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。
Book De*ion "Moves like a roller coaster without brakes...Koontz is America'sNo.1 author of thrillers. One of his finest novels." -------Denver Pos We have your wife. You can get her back for two millioncash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modestmeans, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. the caller isdead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind ofmoney. He's confident that Mitch will find a way, If he loves hiswife enough... Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself.He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million bythen. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is athriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist,every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, afterall. And there's no other experience quite like it. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm)10.6
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.
Two classic stories-one indispensable volume. Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, The Call ofthe Wild and White Fang are two of the world's greatest adventurestories.
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
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to takeConstance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure anda sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, wherePendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritualstudies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare anddangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations hasbeen mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to trackand recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leadsPendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia , the world's largest and most luxurious oceanliner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
Every so often a character so captures the hearts andimaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his ownlong after the final page is turned. For such a character, one bookis not enough--readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontzreturns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With theemotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are histrademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique younghero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal partssuspense and terror, adventure and mystery--and altogetherirresistibly odd. We're all a little odd beneath the surface. He'sthe most unlikely hero you'll ever meet--an ordinary guy with amodest job you might never look at twice. But there's so much moreto any of us than meets the eye--and that goes triple for OddThomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small deserttown of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everydayevents. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead--it'ssomething
Three Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights Adventures. One SpecialPrice The million-copy "New York Times" bestselling trilogy, now inone deluxe omnibus edition. Volume One includes the complete novels"Heirs of the Force," "Shadow Academy," and "The Lost Ones."
Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetinto English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indictedand the impurity of its critics motives is exposed. In Tartuffe,the bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the power ofthe wily Tartuffe. Introductions by Richard Wilbur.
Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946",this book is a key volume in Kerouac's lifework, the series ofautobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. Awonderfully unassuming look back at the origins of his career--aprehistory of the Beat era, written from the perspective of thepsychedelic '60s.
First published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that "grew inthe telling," and many characters and events in the published bookare completely different from what Tolkien first wrote to readaloud to his young sons as part of their "fireside reads." For thefirst time, The History of the Hobbit reproduces the originalversion of one of literature's most famous stories, and includesmany little-known illustrations and previously unpublished maps forThe Hobbit created by Tolkien himself. Also featured are extensiveannotations and commentaries on the date of composition, howTolkien's professional and early mythological writings influencedthe story, the imaginary geography he created, and how he came torevise the book in the years after publication to accommodateevents in The Lord of the Rings.
In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner SaulBellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a manstruggling with the complexity of existence and longing forredemption. Introduction by Philip Roth
The #1 New York Times betseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts takesreaders deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where theshadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhoodfriendship matures into an adult passion.
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and hercareeras a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problemseems to betearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, awayfrom work f'or aromantic country weekend. And worse, figuringout how to pack light.But packing takes on a whole newmeaning when Luke announces he'smoving to New York f'orbusiness--and he asks Becky to go with him!Before you cansay "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the BigApple,home of" Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques.Surelyit's only a matter of"time until she becomes an AmericanTVcelebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of"Gotham society.Nothingcan stand in their way, especially with Becky's billsmiles away inLondon. But then an unexpected disasterthreatens her careerprospects, her relationship with Luke, andher available creditline! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan--butwill she have to returnit.)
The pivotal sixth instalment in King's bestselling epic fantasy saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.
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 ...
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift,jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters,and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth asecond-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during theGreat Depression, making one-night stands in town after endlesstown.
Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebratedBride Quartet series. As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, andParker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do"moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they starttheir own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream daycome true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyfulmoments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares eachwoman's emotionally magical journey to romance. "In Bed of Roses,"florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends atVows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to bethriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr.Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose.But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the women ofVows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun toadmit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed intomuch more than friendship. When Emma returns his pa
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of theDay comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, andloss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham,an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules whereteachers were constantly reminding their charges of how specialthey were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy havereentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to lookback at their shared past and understand just what it is that makesthem special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their timetogether. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, NeverLet Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains ofthe Day
In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifyingepidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey citywith maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, and even death. Thisis the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book:a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect ithas on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and itschildren. At the center of NEMISIS is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-threeyear old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower andweightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed withhimself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in thewar alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas aspolio begins to ravage his playground--and on the everday realitieshe faces--Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such apestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, thebewilderment, the suffering, and the pain. Moving between the smoldering, malodorous streets of besieg
