《地球杀场》是一部英雄史诗般的科幻小说。故事发生在公元三千年的时候，地球已被外星入侵者——塞库洛统治了若干个世纪。塞库洛用毒气毁灭地球人类，对捕获到的幸存者施以暴虐；他们依靠庞大的星系矿业公司，主宰着银河系。 在洛基山脉的一个贫瘠荒凉的小山村，幸存的人类过着野蛮人的生活。乔尼·泰勒决定出走山庄，去寻找乐土，不幸落入塞库洛的魔爪。在其他幸存者：苏格兰人、中国人、俄国人的帮助之下，乔尼巧妙地与宇宙间邪恶势力周旋，并运用人类的智慧，战胜了塞库洛和别的企图瓜分地球的外星入侵者。
The first and best known volume of one of the landmarks ofworld literature. Available separately for those who want toapproach Proust carefully!
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing's shortfiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginningof her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France,the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect thethemes that have always characterized Lessing's work: the bedrockrealities of marriage and other relationships between men andwomen; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatenedby a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; thefate of women.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story.Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyoneagrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to herparents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover;and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder SantiagoNasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murderwas going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The morethat is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races toits inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair ofmurderers-- is put on trial.
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys andgirls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself amongpirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holdschildren as entranced today as it did a century ago. It hasappeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none soapt as Peake's--first published in 1949 and out of print untilnow.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's most revolutionarynovel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line betweennineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visionsof self each century embodied. One of the most remarkablecharacters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former officialwho has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In fullretreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive,self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack onsocial utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrationalnature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevskytranslations have become the standard, give us a brilliantlyfaithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedyand tormented comedy of the original.
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by JohnCarey
Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventuremagically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure huntthrough the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossingthe Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crewmust brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by thequintessentially ruthless pirate Long John Silver. Brilliantlyconceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seizedthe imagination of generations of adults and children alike. And asDavid Cordingly points out in his Introduction, Treasure Island isalso the best and most influential of all the stories aboutpirates.
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkablenovels that explore social class in America and the inner lives ofyoung Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative andsuspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluentsuburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession isnarrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who seeshimself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding aroundhim. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbedparents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisivelyanalyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious privateschooling, his "successful-executive" father, and his elusivemother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-oldRichard strikes out in a way that presages the violence ofever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come. A NationalBook Award finalist, "Expensive People" is a stunning combinationof social satire and gothic horror. "You cannot put this novel a
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, theChrist-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in atangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept womanNastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with thecorrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty,goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moralemptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnetttranslation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought byGarnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much aspossible the syntactical structure of the original.
Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his mostabiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as itunfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid thefierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottishhistory. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties betweenthe warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family findsitself tragically divided. Stevenson’s remarkably vividcharacterizations create an acutely moving, psychologically complexwork; as Andrea Barrett points out in her Introduction, “Thebrothers’ characters, not the historical facts, shape thedrama.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes illustrationsreproduced from the original edition.
George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel isconsidered by many to be her greatest. First published ininstallments in 1874-76, "Daniel Deronda" is a richly imagined epicwith a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda, a high-minded youngman searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a seriesof dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the Englishcountry-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beautytrapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives ofa poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers thelong-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving andsuspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experiencepreviously unknown to the Victorian novel.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the acclaimed translators of"War and Peace," "Crime and Punishment," and "The BrothersKaramazov, "a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol's shortfiction. Collected here are Gogol's finest tales--stories thatcombine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant withthe sardonic social criticism of the city dweller--allowing readersto experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who pavedthe way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogol's most memorablecreations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, thedowntrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of asplendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that adog can tell him everything he needs to know. The wholly uniqueblend of the mundane and the supernatural that Gogol craftedestablished his reputation as one of the most daring and inventivewriters of his time.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1951, the second year of the KoreanWar, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark,New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on thepastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And whyis he there and not at a local college in Newark where heoriginally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworkingneighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad-mad with fear andapprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of theworld, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Farfrom Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs andconstrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth'stwenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the hauntednarratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and apowerful exploration of a remarkable moment in Americanhistory.
All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabrestory. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms.
Book De*ion This story begins in ashadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. Itproceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of thedepths and the heights of human experience, has become the key withwhich Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of itsown identity. About Author DANTE ALIGHIERI was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. His earlypoetry falls into the tradition of love poetry that passed from theProvencal to such Italian poets as Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's friendand mentor. Dante's first major work is the Vita Nuova, 1293-1294.This sequence of lyrics, sonnets, and prose narrative describes hislove, first earthly, then spiritual, for Beatrice, whom he hadfirst seen as a child of nine, and who had died when Dante was 25.Dante married about 1285, served Florence in battle, and rose to aposition of leadership in the bitter factional politics of thecity-state. As one of the city's magistrates, he found it necessaryto banish leaders of the so-called "Black" facti
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, TarBaby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. JadineChilds is a black fashion model with a white patron, a whiteboyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son isa black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires.As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from theCaribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all thenuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites,masters and servants, and men and women.
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of IraRingold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenageditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star,and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthywitchhunt of the 1950s. In his heyday as a star--and as a zealous,bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes--Ira marriesHollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamoroushoneymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and itis the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose thatidentifies him as "an American taking his orders from Moscow." Inthis story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into thepublic arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life,Philip Roth--who "Commonweal" calls the "master chronicler of theAmerican twentieth century--has written a brilliant fictionalprotrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch when the anti-Communistfever not only infected national politics but tra
Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn ofpiracy on the fiery tropic seas--an unforgettable tale of treacherythat embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers from honest youngJim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands to evil incarnate,blind Pew. But above all, Treasure Island is a complex study ofgood and evil, as embodied by that hero-villain, Long John Silver;the merry unscrupulous buccaneer-rogue whose greedy lust for goldcannot help but win the heart of every one who ever longed forromance, treasure, and adventure. Since its publication in 1883,Treasure Island has provided an enduring literary model for sucheminent writers as Anthony Hope, Graham Greene, and Jorge LuisBorges. As David Daiches wrote: "Robert Louis Stevenson transformedthe Victorian boys' adventure into a classic of its kind."
