三分天下归一晋n一部司马家族创业史nn司马师去世前，将大将军之职传位司马昭，在父兄创立的基业上，司马昭在魏国独揽朝纲。n魏帝曹髦见威权日去，意欲讨伐权臣，事情泄漏后，太子舍人成济在贾充的授意下将曹髦刺死。n司马昭闻讯后将成济斩首谢罪，又用太后的名义，以不敬太后、自寻死路的罪名将曹髦的皇帝名位废掉。n曹魏实权落入司马昭手中。n
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
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundationnovels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend ofnonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. Thestory of our future begins with the history of Foundation and itsgreatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand yearsthe Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only HariSeldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, cansee into the future-- a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, andwarfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledgeand save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars-- and brings them to a bleak planet atthe edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for futuregenerations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon thefledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlordsrising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind' s last besthope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the ba
Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter ofMaladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the PulitzerPrize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivatedby her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the firsttime. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family dramathat illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: theimmigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled tiesbetween generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-boundlife in Calcutta through their fraught transformation intoAmericans. On the heels of an arranged wedding, Ashoke and AshimaGanguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does hisbest to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol,is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respectingold ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along thefirst-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comicdetours, and wrenching love affairs. With empathy and
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a humanbeing or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2)A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except wheresuch orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot mustprotect its own existence as long as such protection does notconflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simpledirectives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots foreverwhen he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot,Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series ofinterlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present toits ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future inwhich humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. Here are stories ofrobots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense ofhumor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run theworld--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and sciencefiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, hassuffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book hehas ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his ownname, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembersnothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort toretrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in thehills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, hesearches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photoalbums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story ofhis generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, JosephineBaker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and thelife racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel.Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocentimage: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant newnovel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from theincomparable Eco.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Raymond Chandler's first threenovels, published here in one volume, established his reputation asan unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. "The BigSleep," Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, aprivate detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed Californiamillionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In"Farewell, My Lovely," Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, amurder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentiallydeadly women. In "The High Window," Marlowe searches the Californiaunderworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in thetangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels,Chandler's hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular,and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establishhis claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to thepantheon of literary art.
After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643,Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept fromthe Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne,anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fullyprovisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Robertoexplores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chaptersfrom his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege ofCasale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War inwhich he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons givenhim on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, andblasphemy. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells ofa young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a mostamazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed thesecrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and theFlood.
This is not your father's list of classics. In thesedelightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introducesnearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing withaffection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces offantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well asepics, history, essay, and children's literature. Organizedthematically, these are works that have shaped our imaginations."Love's Mysteries" moves from Sappho and Arthurian romance to SorenKierkegaard and Georgette Heyer. In other categories Dirdadiscusses not only "Dracula" and Sherlock Holmes but also the "TaoTe Ching" and Icelandic sagas, Frederick Douglass and "Fowler'sModern English Usage." Whether writing about Petronius or Perelman,Dirda makes literature come alive. "Classics for Pleasure" is aperfect companion for any reading group or lover of books.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The only complete edition ofstories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collectedhere for the first time in one volume, including some stories thathave been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned towriting at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories inpulp magazines such as "Black Mask" before later writing his famousnovels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art anddeveloped his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops andbad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondesand redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance.In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which hissignature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around thecool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famousdetective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasyand even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-fivestories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understatedstyle
