本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。

小说以主人公夏冲从4岁到31岁的经历、见闻为主要线索，时间跨度为1976年至2008年。 夏冲是一个对悲剧非常敏感的人，发现周围生活中到处是被忽略的悲剧，他的父母、少年时代的朋友等人都在各种悲剧之中，与传统悲剧不同的是，这些悲剧往往被看作是理所当然，不足为奇。小说叙述的半个爱情故事则是悲剧中的一抹暖色，女主人公戚敏与夏冲同样年轻、聪明，但更平静，也懂得安之若素。夏冲经历了三次“寂静”时期，他不清楚为什么生活如此平淡又令人激动，无论时代如何变化，这国家这生活都像一条龙，庞大、强力、野心勃勃，而主人公则像一只蝉，疏离、弱小、难以平静。当他到了成熟的年纪，成了一名律师，却仍受制于往日记忆，不得自由。2008年北京奥运会之前，中国已经成了一个崭新的国家，生活完全变了。这时夏冲回首往事，就像蝉发出了一

本书精选法国有名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。

Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popularheroes in frontier fiction. His legendary exploits in books,movies, and on television have blazed a mythic and unforgettabletrail across the American West. Now, in the last of four HopalongCassidy novels written by Louis L'Amour, the immortal saddlemanrides again--this time into a lonely valley of danger and death.Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead.Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher PeteMelford, he rides in only to discover that his old friends has beenmurdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, hadvanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late tosave Pete, but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he findthat cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfullyhers. Colonel Justin Tradwar, criminal kingpin of the town ofKachina, is the owner of the sprawling Box T ranch, and he hasbuilt his empire with a shrewd and ruthless determination. Insearch of Pet

A long-awaited collection of stories about the real heroes ofthe frontier--the survivors--from America's favorite storyteller ofthe authentic West. They came West to stay, risking their blood todig for gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out alegacy of freedom. Reissue.

Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a streetfighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world.They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're lookingto survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collecttheir pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with ahardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister,who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don'twant, don't need, and don't dare turn their backs on--especiallywhen one of the perpetrators might be one of Pike's old friends.Hunted like animals across the frozen countryside, Pike and Holtwill risk everything--including their reputations, theirdreams--and their lives.

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz’s award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying their childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. Jean Fritz tells her captivating story of the difficulties of living in a unfamiliar country at such a difficult time.

In Mojave Crossing," " Louis L'Amour takes William TellSackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to thebooming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies' man, buthe could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was thekind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time--even more so whenhe had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way totravel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles,Sackett reluctantly agreed. Now he's on a perilous journey throughthe most brutal desert on the continent, traveling with a companionhe doesn't trust...and headed for a confrontation with a deadlygunman who also bears the name of Sackett.

一个幽默的作家，一定是极会掌握语言文学的作家，他必须写得俏皮，泼辣，警辟，使人读了发笑，或啼笑皆非、受到教育。老舍作为一个幽默小说家，便具有这样的语言能力和幽默的心态，世事、异国观光、朋友亲邻，在他眼里皆是有趣的。一如他笔下“穿马裤的马裤先生”、“盼孙子的王老太太”、“院里不是东西的老王”等等，既写实传神，又夸张好笑。且他的这种笑不仅仅是让人捧腹的搞笑，还是一种含泪的笑。他将对当时社会的讽刺批判和自己博大悲悯的人道主义情怀，融入这种笑中，极具感染力，让人发笑的同时，也引人思考。