作者深入房地产行业内部，切身接触房产商、售楼小姐、房屋中介等不同环节的“迷人”规则，总结了几大不能相信：售楼小姐的嘴、媒体上的吹、定金会退、房源排队；还有关于房子价格表和销控表猫腻，房产中介的骗局等，无不让你生不如死还欲罢不能。 煤老板是一个特殊时期的群体，这个群体与二奶、悍马、伟哥、矿难等联系在一起。这个群体也长期被人们所诟病。煤老板迅速暴富，他们演绎着当代的传奇故事，成为了财富的象征。于是，围绕着煤老板，各色人等粉墨登场，贪官、假记者、黑社会、劫匪、殓尸工……上演了一幕幕当代社会的悲喜剧。 今年，随着煤炭资源重组，煤矿逐渐收为国有。此后，世间再无煤老板。
《十方一念》的内容简介：享誉华人世界的作词人林夕作品10×10首诗写下“有字天书”10×10帧图还原被遗忘的刹那感受当汉字的灵魂从流行音乐的旋律中挣脱，在文与图最玄妙的张力间，激发出三百二十万个将生即灭的灵光。
《中国经典原境界》是20世纪国学大师顾随以课堂讲授的方式传习人文、培育人才、启迪人生的之作，六十多年后首度问世。它以中国初始的经典为核心，精湛的学识与睿智的思想融会贯通，徜徉在经典内外，求索于历史上下，升华至理想境界。古今中西，文史哲禅，博大精深却又通俗而富有生气；情思文采，妙趣横生，学问的真与讲述的美珠联璧合有逼近心灵。经典流淌在中华文脉中、赓续在日常生活中，一脉相承的智慧生生不息，恒久的魅力令人心安。做人与读经相映成辉，修身与悟道相得益彰，怡情与治学水乳交融。在中国经典的人文关怀中，追寻古典文化原初的清纯精神，开启现实人生本真的至高境界。 《中国经典原境界》为《顾随讲坛实录》的下册。
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
《得未曾有》是作家安妮宝贝改笔名“庆山”后首次发表的全新散文集。新的笔名意味着状态和心境的变化，她如此解释道：“这次改名不代表安妮宝贝这个名字的消失。所有新的发生，建立于原先，而不是离开自己的过去。我选择了一个极为简单的名字。更多理解是在意会之中，因此无须解释太多。”? 新书《得未曾有》中讲述了她在长途旅行中与四个陌生人的相会和交集：? 一位爱作画也善于烹饪的厨子，倡导他的饮食方式；? 一位回归农村的摄影师，与妻儿相伴山居，礼敬故乡和大自然；? 一位年轻僧人，以诗歌以唐卡以修行以领悟，供奉信仰；? 一位以古法弹奏的老琴人，年过八旬，心守一事。? 她将看到的、听到的、感受到的一切细节，一切观点，均如实记录下来，将种种不同的个人观点、不同的生活方式、不同的生命形态，
《四时之诗：蒙曼品ZUI美唐诗》是著名隋唐史学者、中国诗词大会评委蒙曼老师讲解唐诗的作品，蒙曼老师带你重返大唐，品读ZUI美唐诗?。该书以古典24节气和现代节日为切入点，带领读者在四季时令中阅读精选的唐诗作品，品味唐诗的语言美、文学美，讲述文化典故、进入诗人心境。以此为主题精心编排修订32首诗文讲稿。这些诗围绕着四季的节气和节日，其实就是围绕着唐代的岁月轮回，围绕着唐人的生命轮回。希望在这轮回中看到他们——李白、杜甫、王维，更希望在这轮回中看到我们——你我和他（她）。我们和他们，古代和今天，传统和未来，就相遇在这如许美妙的四时之诗中。让我们和蒙曼老师一起，细细领略那穿越千年而来的风花雪月，和那历经千年而不朽的绣口锦心。
《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。
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhoodmemories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Yearwalks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. Inmeticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of acity under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions andpractices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry;and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides toremain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of eventswith an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps thegreatest account of a natural disaster ever written. This ModernLibrary Paperback Classic is set from the original editionpublished in 1722.
The author's observations on the great nineteenth-centuryRussian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, andTurgenev. "This volume... never once fails to instruct andstimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians"(Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by FredsonBowers; illustrations.
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives areexplored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike inthis wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all asRabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- findshis dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice.How he resolves -- or further complicates -- his problems, makesfor a novel of the first order
(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.
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the BerlinWall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of amarriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law ofBernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement beganalmost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep lovecould be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and Junecannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only tobe led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty yearsearlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating andirreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe inJeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination ofevil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality ofciviliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions thatboth create love and destroy it.
Spine-tingling and entertaining, "The Invisible Man" is ascience fiction classic-and a penetrating, unflinching look intothe heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novelwas as compelling as "a good gripping dream." But to generations ofreaders, the terrible and evil experiment of the dementedscientist, Griffin, has conveyed a chilling nightmare of believablehorror. An atmosphere of ever-increasing suspense begins with thearrival of a mysterious stranger at an English village inn andbuilds relentlessly to the stark terror of a victim pursued by amaniacal invisible man. The result is a masterwork: a dazzlingdisplay of the brilliant imagination, psychological insight, andliterary craftsmanship that made H. G. Wells one of the mostinfluential writers of his time.
Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the mostimportant writer ever to cross the boundary between one languageand another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English afterhis forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent inRussian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, hebridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously. Here,collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov alwayswished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse,presented next to the Russian originals. Here, also, are some ofhis notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With anintroduction by Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning biographyof Nabokov, "Verses and Versions" is a momentous and authoritativecontribution to Nabokov's published works.
Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novelsfrom the founding father of science fiction. The first great novelto imagine time travel, "The Time Machine" (1895) follows itsscientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finallyto Earth's last moments--and perhaps his own. The scientist whodiscovers how to transform himself in "The Invisible Man" (1897)will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored fromsociety and from his own sanity. "The War of the Worlds"(1898)--the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by OrsonWelles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently byseveral filmmakers--imagines a fierce race of Martians whodevastate Earth and feed on their human victims while theirvoracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.Here are three classic science fiction novels that, more than acentury after their original publication, show no sign of losingtheir grip on readers' imaginations.
Picking up where Henry IV, Part One left off after theBattle of Shrewsbury, Henry IV, Part Two is the story ofEngland's King Henry IV during his final months of life, hisreconciliation with his wayward heir, and his eventual death.
(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.
"The Moonstone is a page-turner, " writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "Itcatches one up and unfolds its amazing story through therecountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing andsingular." Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft,and murder inspired a hugely popular genre-the detective mystery.Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen froman Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovativeSergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, alovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers. ThisModern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871edition.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Mrs. Dalloway "chronicles aJune day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken upwith running minor errands in preparation for a party and that ispunctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she hasnever met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immenseresonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflictbetween death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers herdistinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925,"Mrs. Dalloway "is Woolf's first complete rendering of what shedescribed as the "luminous envelope" of consciousness: a dazzlingdisplay of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surfaceand darker depths of reality. This edition uses the text of theoriginal British publication of "Mrs. Dalloway," which includeschanges Woolf made that never appeared in the first or subsequentAmerican editions.
This is the story of an artist as an aging man, strugglingthrough the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro'sfirst novel.
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by JohnBayley
