男人就怕不把他当回事的女人,因为他不知道该对这样的女人怎么办。人生是不是很奇怪,得到的人追求过程而在过程中奋斗的人却无时不刻的想看到结果到底是什么。谁都知道大泡泡是要破的,可是泡泡越吹越大的时候非常诱人,人们宁可相信它会无限制的大。这个世界当然有正义,但她是深藏不露的。
《1984动物农场(珍藏版)》中描述的是对极权主义恶性发展的预言人性遭到扼杀,自由遭到剥夺,思想受到钳制,生活极度贫乏、单调。特别可怕的是:人性已堕落到不分是非善恶的程度。一段写于五十年前的绝妙政治寓言让人不寒而栗:如果有一天这一切再重现……从未在任何极权国家生活过的英国人奥威尔,何以有如此天才般的预见和洞察?其实就象丁春秋的逍遥派、东方不败的日月神教,作家们不过是透视了人性中最原始而丑陋的东西。
Written in 1953, published in 1959 (after the 1957 publicationof Kerouac's On the Road made him famous overnight) and long out ofprint, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England milltown is one of Kerouac's most accessible works.
Starred Review. In her debut novel, Agus follows the fortunes ofa Sardinian woman whose adventures begin as WWII comes to an end;the unnamed narrator is her granddaughter who is about to bemarried. The woman had suitors, but with no firm proposals by 30,she was forced into a marriage to a widower whose experiences inthe brothel dictate their life in the bedroom. Several miscarriagesand kidney stones later, she is sent to thermal baths on themainland for a cure, where she takes as her lover a war veteranwhose kindness is in stark contrast to her husband's indifference.The veteran has a wife and daughter in Milan and she returns hometo give birth to a son. Years later, she searches for her lostlove, wandering the streets of Milan. The narrator constantlyamends the tale, demonstrating the uncertainty of stories passeddown. Agus's de*ions of the everyday are as beautiful andhaunting as her portrayal of life's most dramatic episodes. Add anunexpected ending and the result is a graceful, powerful book.(Jan.) (c) C
The final two novels of the Chesapeake Bay saga of the Quinnfamily--"Inner Harbor" and "Chesapeake Blue"--are in one volume forthe first time.
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region in which the explorers confront creatures from the prehistoric era. 'The Poison Belt' presents an eerie doomsday scenario, while ‘The Disintegration Machine’ satirically comments on scientific cynicism. In ‘When the World Screamed’, the planet responds violently to an experimental incursion. The strangest item is 'The Land of Mist', which seeks to reconcile science with spiritualism. This memorable collection provides imaginative entertainment, entrancing escapism and bold provocation.
On a photography assignment in the northern territory of MountMarsabit, American adventuress Jade del Cameron and her friendshope to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, they discoverthe mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although theauthorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search ofivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions. Could it have beenHarry Hascombe, her nemesis and unremitting suitor? Soon the Kikuyuboy accompanying her is captured by slave traders. Ultimately, itwill take all of Jade's mettle to rescue her guide from slavetraders, protect the animals, and expose another kind of beast.
From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comesthis seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' DetectiveAgency series featuring Botswana's best-loved detective. Life isgood for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve tosolve people's problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle themysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull onTlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist isappearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the officesof the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi GamePreserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among hisworkers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressurereadings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may havescared off her own fiance. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up tothe challenge. And "Blue Shoes and Happiness" will not fail toentertain Alexander McCall Smith's oldest fans and newest convertswith its great wit, charm, and great good will.
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love fromafar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, heknows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorcedAmerican chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks sheis incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity forromantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she haspacked up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,”as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in whichthey met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena isoverwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its ritualsand customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens upits arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippicaviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takesthe tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to acandlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she andFernando, two disparate souls, build
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品,2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本,它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱,却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相;不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界,没有夸张,没有矫情,一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史,看了,你一定会流泪。
Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy,loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’renever just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never justfull–you’re stuffed. Volk’s family fed New York City for onehundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introducedpastrami to America until 1988, when her father closed his garmentcenter restaurant. All along, food was pretty much at the center oftheir lives. But as seductively as Volk evokes the food, Stuffed isat heart a paean to her quirky, vibrant relatives: her grandmotherwith the “best legs in Atlantic City”; her grandfather, whoinvented the wrecking ball; her larger-than-life father, whosculpted snow thrones when other dads were struggling with snowmen.Writing with great freshness and humor, Patricia Volk will leaveyou hungering to sit down to dinner with her robust family–both forthe spectacle and for the food.
The first part of the publishing phenomenon that has sold more than 3.5 million copies across Europe - now available in paperback. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.