戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们
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
《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海，由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听：玫在1939年的上海，爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施，为让爱人去美国，玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中，小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助，，玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”，用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险，同时，以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式，去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料，令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。
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The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story forwhich Henry lames is best remembered. Set in anEnglish country house, it is a chilling tale of thesupernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe,a theme in which Henry lames is at his mostassured and accomplished. The author cleverlyevokes the drama of the comedie humaine againstthe majestic setting of a Venetian palace.
'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive private schools. We aren't always the nicest people in the world, but we make up for it in looks and taste.' The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool. Set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way). In this second novel, they are interviewing for college (Ivy League only, naturally).
Donna Leonas mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetianmanners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailinglydecent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteriesbestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing Americanaudience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of ayoung nursing sister who is leaving her convent following theunexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettias inquiriesreveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simplycreating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. Butperhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and verysinisterasomething that puts her life in imminent danger.
Two people haunt orphan Pip's childhood: Magwitch, an escaped convict he meets and helps, and Estella, the beautiful charge of spiteful Miss Haversham. When Pip is given the means to become a gentleman, he has 'great expectations'. But his past is not so easily left behind. PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per-fect introduction to the world-famous PENGUIN CLASSICS series - which en-compasses the best books ever written, from Homer's Odyssey tO Orwell's 1984 and everything in between. For a full list and ideas on what to read next, visit www.penguinclassics.com
Julie Parsons exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, Mary, Mary, which, according to The New York Times, "takes the psychological suspense thriller to places it rarely dares to go." Now, in The Courtship Gift, a shy female entomologist is pitted against a murderous maniac. Dublin on a cold April night. Anna Neale arrives home late and discovers her husband, David, dead in his study, his face a rictus mask of agony. Anna gazes with disbelief at the telltale marks on his skin. It seems David died from anaphylactic shock induced by a bee sting. But it is not bee season, and he has known all his life that he is allergic to the bee's poison. Anna finds a peculiar package addressed to David and begins to suspect that he was murdered. As the weeks pass, Anna learns that nothing in her life with David had been as it seemed. In death, her husband is an utter stranger to her. She is now alone, defenseless, and feels herself falling apart. This is just what attracts the handsome and
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas' thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantes, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown in a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'Lf -- doomed to spend his life in a dark prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue, and paints a vision of France -- a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France -- that has become immortal. 作者简介 Alexandre Dumas was born in a small town in France in 1802.His father was a general and a companion of Napoleon.Later Dumas used Napoleon and his friends as characters in his novels.Dumas grew up to be a huge man like his father.He loved to eat,spend money,be with friend——and write. The most famous of all Dumas' books are The Three Musketeers,The Man in the Iron Mask,and The Count of Monte Cristo.The
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest of nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny Bazarov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need tooverthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov's politial ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. the novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Tur
All Paris taunts and sorments Quasimodo,the hunchback who lives among the carved stone gargoyles of the great cathedral spires.Nobody thinsk he has human fellings and emotions,but Quasimodo will show enormous love and loyalty as this dramatic and unusual story unfolds. In this vivid tapestry are woven the stories of beautiful Esmeralda and the men who love her ,including the tragic Quasimodo,who risks everything,even his own life ,for the young dancer.Danger,betrayal,and surprise touch every page of this incomparable world classic. 作者简介 Victor Hugo，The sickly infant born to Joseph and Sophie Hugo in Besancon,France,on February 26,1802 wasn't given much chance to survive.But the boy did survive and grew up to become one of the greatest writers France and the world has ever known:a poet,a playwright,a novelist ,and a genius at all three. By the age of fourteen,he had written twenty-three poems,and at fifteen,he received a prize from the famed Academie Francaise for a 334-line poem.
In March 2000 Cisco Systems,with a mardet capitalization of＄531 billion,was the most valuable company on the planet.With44,000 employees and a stock price at ＄80 per share,Cisco was monthe later with the crisp smell of cole cash in the air,Cisco president and CEO john Chambers Vowed to change the world.Who knew that in a matter of days disaster would strike? 作者简介: ROBERT SLATER has written numerous bestselling business books,including jack Welch and the GE Way and Soros:The Life ,Tims and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor.His Book Ovitz:The Controversial Power Broker received widespread media attention.Slater worken for Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau for twenty years.
Millions of readers have enjoyed the haunting tale of WutberngHeights for its romantic and suspenseful plot. But did you kn6wz that it's also packed with words you need to know for the SAT,Learning words by reading them in context is one of the mOst effective ways to expand your vocabulary, and this book can help you do just that!
Donna Leonas multitude of fans around the world has grown witheach new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in theUnited States can enjoy another compelling episode. In "FatalRemedies," Brunettias career is under threat when his professionaland personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of theVenetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of thedeserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culpritwaiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his ownfamily. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors tosolve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidentaldeath. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be ableto prove his familyas innocence before itas too late?
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily’s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. The House of Mirth was Published in October 1950 to widespread critical aclaim.it became an instant best-seller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.
The latest "New York Times" bestseller by "America's mostpopular suspense novelist" ("Rolling Stone") is the story ofHollywood's most dazzling star whose perfectly ordered life isunder siege by an insidious killer.
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of ithung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or akinky act turned tragic? Either way, it wasn't murder. At least notaccording to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective SamKovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska thinkdifferently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges ofthe young cop's death, uncovering one motive and one suspect afteranother. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city'selite, but into the very heart of the police department. Someonewants the case closed- quickly and forever. But neither Kovac norLiska will give up. Now both their careers and their lives are onthe line. From a murder case two months old to another case closedfor twenty years, Kovac and Liska must unearth a connection thekiller wants dead and buried. A killer who will stop at absolutelynothing to keep a dark and shattering secret . . .
Meet Victor Frankenstein,a brilliant young scientist.After two years of hard work and experimentation,he dscovers the secret of bringing a creature to life.
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes' murderous jealousy and Perdita's love-relationship with Florizel are eloquently intense. In the theatre, The Winter's Tale often proves to be diversely entertaining and deeply moving.
Each one of the March sisters has her ownset of aspirations in life. But will all of these'little women' find their different paths, whilestruggling through school punishments, sib-ling sulks, hair singeing and the possibilitiesof romance? PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per-fec introduction to the world-famousPENGUINCLASSICS series - which en-compasses the best books ever written,from Homer's Odyssey to Orwelrs 1984and everything in between. For a full listand ideas on what to read next, isitwww.penguinclassics.com
he uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York's hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is too busy drowning his sorrows in empty bottles to notice a mysterious French beauty who has a penchant for dirty, Jim Morrison-wannabe lead singers. Blair takes residence at the Plaza to think about her future. Will she become a gun-toting international spy or Manhattan's snobbiest society hostess? Decisions are so difficult! Sounds like everyone needs a day off at the spa. And Senior Spa Day promises to serve up further doses of scandal for New York's busiest private-school vixens.
