"The best way to understand Pasternak's achievementinDoctorZh/vago is to see it in terms of this great Russianliterarytradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil asof opposing forces and needs in human destiny and historythat cannever be reconciled... [Zhivago is] a figure whoembodies theprinciple of life itself, the principle that contradicts everyabstraction of revolutionary politics."

A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.... "Wonderful...Powerful." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. The psychological precision...is a delight, and the startling twists -- the unexpected leaps in time, the transformation of familiar characters -- they make the book what books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious." -- John Gardner In this exhilarating series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro re-creates the evolving bond -- one that is both constricting and empowering -- between two women in the coupe of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow-in spite of Flo's ridicule and ghastly warnings -- leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world. "The stories are absolutely wonderful-every word she writes is interesting." -- Alice Adams "The best stories of the year." -- The

In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, liesCrystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits astrange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountaincontains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuablemineral, platinum. " Not only exciting but truly surprising"--Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. SirJames knows how. Invade the country with a band of savage,cold-blooded mercenaries. Topple the government and set up a puppetdictatorship. Unleash the dogs of war.

理查德·梅休是伦敦一个平平常常的生意人，过着平平常常的生活。但有一天，他做了件不太平常的事：把一位身负重伤、素不相识的姑娘带回了自己的公寓。 从此，一切都变得不同寻常—— 同事们看不见他，从前的恋人不再认识他，甚至连他的家都不再属于他。他走在人流中，人们却完全意识不到他的存在。理查德·梅休这个人不复存在了，仿佛从未存在过。 都是因为这个名叫门菲的姑娘。她为他打开了一扇门，通往另一个世界—— 一个隐藏在伦敦之下、阴险邪恶却又充满刺激的乌有乡。 Under the streets of London there's a world most people couldnever even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers andangels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a youngbusinessman who is about to find out more than he bargained forabout this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him outof h

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955,and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early,critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family ofsettlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is along-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is areal-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down,perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, andmannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love workingon these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life,and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish themwith due care and all-available skill.

A collection of tales of the frontier features the story ofBud Miles, who must bury his father to become a man, Tell Sackett'stransport of dangerous freight across the country, and LaurieBonnet, a mail-order bride. Reissue.

A mystery writer assumes a detective's identity and embarks ona bizzare case: he must protect a man from his criminally insanefather, and as he follows the elusive criminal, he embarks on amission that takes him to the depths of his own soul. Auster's Inthe Country of Last Things is being published this month byViking.

当卡米莉家乡的几名女孩被谋杀后，由于工作的原因，她被迫回到那个古老南方贵族与吸毒青年共同生活的地方。随着卡米莉揭露杀害那些女孩的凶手以及杀人动机的谜底，《利器》这个故事使读者在心理上产生了深度困扰：卡米莉为何如此坚定地去调查这些被害的女孩？卡米莉与她母亲之间发生了什么？这件事是怎样与多年前她另一个妹妹的死联系到一起的？ When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri,journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to reporton the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from hermother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed onceagain in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with herdistant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violentcrimes, she finds hersel

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you nooptions. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing sowould hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give,how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy andnightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for BellaSwan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for EdwardCullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf JacobBlack, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have ledher to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to eitherjoin the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fullyhuman life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribeshangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain ofunprecedented events is about to unfold with potentiallydevastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayedstrands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, thensca

尼克和艾米是一对具有完美吸引力的男女，是别人眼中的模范夫妻。艾米每天都用日记来记录婚后生活，每个结婚纪念日都会精心设置充满惊喜的“寻宝游戏”，但生活却不可阻挡地越来越平淡如水……然而，这仅仅是表象。 在他们结婚五周年纪念日当天，豪宅里美丽聪慧的女主人离奇失踪了！尼克焦虑无奈，通过媒体深情告白，然而，被发现的艾米的日记指向尼克有*的嫌疑……尼克的一连串谎言、欺瞒和失控也随之曝光，真相反转。顿时，人人都重新审视自己的枕边人，而这，才仅仅是开始。 'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I'veasked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not tothe person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloudover every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling?Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'Just how well can you ever know the person

'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' Lestat: a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom - as, pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across time for the secret of his own dark immortality.

There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do:he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away againafter barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, neverbecome a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of BooneCreek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of hislife, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as hislife seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettlingand mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain ofevents that will forever change the course of this young couple'smarriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story aboutthe love between a man and a woman and between a parent and achild. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays howthe same emotion that can break your heart is also the one thatwill ultimately heal it. While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and JeremyMarsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of thatnovel, it st