米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个能

Synopsis This text is a magical fable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life''s path and, above all, following your dreams. The book tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a worldly treasure as fabulous as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers, and from there into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. With a visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, the author hopes that "The Alchemist" has the power to inspire nations and change people''s lives.

William J. Mann, author of the bestselling Kate: The WomanWho Was Hepburn, has now turned his attention to ElizabethTaylor, the quintessential movie star, and uses her biography toreveal the machinations of stardom and fame, from the studio era ofHollywood through the 1970s. How to Be a Movie Star isa totally fresh, brilliantly researched, and reported portrait ofElizabeth Taylor, as she became our first superstar. It isalso a fascinating revelation of cadre that got her there, from hermother to her managers, publicists, gossip columnists, and earlypaparazzi--and, not least of all, herself. Swathed in mink, sailing aboard her yachts, discarding husbandsnearly as frequently as she changed diamond earrings, Taylordominated the headlines for three glittering decades, rewritingrules, defying conventions, laying down the yardstick by whichcelebrity has been measured ever since. Focusing on the mostglamorous period in Taylor's career, Mann takes us inside herprivileged childhood in England to her schooling

When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered by threesavage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into thedepths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated tobecome the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agentMichael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discoversthat his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himselfis once again in the crosshairs of a killer known as October, oneof the most merciless assassins the world has ever known...

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars,is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuousvoyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailorsand stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonialupheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indiansand Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from anevangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. Astheir old family ties are washed away they, like their historicalcounterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais orship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will spancontinents, races and generations. The vast sweep of thishistorical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, therolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it isthe panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexedcolonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies sobreathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world'sfinest novelist

At once conservative and radical in her beliefs, she saw noconflict in idealizing and mythologizing the Irish peasantry, forexample, while her landlord husband introduced legislation thatwould, in part, lead to the widespread misery, poverty andstarvation of the Great Famine. Nevertheless, as founder of theAbbey Theatre, an outspoken opponent of censorship and mentor, museand mother-figure to W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory played a pivotalrole in shaping Irish history and dramatic history. Moreover,despite her parents' early predictions of spinsterhood, she was nomatronly figure, engaging in a passionate affair while newly-weddedand, as she approached 60, falling for a man almost 20 years herjunior.

lder teens and adult readers can't get enough of Gossip Girl, the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut in the bestselling Gossip Girl and titillated readers in the juicy sequel, You Know You Love Me. Now in All I Want Is Everything, readers will love her even more as Gossip Girl dishes up dose after hefty dose of dirt on all her friends-New York's wealthiest private school teens. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular new series.

AnAnita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel 'They will play with us, thendestroy us...They are what we fear in the dark.' The first warningis unexpected, calculated. The second warning is a gift: a plainwhite mask, carefully wrapped. But white is good -- white means weare only being watched. It seems the power that connects me, AnitaBlake, with Jean-Claude Vampire Master of the City and Richard,leader of the werewolves, is attracting very unwelcome attention --from creatures so feared no vampire will willingly speak theirname. They are known as the Harlequin, and they have the authorityto pass judgement upon me. It is forbidden to speak of theHarlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted is toface a sentence of death.

The unforgettablenovel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis ofconscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both aninstant bestseller and a critical success when it was firstpublished in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 andwas later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also aclassic. Compassionate,dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers tothe roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindnessand cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18million copies in print and translated into forty languages, thisregional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal.Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story.Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

What do you when your boyfriend tells you he wants space? You give him six thousand miles of it... Frankie's life is falling apart. In less than a week she's gone from having everything - a great job, lovely flat and gorgeous Hugh - to having nothing at all. Devastated, dumped and on the dole, she packs her bags and flies to Los Angeles to stay with an old friend. Her goal? To sort out her life and get over Hugh. She does not, repeat not, go to LA to fall head over heels for an American photographer called Reilly and to run away to Las Vegas. But what happens when Hugh wants her back? Who will she choose? And is it really true that whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Alexandra Potter's deliciously funny romantic comedy is for every girl who has ever dreamt of running away to Hollywood... or just wished she could reach for the stars.

We love the Gossip Girl girl series…there s enough gossip back-stabbing and bitching to character assassinate the entire population of Manhattan But all done over a lovely cup of skinny latte or three in the cute neigh bourhood coffee house These girls could write Carrie s Sex and the city colunmn in their steep Elle Girl.

