传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路
《地球杀场》是一部英雄史诗般的科幻小说。故事发生在公元三千年的时候，地球已被外星入侵者——塞库洛统治了若干个世纪。塞库洛用毒气毁灭地球人类，对捕获到的幸存者施以暴虐；他们依靠庞大的星系矿业公司，主宰着银河系。 在洛基山脉的一个贫瘠荒凉的小山村，幸存的人类过着野蛮人的生活。乔尼·泰勒决定出走山庄，去寻找乐土，不幸落入塞库洛的魔爪。在其他幸存者：苏格兰人、中国人、俄国人的帮助之下，乔尼巧妙地与宇宙间邪恶势力周旋，并运用人类的智慧，战胜了塞库洛和别的企图瓜分地球的外星入侵者。
A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging,vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama ofthe conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world ofseventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich inpsychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemptionaddresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind andheart, Hawthorne fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction.
An extraordinary volume for fans and students Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, AWoman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan , and Salomé , this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance andtimeless wit.
Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love andnostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officerpoised between his past and his future relives his first loveaffair.
Two of Shakespeare's important and illuminating history playsin a comprehensive and scholarly update. This edition includes adiscussion and criticism of Shakespeare's life, world, and theaterby outstanding scholars past and present, stage histories ofnotable actors, directors, and producers, and clear, readable textand commentaries.
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poetMary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter andrhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems fromRobert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts anextraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space."Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzlingpersonality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparklingcomedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever writtenfor the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popularnovel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “TheBallad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience;and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramaticsuccess, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventionalmorality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, andSalomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written inFrench and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection ofoutstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptlycalled “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.
在线阅读本书 A spine-tingling collection of terrifying classics with anintroduction by horror master Stephen King. The mesmerizing storyof a demented scientist's monster creation; the horror masterpiecethat has led to countless vampire novels and films; and theultimate tale of the never-ending battle between good andevil--these frightening works continue to enthrall even the boldestreaders. Reissue.
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of thehero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a youngpublisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armandeon the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from agrinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eightyears later--following a murder, a period of madness and a briefimprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle outhis past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time[are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, morecentrally, against the world of observable objects." --MartinAmis
This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful andhaunting fiction of his century" ( Kirkus Reviews ). And withhis special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, hepaved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, anautobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and astorehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the rawmaterial from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of threenovels--previously published separately by Anchor--by NaguibMahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here isa collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes ofpost-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique,together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonantvision of modern life in the Middle East. The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In theaftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work andfamily to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail inpost-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blamesan unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himselfto destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility,isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who isone of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution inEgypt.
Known as a "feast of language," this is one of the bard'searliest comedies, in which four bachelors who have dedicatedthemselves to chastity and scholarly pursuits soon encounter thewomen of their dreams.
New package for Austen's brilliant satire of the gothicnovel A sly commentary on the power of literature and a warning forwomen about being too innocent, here is a fresh, funny novel of ayoung woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in herilluminating introduction, "intensive instruction in the ways ofthe world."
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) If William Shakespeare hadnever written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely uponthe substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he leftbehind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchyof world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets-intimate,baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawnfrom classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by apoem like "The Phoenix and the Turtle"-permanently deepen ourunderstanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of ourgreatest poet.
The beloved sequel to Little Women , this classiccontinues the story of Jo March, who goes on to get married andinherit an estate with which she creates an experimental school forboys.
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with PaulRoche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, andall-new translations of the remaining plays.
Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's mostphilosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and timehas seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fineproductions have demonstrated the play's theatrical power, andcritics have explored and illuminated its ideas and itsexceptionally complex language. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction,sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd careerin the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiplesources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticismto a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallenworld. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title.
"What makes his work great is that it can be felt andunderstood...by anybody," said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays,which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue,and an electrically charged atmosphere.
