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
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and peopl
Book De*ion Subtitled "A RomanticNovel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race", "The Torrents ofSpring" - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodiesthe themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers of hisgeneration. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, butthe snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of forChicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up withYogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire onconventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yetstrangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, "The Torrents ofSpring" throws light on Hemingway's later work - and is a delightto read. Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.8 width:(cm)11.1
A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosenby the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Readprogram. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains suchfamously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as "TheTell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask ofAmontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum," and suchunforgettable poems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee."Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story,represented here by "The Purloined Letter," "The Mystery of MarieRoget," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Also included is his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," inwhich he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describinghow he constructed "The Raven" as an example.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself thesubject of one of literature's most enduring mysteries. The storyrecounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book's eponymouscharacter, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so bywhom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood's lugubrious uncle, whocoveted Rosa. Or did Drood orchestrate his own disappearance? AsCharles Dickens died before finishing the book, the ending isintriguingly ambiguous. In his Introduction, Matthew Pearlilluminates the 150-year-long quest to unravel" "The Mystery ofEdwin Drood and lends new insight into the novel, the literarymilieu of 1870s England, and the private life of Charles Dickens.This Modern Library edition includes new endnotes and a fulltran* of "The Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of EdwinDrood," the 1914 mock court case presided over and argued by thelikes of G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Now diehardfans, new readers, and armchair detectives have another opportunityto solve the mys
Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition. Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love.
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells hissoul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full ofstinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of DorianGray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when itfirst appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence andcorrupting influence, and a few years later the book and theaesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trialsoccasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted inhis imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde notedin a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry whatthe world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages,perhaps."
James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattles family, Go Tell It On The Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change. "The most important novel written about the American Negro," says Commentary. "It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill," writes Harper's. Saturday Review praises it as "masterful," and the San Francisco Chronicle declares that this important American novel is "brutal, objective and compassionate." 作者简介： James Baldwin,one of America's most celebrated
They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach:Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving dayto day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, anupper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absentthough very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought themtogether, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart,Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wildwest -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . .Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the lateeighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with itscelebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence. "A tourde force . . . Spectacular." -- Time "Updike's novel, as tender asit is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . .Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press "From the Paperbackedition."
From Publishers Weekly Gruen enjoys minimal luck in trying to recapture the magic of herenormously successful Water for Elephants in this clumsy outingthat begins with the bombing of the Great Ape Language Lab, auniversity research center dedicated to the study of thecommunicative behavior of bonobo apes. The blast, which terrorizesthe apes and severely injures scientist Isabel Duncan, occurs oneday after Philadelphia Inquirer reporter John Thigpen visits thelab and speaks to the bonobos, who answer his questions in signlanguage.
The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of thegreatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-knownpoets. Each collection has a specially commissionedintroduction. This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from thehauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still bestremembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond questionhis status as one of the foremost poets of his age.
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape hismother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part,struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreamsof prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off tofight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yatesportrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to hisheroic ideals. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettableportrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even aslife challenges them both.
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet TomasTranstromer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990.Translated by Michael McGriff, Transtromer's great work isavailable in its first single-volume English edition.
'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis is composed offive linked stories set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Hearts in Atlantis will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. The Muder Of Roger Ackroyd Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This laugh-out-loud-funny novel comes from peter Farrelly,co-creator of the hit movies Dumb and Dumber,There's Something About Mary and Me,Myself and Irene. Hilari-ous yet melancholy,it tells of a young man's coming-of-age in the 1970s.Timothy Dunphy is a native of working class Pawtucket,Rhode Island.His mother killed herself if the family garage,and his tough-talking father calls him 'Dildo'. But Ti-mothy's meagre existence takes a turn when his old man exploits some shady connecti-ons to get him into a fancy connecticut prep shool.Timothy finds that the privileged elite are hardly immune to life's screw-ups,but he must also reconcile his pedigreed schoolmates with his mongrel friends back home,like slow-witted Bunny Cote and Quaa-lude-popping 'Drugs'Delaney.
Provides an accessible, highly-illustrated introduction to 30 of history's most famous battles, including Marathon, Hastings, Agincourt, Saratoga, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme, Stalingrad, D-Day and many, many more Includes ful[-colour tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisive moves of the battle Features more than 250 colour and black-and-white photographs and artworks illustrating the uniforms, tactics and military technology of the era.
When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career trajectory of many modern politicians into punditry. Unable to become an on-air political analyst for a television network, he only wrote a book. But what a book The Prince is. Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli's assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena. "It must be understood," Machiavelli avers, "that a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against mercy, against faith, against human
Nell Dysart is living a too small life in a too small apartment,Her marriage is finished,her career is in limbo,and she feels she has the sex appeal of a skeletal giraffe.But things might be about to change,for Nell has landed a job at a down-and-out detectiveagency with huge potential for redecoration and a boos who looks easy to manage.A quick spto of dachshund napping,blacdmail and embezzlement later and Nell can scarcely believe her life was ever dull.But when somebody starts killing people and unprofessional sex becomebs a sticky sitution,she starts to wonder just how many more thrills one woman's life can withstand… 作者简介： Jennifer Crusie is the author of Tell Me Lies,Crazy for You and Welcome to Temptation,as well as the award-winning author of nine romances.She teaches writing and literature at Ohio State University.
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its ingloriousbanality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and whollymodern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincialhousewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe ina desperate love affair. A succA]s de scandale in its day, "MadameBovary" remains a powerful and arousing novel. Translated with anIntroduction by Geoffrey Wall New Preface by MichA]le Roberts
