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？
The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.
In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupery tells about the brave menwho piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguayto Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface byAndre Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others.It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother,a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.But these plays are not about fate,and not about irnoy.They are about character,choice and consequence.In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law ,and die for it ,rather than transgress the eternal ,unwritten laws of the gods.Oedipus the Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those qualities-pride,determination and belief in his own ablitities-which made him ruler in the first place.Finally,in Oedipus at Colonus,written late in Sophocles' life,the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation,but at a cost-a son who will die in battle against his country,and a daughter who will die burying her brother.
When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike couldnot get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, itportrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night ofdangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunningrevelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years.With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away ofsocial pretense, Newsweek keenly foresaw Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art-anexcoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks ofrecognition and dramatic fire that will be igniting Broadway forsome time to come."
Nora Roberts continues the romantic saga: the story of threewomen who shared a home and a childhood -- but grew to fulfilltheir own unique destinies.
**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
Jane Austen's debut in our award-winning graphic-coverseries. Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health,Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-attwenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell tobreak off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome navalcaptain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meetagain, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of herrejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen'slast completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged withthe heartache of missed opportunities.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill,Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from therest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into itand fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands inthe neighboring town are divided from their families, and carsexplode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where itcame from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, findshimself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper ownerJulia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, aselect-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big JimRennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horriblesecret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Domeitself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b
Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
This selection covers the full range of Kipling's shortstories throughout his career, with the subject matter ranging fromthe Indian to the occult and from animals to domestic comedy.
Peter Pan, the "boy who would not grow up," originally appearedas a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M.Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in KensingtonGardens . His later role as flying boy hero was brought to thestage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan , which openedin 1904 and became the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. In anarrative filled with vivid characters, epic battles, pirates,fairies, and fantastic imagination, Peter Pan’s adventures capturethe spirit of childhood— and of rebellion against the role ofadulthood in conventional society. This edition includes the novel and the stories, as well as anintroduction by eminent scholar Jack Zipes. Looking at the manbehind Peter Pan and sifting through the psychologicalinterpretations that have engaged many a critic, Zipes explores thelarger cultural and literary contexts in which we should appreciateBarrie’s enduring creation and shows why Peter Pan is a worknot for children but for adults seeking to reconnect
In Storybrooke, Maine, Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchardare friends and roommates. They're united in their mission to makelife better for Henry, Emma's young son, who has been raised byStorybrooke's vicious mayor, Regina Mills. Henry is convinced thatMary Margaret and Emma are more than just roommates, however. Hebelieves they're family-mother and daughter fairy-tale charactersexiled from their enchanted forest by an evil curse. And he'sright: Mary Margaret is Snow White, and Emma is her daughter. In this companion book to the hit ABC television show Once Upon ATime, Emma and Snow tell their own stories, in their own words, forthe first time. With Emma relating her time in Storybrooke and Snownarrating the events of fairytale land, present and future fans ofthe show will get a whole new look at their favorite characters andstories. Show de*ion from ABC: "From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers AdamHorowitz and Edward Kitsis, the show is a bold new
In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of hisbirth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents an intriguing new look at thisdistinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator JohnSzarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography atNew York's Museum of Modern Art, has painstakingly selected what heconsiders Adams' finest work and has attempted to find the singlebest photographic print of each. Szarkowski writes that "AnselAdams at 100 is the product of a thorough review of work thatAdams, at various times in his career, considered important. Itincludes many photographs that will be unfamiliar to lovers ofAdams' work, and a substantial number that will be new to Adamsscholars. The book is an attempt to identify that work on whichAdams' claim as an important modern artist must rest." Ansel Adamsat 100-the highly acclaimed international exhibition and the book,with Szarkowski's incisive critical essay-is the first seriouseffort since Adams' death in 1984 to reevaluate his achievement asan a
The ultimate battle between good and evil
In his debut novel， The Kite Runner， Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do。 He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country’s political turmoil--in this case， Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over。 And he does this on his first try。 The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir， the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul， and Hassan， the son of Amir’s father’s servant。 As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s， the boys are inseparable。 They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever， and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted。 Even after Amir and his father flee to America， Amir r
