本书由名家之诗、名家之画、名家之笺释组成。有趣的诗、有趣的画，功力深厚的笺释浑然一体，由此，我们认识了什么是“雅趣”。诗与画表现的生活，已经离我们愈来愈远，但跃然纸上的笔墨，拉近了过去与现在的距离。笺释使我们从怀旧的思绪中，理智地审视逝去岁月的痕迹。在周作人、丰子恺两位先生的后人及钟叔河先生的鼎力支持下，这本了解、研究中国民俗的宝贵资料得以顺利出版。原丰子恺先生所缺的三幅画曾由毕克官先生补作，为了使风格更接近丰先生，丰一呤女士特仿照先生的构图补作三幅。

In this volume of his bestselling autobiography,Dirk Bogarda pays tribute to the corner of Provence-the shepherd's house,Le Pigeonnier,its sunlit terrace dnad olive grovew-that was his home for over two decades.And to Forwood,his manager and friend of fifty years,whose long and wretched illness broutht an end to paradise. ‘Bogarde remains unquestionably the best actor-biographer of the late twentieth century…brilliantly heart-rending'-Sheridan Morly in the Sunday Times.

On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition ofthe nature classic First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau'sgroundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers andcontinues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a loveof nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revisedIntroduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly inhis role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition ofWalden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant thanever. " Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, andoffers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments onsociety as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, bothfor its actual contents and its suggestive capacity." --A. P.Peabody, North American Review, 1854 " Walden] still seems to methe best youth's companion yet written by an American, for itcarries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, itadvances a good argument for traveling light and trying newadventures,

After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane,and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Islandseaside t own of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site oftheir enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. DiabolicalDarryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license andliberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockeymoms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their ownabsent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but fleshweaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspellof conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike isat his very best–a legendary master of literary magic up to his olddelightful tricks.

Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes; Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to his cleareyed appreciation of the Land Without Brussels Sprouts. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France. His humour, timing and intelligence never falter. When Picador published his Letters from London, the Financial Times called him 'our finest essayist'. Something to Declare confirms that judgment: it is a great literary delight.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of thegreatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessiblepaperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.”—John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerlessimaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prosestylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire,and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument ofecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous andcontroversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,”“The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs andSymbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from hismemoir Speak, Memory.

Starred Review. Ripped from the headlines doesn't begin todescribe Updike's latest, a by-the-numbers novelization of the lastfive years' news reports on the dangers of home-grown terror thatpacks a gut punch. Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy is 18 and attends CentralHigh School in the New York metro area working class city of NewProspect, N.J. He is the son of an Egyptian exchange student whomarried a working-class Irish-American girl and then disappearedwhen Ahmad was three. Ahmad, disgusted by his mother's inability toget it together, is in the thrall of Shaikh Rashid, who runs astorefront mosque and preaches divine retribution for "devils,"including the "Zionist dominated federal government." The list ofdevils is long: it includes Joryleen Grant, the waywardAfrican-American girl with a heart of gold; Tylenol Jones, a blacktough guy with whom Ahmad obliquely competes for Joryleen'sattentions (which Ahmad eventually pays for); Jack Levy, a CentralHigh guidance counselor who at 63 has seen enough failure,including

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettablecharacters, and language that brilliantly captures the livelyrhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to MarkTwain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain'sinimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the bitingsatire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here:ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras County," to the bitter vision of humankind in "The ManThat Corrupted Hadleyburg," to the delightful hilarity of "Is HeLiving or Is He Dead?" Surging with Twain's ebullient wit andpenetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volumeis a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L.Mencken-"the father of our national literature."

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to hishomeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of earlytales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with ourown times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulersbanish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the FifthDynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to findthat only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century,where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury toreproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these fivestories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands ofyears. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization,they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the mostrevered writers in world literature.