《转型时代与幽暗意识》作为张灏教授的自选集，收入了他研究近现代中国思想史的一些代表性文章。全书分为“轴心时代”“幽暗意识”、“近代思想史上的转型时代”、“五四与大革命”、“传统与现代化”五个部分。该书讨论了中国思想史上的一些重要问题，如转型时代、幽暗意识与民主传统、儒家的经世思想和道德理想主义、关于五四思想的两歧性、二十世纪中国革命的起源等等，这些问题无一不与中国知识分子近二十年的思想焦点密切相关。
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
《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。
The literary event of the season: a new novel from Ian McEwan,as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best workis behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormousfees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientificinstitutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backedinitiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in hisprofessional life, Michael’s personal life is another matterentirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of hisinfidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife ishaving an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love withher. When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersectin unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise ofan invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him toextricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate hiscareer, and very possibly save the world from environmentaldisaster. Can a man
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most swiftly movingand unified of Charles Dickens's great novels, "Oliver Twist" isalso famous for its re-creation-through the splendidly realizedfigures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil BillSikes-of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves,prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickensto task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believableway, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered analternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned OliverTwist one of its author's most loved works. This edition reprintsthe original Everyman's introduction by G. K. Chesterton andincludes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.
"What makes his work great is that it can be felt andunderstood...by anybody," said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays,which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue,and an electrically charged atmosphere.
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romanticexpressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and redroses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful incommunicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in thefoster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and heronly connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go,Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through theflowers she chooses for them. But an unexpected encounter with amysterious stranger has her questioning what’s been missing in herlife. And when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from herpast, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for asecond chance at happiness.
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, JulianBarnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of thehuman condition: growing old. The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of theirlives–some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and othersstill with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied astheir responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversationsprovide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In today’s England, aretired army major heads into the city for his regimentaldinner–and his annual appointment with a professional lady namedBabs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments)her ailing husband by reading him recipes. In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it oneway or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever,and profound–a writer of astonishing powers of empathy andinvention.
andquot; My intention is to portray a truly beautifulsoul.andquot; -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstancesbesetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, thedeath of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a secondmasterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime andPunishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust intothe heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexualconquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon findshimself at the center of a violent love triangle in which anotorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for hisaffections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin'smoral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left byhuman misery to find andquot; man in man.andquot; The Idiot is aquintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complexpsyche of the Russian people. andquot; They call me a psychologist,andquot; wrote Dostoevsky. andquot; That is not true. I'm only arealist in
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached theheight of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette isBronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing evenJane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographicalLucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructorin a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, sheunexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as shewitnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome youngEnglishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This firstpain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy hastried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity anddisappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstintingvision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of themost insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness inEnglish literature.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) By 1854, when Hard Times waspublished, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer hadcome to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of Englishsociety, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times. aclassic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of Englandtown beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision -in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation atsocial injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which itsauthor enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organizedlife of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses atragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basketis being tossed by the wind, and in the attempt to save the child,a man is killed. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helpingto bring the balloon to safety. But unknown to Rose, somethingpasses between Parry and himself on that day--something that givesbirth to an obsession in Parry so powerful that it will test thelimits of Rose's beloved rationalism, threaten the love of hiswife, Clarissa, and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.Brilliant and compassionate, this is a novel of love, faith, andsuspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includeshis masterpiece, "Death in Venice," plus six of the author's shortstories: "Tristan," "Tonio Kroger," "Man and Dog: An Idyll," "Hourof Hardship," "Tobias Mindernickel," and "The Child Prodigy."
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of thetwentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitariansystem that provoked him into writing it has since passed intooblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in apolitical nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance andpower to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. InWinston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from anall-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendenciesapparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universalpredicament of the individual.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The story of the mysteriousindictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in FranzKafka's "The Trial" is one of the twentieth century's masterparables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life.Kafka's method-one that has influenced, in some way, almost everywriter of substance who followed him-was to render the absurd andthe terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperrealmatter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted tohis work a level of seriousness normally associated withcivilization's most cherished poems and religious texts. Translatedby Willa and Edwin Muir
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!
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by JohnBayley
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voiceof a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emergethe passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutalself-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn andiconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of thegreatest antiheroes in all literature. "Notes From Underground,"published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: itannounces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on amonumental scale in "Crime And Punishment," "The Idiot," and "TheBrothers Karamazov." And it remains to this day one of the mostsearingly honest and universal testaments to human despair everpenned. "The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of ourcentury...confirm the status of "Notes from Underground" as one ofthe most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of Europeanfiction."-from the Introduction by Donald Fanger
