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。
小说以主人公夏冲从4岁到31岁的经历、见闻为主要线索，时间跨度为1976年至2008年。 夏冲是一个对悲剧非常敏感的人，发现周围生活中到处是被忽略的悲剧，他的父母、少年时代的朋友等人都在各种悲剧之中，与传统悲剧不同的是，这些悲剧往往被看作是理所当然，不足为奇。小说叙述的半个爱情故事则是悲剧中的一抹暖色，女主人公戚敏与夏冲同样年轻、聪明，但更平静，也懂得安之若素。夏冲经历了三次“寂静”时期，他不清楚为什么生活如此平淡又令人激动，无论时代如何变化，这国家这生活都像一条龙，庞大、强力、野心勃勃，而主人公则像一只蝉，疏离、弱小、难以平静。当他到了成熟的年纪，成了一名律师，却仍受制于往日记忆，不得自由。2008年北京奥运会之前，中国已经成了一个崭新的国家，生活完全变了。这时夏冲回首往事，就像蝉发出了一
春秋乱世，她从乱坟岗重生，寄人篱下。她女扮男装，混迹于游侠之间，靠聪明才智和经商之才，成为流亡齐地的赵公子出的门客和姬妾。她爱财如命，见金子两眼放光。他则以打压她为乐，没收她的财源。 帷幔下，她以身相许，几多缱绻。她助他执掌赵国国政，一心为他。他则姬妾成群，另立她人为后。乱世争霸，她运筹帷幄，笑傲群雄。最终，她能否靠自己的才能让他一心一意，死心塌地？ 一对欢喜冤家，一场草根女与古代的情爱纠葛大戏，于春秋苍茫大地上，正在激情上演
米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个能
1941年，抗联战士庞天德所在的部队遭到日本关东军围剿，危急之下转入苏联境内与苏军联系。女教官娜塔莎负责对庞天德等人进行特工训练，她十分欣赏庞天德，两人渐渐萌生了深厚的爱情。之后，二人接到上级命令返回海东市从事地下工作……日本战败，日本人纪子的父亲跪求庞善祖收留重病在身的女儿，纪子寄养在庞天德家。父亲庞善祖希望儿子与纪子完婚，可庞天德心里只有娜塔莎，两人通信表达相思与爱意。新中国成立后，娜塔莎作为苏联专家到中国提供技术援助，两人终于再次见面。准备结婚登记之时，娜塔莎接到苏联专家撤离中国的命令。之后二人又经受了常年的别离和相思之苦。八十年代，庞天德做起了边境贸易，目的是寻找娜塔莎。经历重重磨难后，有情人终于相聚。
In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman haskept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acuteadventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the rawunderside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind.""Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPDhomicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from thepast that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions. TroyTurner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnappedand murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, diedviolently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed tosurvive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged ahaunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-onceagain-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comesto a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karmacaught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient yearsto dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities toStur
Roses link four novellas by four romance writers. The best isRoberts' powerful fairy tale of a kingdom imprisoned in ice andsnow that features a wounded hero from another land who appreciatesall that the young hardworking queen does for her people, evenrisking her own life to magically heal those who need it. MarianneWillman's story is about the daughter of a king hidden from theevil sorceress queen by means of an amulet forged with rose petals.Jill Gregory's tale is of a princess who, upon her twentiethbirthday, will lose the protection that has kept her hidden fromthe evil sorcerer who had slain her family. Her only hope ofsurviving is to marry a man with a magical sword. Ruth Ryan Langantells of a mute girl in war-torn Scotland and a wounded warrior. Aswith all collections, some stories will appeal more to some readersthan to others. Diana Tixier Herald。
The first part of the publishing phenomenon that has sold more than 3.5 million copies across Europe - now available in paperback. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
The Happiest Man in the World buoyantly describesseventy-four-year-old David Pearlman, a restless and migratorysoul, a mariner, a musician, a member of the Explorers Club and afriend of the San Francisco Beats, a former preacher and signpainter, a polymath, a pauper, and a football strategist for theRed Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation. When Pearlman was fifty, hewas bitten on the hand by a dog in Mexico and for two years got sosick that he thought he would die. When he recovered, he felt sodifferent that he decided he needed a new name. He began callinghimself Poppa Neutrino, after the itinerant particle that is sosmall it can hardly be detected. To Neutrino, the particlerepresents the elements of the hidden life that assert themselvesdiscreetly. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki, Neutrino is the only manever to build a raft from garbage he found on the streets of NewYork and sail it across the North Atlantic. The New York Daily News described the accomplishment as “the sailof the cent
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor takes center stage inbestseller Kellerman's elaborate, suspenseful, albeit improbable,thriller. Connor, who assisted Kellerman's main series detective,psychologist Alex Delaware, in 2003's A Cold Heart, proves anengaging protagonist, fully capable of carrying a story on her own.She's investigating a seemingly random drive-by shooting thatclaimed four teenage victims when a precocious 22-year-old graduatestudent intern, Isaac Gomez, presents her with evidence that aserial killer has struck on the same day, June 28, every year forthe past six years. Though his proof relies entirely on astatistical analysis he's performed, his unquestioned brillianceprompts Connor to do a little extracurricular digging that turns upsuggestive clues supporting Gomez's theory. Meanwhile, afterdoggedly pursuing even the slightest lead in the drive-by shootingcase, Connor suspects that one of the victims, perhaps the one whowasn't claimed by any next-of-kin, was deliberately targeted. While
As NYPD Lt. Eve Dallas races to find a serial killer, shebecomes very involved with one of the suspects. Her overpoweringfeelings for a man she barely knows could jeopardize herinvestigation, her faith in herself--and her life. J.D. Robb is thepseudonym for bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and agifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blindfrom an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed andangry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as anartist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a man. He hateshimself for becoming blind. But as he will ultimately discover, andas this remarkable memoir recounts, it is not the end of the world.It is the beginning. Ordinary Daylight This the story of Potok’s remarkable odyssey out of despair. Heattempts to come to terms with his condition: learning skills forthe newly blind, dealing with freakish encounters with the medicalestablishment, going to London for a promised cure through abizarre and painful “therapy” of bee stings. He wrestles with theanguish of knowing that his daughter has inherited the same diseasethat is stealing his own eyesight. And then, as he edges evercloser to complete blindness, there comes the day when herec
When sexy Nightkeeper Dez goes rogue, the bounty hunterenlisted to catch him is Reese, his former lover. The sexual energybetween them is hotter than ever-but the life-and-death stakesattached to the chase may pull them apart for good.
Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in theheart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America'spremier writer of psychological suspense, the author of tensuccessive New York Times bestsellers. Three months inparadise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delawarecan't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a reveredscientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk,has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers forpublication-- a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoya romantic interlude with Robin Castagna. Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnalvisitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures ofdeep blue water and white sand. The cases Moreland chooses to share--a patient driven to madnessby a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago toradiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutallymurdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach j
It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address--anaudiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream,followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: "Bad love. Badlove. Don't give me the bad love... ." For Alex Delaware the tapeis the first intimation that he is about to enter a livingnightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over aphone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling act of trespass andvandalism. He has become the target of a carefully orchestratedcampaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly building to acrescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness. Withthe help of his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex uncovers aseries of violent deaths that may follow a diabolical pattern. Andif he fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's mindgames, Alex will be the next to die. Taut, penetrating, terrifying,"Bad Love" is vintage Kellerman. Also available on BDD AudioCassette.
