本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
七万年前，原始人类在濒临灭绝的严峻情况下勉强幸存，七万年后，拥有先进文明与高端科技的人类又再一次面临灭绝危机……瘟疫虽然有了最终的解药，伊麻里组织却依旧进逼着全世界，阿瑞斯更是引爆了遍布在南极洲周围的水雷，融化的古代冰层形成一场大洪水，迅速侵袭世界各地。此时，凯特跟大卫收到一组来自外层空间的加密信号，他们知道这段信号是阻止伊麻里的关键，必须尽快解开密码，于是，一行人穿过传送门来到了亚特兰蒂斯的烽火系统……随着亚特兰蒂斯记忆拼图的逐渐完成，人类世界起源的面纱即将揭开，过去与现在相互角力，的结局，人类将何去何从？
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city.He takes the trainthrough the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan tomeet with a geisha he believes he loves.Beautiful and innocent,Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha and lives alife of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura - theirlove offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle,reflecting in Kawabata'sexact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understatedpassion of the young Japanese couple.
本书主要内容：约翰23岁时，高中毕业便不再升学，终日不知所以地换了一份又一份工作，惶惶然地在酒吧饮酒作乐度过，恋情不断却未见真爱。直到有一天，他毅然投效军旅，并于放假回家时，在家乡的艳阳下、沙滩上，偶然结识正值花样年华的莎文娜。21岁的莎文娜，成长背景与约翰相去甚远，不同于约翰的放浪形骸，她单纯、善良、率真，有坚定的理念与信仰，有清楚而明确的目标。透过莎文娜，约翰重新认识了自己，也重新认识了爱情。甜蜜的相处时光总是短暂，约翰必须回到军队，甚至被派驻海外。时间一天又一天地过去，这段靠书信维系、偶而得以见上一面的远距离恋情，终因莎文娜的一封分手信而划下句点。陷入心碎绝境的约翰，没有立刻打电话给莎文娜，也没有立刻飞回家乡，只是把信折好放回信封，决定去哪里都带着它，像是带着上战场所
William J. Mann, author of the bestselling Kate: The WomanWho Was Hepburn, has now turned his attention to ElizabethTaylor, the quintessential movie star, and uses her biography toreveal the machinations of stardom and fame, from the studio era ofHollywood through the 1970s. How to Be a Movie Star isa totally fresh, brilliantly researched, and reported portrait ofElizabeth Taylor, as she became our first superstar. It isalso a fascinating revelation of cadre that got her there, from hermother to her managers, publicists, gossip columnists, and earlypaparazzi--and, not least of all, herself. Swathed in mink, sailing aboard her yachts, discarding husbandsnearly as frequently as she changed diamond earrings, Taylordominated the headlines for three glittering decades, rewritingrules, defying conventions, laying down the yardstick by whichcelebrity has been measured ever since. Focusing on the mostglamorous period in Taylor's career, Mann takes us inside herprivileged childhood in England to her schooling
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered by threesavage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into thedepths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated tobecome the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agentMichael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discoversthat his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himselfis once again in the crosshairs of a killer known as October, oneof the most merciless assassins the world has ever known...
"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling eventsthat led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white andnaked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornishcoast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived atthis immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life ofthe first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but neverforgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready tobe worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal.And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart,the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate ofRebecca...for the secrets of Manderley. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Romance and magic meet by the light of the moon in thisall-new all-star collection of Celtic tales from #1 "New YorkTimes" bestselling author Nora Roberts and "New York Times"bestselling authors Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and MarianneWillman.
Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic,beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol ofEngland and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.
This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his Queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.
Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro
From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fictionof the great Russian-Jewish writer One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentiethcentury, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict throughdisturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russiansociety. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as“Story of My Dovecote” and “First Love,” or depicting Jewishgangsters in his native Odessa, Babel’s eye for the comical laidbare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, “Red Cavalry,” set inthe Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction. Byturns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel’sbest-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age. “Amazing not only as literature but as biography.” —RichardBernstein, The New York Times “Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.” —James Wood, The New Republic
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances oftheir own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen.Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense andSensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, NorthangerAbbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Through her vivacious andspirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays Englishmiddle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and thenineteenth century began. Each of the novels is a love story and astory about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, forsocial status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, and wise,they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed.This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one ofEngland’s finest prose stylists of any century.
Former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is drawnback into the game to take on a cunning terrorist on one lastkilling spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part inGabriel's past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into aglobe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deeppersonal passions...
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friendProfessor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as aguinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in hisbiochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transportDick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14thcentury. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of SirHenry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. Ashis time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the dayshe must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently toget back into his world of centuries before ...
The last novel in the beloved Fairacre series finds Miss Readwith important decisions to make. Gradually worsening health forcesher to consider an early retirement. John Jenkins, a handsomenewcomer, competes for her affections with the newly widowed HenryMawne. However, Miss Read has more on her mind than men. Orphansliving in her former house have bolstered the village school'sroll, but these new students seem to be having problems with theiradoptive family. In the midst of all this turmoil, readers can restassured that FAREWELL TO FAIRACRE boasts all the elements they havecome to love: eccentric villagers, gentle humor, and a verdantrural landscape teeming with lambs, larks, and blackthornbushes.
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love fromafar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, heknows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorcedAmerican chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks sheis incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity forromantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she haspacked up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,”as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in whichthey met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena isoverwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its ritualsand customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens upits arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippicaviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takesthe tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to acandlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she andFernando, two disparate souls, build
