作者 : Jack Kerouac 出版社: Penguin Classics 出版年: 2000-2 页数: 320 定价: GBP 8.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780141182674 内容简介 On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. 作者简介 杰克 凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969），1922年3月12日，凯鲁亚克出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔，父母为法裔美国人，他是家中幼子。他曾在当地天主教和公立学校就读，以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学，结识爱伦 金斯堡、威廉 巴勒斯和尼尔 卡萨迪等 垮掉的一代 。

《Napoleon》 (50th Anniversary Edition) 作者：Felix Markham 出版社: Signet Classics; Reissue (2010年9月7日) 丛书名: Signet Classics 简装: 336页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0451531655 条形码: 9780451531650 商品尺寸: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm 商品重量: 181 g 内容简介 This magnificent reconstruction of Napoleon s life and legend, written by a distinguished Oxford scholar, is based on intimate documents including the personal letters of Marie-Louise and the decoded diaries of Grand Marshal Bertrand, who accompanied Napoleon to his final exile on St. Helena. It has been hailed as the most important single-volume work in Napoleonic literature. 作者简介 Felix Markham (1908?92) was born in Brighton, England. After graduating from Oxford, he taught history there for some forty years. Among his books are Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe and The Bonapartes. He was also the editor and translator of such works as Henri Comte de Saint-Simon, Selected Writings.

In Going Within, MacLaine asks tough questions of and givesgood advice to the spiritual seeker. She has suffered, felt sorrowand anger, stress, fear, and anxiety, yet she has never allowedherself to be defined by her negative emotions. Instead she asks,"If we are not in harmony with ourselves, how can we possibly be inharmony with anyone else, much less the world that we inhabit?"MacLaine celebrates the independence that comes with therecognition of all emotions, both negative and positive. MacLainehas created many memorable roles as an actress but ironicallyyounger adults may be more familiar with her work as a memoiristand spiritual seeker. In Out on a Limb, MacLaine reveals an intenseand secretive loving relationship with a prominent politician,which sparked her quest for self-discovery. Fans of the actress'searlier works will be aware of her love of the journey. Herde*ions of her travels from Stockholm to Hawaii to Peru willstimulate even the most sedate armchair traveler wanting to seemore of the

For decades, Elizabeth Taylor has been a part of our lives.Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past thetabloid version of Elizabeth's life and offers the first‐ever fullyrealized portrait of this American icon. You'll meet hercontrolling mother who plotted her daughter's success from birth,see the qualities that catapulted Elizabeth to stardom in 1940sHollywood, understand the psychological and emotional underpinningsbehind the eight marriages, and, finally, rejoice in Elizabeth'smost bravura performance of all: the new success in family,friendships, and philanthropy she achieved despite substance abuseand chronic illness. It's the story of the woman you thought youknew, and now can finally understand.

Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when hewas a boy. He and his brother, Tony, were not told how she died. Noone spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolardisorder. The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable success; Tonyas a gifted journalist (and author of the classic book, CommonGround ), Kit as an accomplished television producer anddirector. After suffering bouts of depression, Kit was able toconfront his family’s troubled past, but Tony never seemed to findthe contentment Kit had attained–he killed himself in 1997. Writtenwith heartrending honesty, Blue Genes captures thedevastation of this family legacy of depression and details thestrength and hope that can provide a way of escaping itsgrasp.

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insularNew Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by hermother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hidingher before they finally banish her altogether. After giving herbaby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the MiddleEast, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally herblood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life thatencircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one,her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in grittypoverty with an abusive father—in her own father's hometown. Theirreunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall'sparents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offersthem her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in whichloss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion intowisdom.