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

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure and shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world full of the fantastical and extraordinary.

From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwan--a master ofcontemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prize-winningnational bestseller Amsterdam --an enchanting work of fictionthat appeals equally to children and adults. First published in England as a children's book, TheDaydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatestnovelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitelyinterlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortunereveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of hischildhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peterexperiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with thewise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant;encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out forrevenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with uselessobjects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makespeople vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside agrown-up body and embarks on the truly fantast

Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickenscompleted and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basicplot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, arocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host ofunforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing theauthor's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, andthe story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The moodis set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, andhis daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned menwhose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to theauthorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that islater identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning fromabroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered andthrown into the river. Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happensin the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on thecondition that he marry a girl he'd

Book De*ion The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win the hand ofplain Catherine Sloper--even if it means pretending that he lovesthe homely ingenue, not her opulent wealth. Includes a newAfterword by the author of "The Hours." Reissue.

《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。

(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 De*ion Toni Morrison's new novelis a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power andperversity, color and class that spans three generations of blackwomen in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who woulddo almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them maybe even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee,mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim onCosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue tooutright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny,erotic, and heart-wrenching. Amazon.com The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introductionto a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of theocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort.Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--BillCosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generationsof characters living in the seaside community. One clear truthhere, told time and ag

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published justafter Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950sChicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brillianta fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined bysocial and ethical constraints and by moral compulsionsconspicuously different from those of today. Newly discharged fromthe Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freedfrom old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach isdrawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and toLibby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected tothe ordered andquot; world of feelingandquot; that he finds inbooks is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes'struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager loveaffairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously,Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, aspirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable

(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.

In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe,James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy,tragedy, romance, and melodrama.

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.

传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles,mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up threecars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the LittleGrandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for thesummer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothersand to understand her place on this side of the border and that,Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she startstelling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to howshe got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating.Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwindexploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished"rebozo," or shawl, that has been passed down through generationsof Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history,family, and love.

FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS, Amasterful newtranslation--never before pub-lished---of the novel in which FyodorDostoevskyset out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing CrimeandPunishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novelwith a verydifferent man at its center. InThe Idiot, the saintly PrinceMyshkin returns toRussia from a Swiss sanatorium and findshim-selfa stranger in a society obsessed with wealth,power, andsexual conquest. He soon becomesentangled in a love triangle with anotoriouskept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful younggirl, Aglaya.Extortion and scandal escalate tomurder, as Dostoevsky's"positively beautifulman" clashes with the emptiness of asocietythat cannot accommodate his innocence andmoral idealism. TheIdiot is both a powerfulindictment of that society and a rich andgrip-ping masterpiece.

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of thefinest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was firstpublished by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence andthen assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman'sLibrary edition includes, for the first time, the previouslyunpublished "Chapter 16"--the most significant unpublished piece ofwriting by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate--whichprovided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilizedfamily, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror,education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. TheNabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a lifeimmersed in politics and literature on splendid country estatesuntil their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when theauthor was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes avanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. ScottFitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows theeducation-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young AmoryBlaine.