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the WhitbreadPrize, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of thefinest writers of his generation.

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute.The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some ofMaugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance e Isabel whosechoice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, andElliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe hischaracters struggling with their fates.

This is a film tie-in edition of the massive word-of-mouth hit novel, first published by Fig Tree in 2009 - to accompany the major new film starring Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...

Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love andnostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officerpoised between his past and his future relives his first loveaffair.

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.

Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.