Wich her fist two irresistible novels,Anna Maxted won the hearts of readers everyhere.Now,in Behaving Like Adults,she introduces us to twenty-nine-year-old Holly,the sunny,optimistic owner of Girl Meets Boy,a dating service for those who are“beautiful inside and out.”She's ambitious-and successful-with her matchmaking,but she hasn't quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams(her ex-fiance,Nick,seems unlidely to progress from his job as Mr.Elephant,children's party entertainer).So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile,she's game. But is one awful eveing the perfect-on-paper Stuart turns out to be a thorough cad,and Holly's belife in the goodness of humanity takes a hit,How can she make good matches when she can no longer trust her ability to read people?What does this mean for her business-and her romantic future?Holly's friends and colleagues are drawn into the compilcated drama of her life,while Holly learns her most important lesson:to truset herself. A must read for

Depuis Daniel Defoe et son Robinson Crusoé, le personnage dunaufragé solitaire a inspiré bien des écrivains. Chacun à samanière a réinventé l'aventure du naufrage, de la survie sur une?le déserte, de la rencontre avec Vendredi, de la solitude, duconflit entre la nature et la civilisation. Rassemblant des textesd'horizons variés et de nombreux documents iconographiques, cetteanthologie propose de découvrir le genre de la robinsonnade. Elleinvite à étudier ses motifs et ses procédés narratifs au fil dessiècles.

Former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is drawnback into the game to take on a cunning terrorist on one lastkilling spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part inGabriel's past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into aglobe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deeppersonal passions...

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friendProfessor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as aguinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in hisbiochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transportDick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14thcentury. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of SirHenry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. Ashis time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the dayshe must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently toget back into his world of centuries before ...

In "Love in a Dark Time", Colm Toibin looks at the life and workof some of the greatest and most influential artists of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figuressuch as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, bornnearly a hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing worldimpacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept theirhomosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changedeverything for them, both in their private lives and in the spiritof their work. 'Honest, stimulating, perceptive...Toibin treats hissubject with confidence and authority, both of which attributes areonly strengthened by his moderation of tone and the depth of hiscompassion. He writes with rare tenderness of figures as disparateas Elizabeth Bishop and Francis Bacon, Thomas Mann and RogerCasement, Thom Gunn and Pedro Almodovar' - John Banville, "IrishTimes". 'Such readings are crucial, for it is only whenhomosexuality is removed from the margins and placed at the veryheart

Contre l'avis de sa famille, Doruntine s'est mariée loin deson pays. Une nuit, elle est de retour. Qui l'a ramenée ? Son frèreKonstantin, comme elle le prétend ? Mais il est mort à la guerre !A-t-il alors ressuscité pour tenir la promesse qu'il lui avaitfaite d'aller la chercher en cas de malheur ? S'agit-il d'unimposteur ? Doruntine meurt. Mais de quoi ? Au c?ur de l'Albanie duMoyen Age, le mystère s'épaissit, les conflits s'exacerbent,donnant à lire un thriller captivant et insolite.

Serena's come home after getting kicked out of boarding school and everyone wants to know if the rumors are true. Was she pregnant and did she leave her baby in France? Is she really dealing drugs with her initial "S" stamped on each pill? And what's up with her clothes? Is she getting them from a homeless shelter? All Serena wants to do is hang with her friends and have her old life back. Unfortunately, her friends and old life don't seem to want her back. But don't waste any time feeling sorry for her. She's still rich and gorgeous, and manages to draw the attention of two photo-artists who ask her to model for them and then plaster the city with her pictures. (Well, pictures of some part of her. No one's really quite sure which part, though. Belly button, maybe?) Anyway, she also manages to make new friends and shows signs of adding some depth to her otherwise shallow world. Don't expect to walk away feeling enlightened after reading this page turner, however. It's not great literature, but it is

Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm, as each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars -- war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter or foretell its violent, bloody end. All Ardo Menikov ever dreamed of was to live in peace on the verdant colony world of Bountiful. But when the vicious Zerg Swarm attacked the colony and annihilated his loved ones, Ardo was forced to wake from his dream and accept the brutal realities of a war-torn galaxy. Now a confederate marine, charged with defending the worlds of the Terran confederacy, Ardo must come to terms with the painful memories of his past -- and the unsettling truths that may dominate his future.

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit. n Steinbeck

An inside look at one of the greatest business stories of our day: Lou Gerstner's dramatic transformation of IBM from a dying company into a nimble giant When Lou Gerstner took the helm at IBM in 1993, the company was headed toward bankruptcy. Six years later Big Blue was back and better than ever: its stock at an all-time high; its coffers filled with cash; and its market capitalization a healthy $169 billion. How did Gerstner do it? With unprecedented access to current and former IBM employees, and drawing upon more than 150 interviews and hundreds of pages of documents, journalist Doug Garr offers the first in-depth took at the IBM miracle and the man who made it happen. From the complete overhaul of the company's image and culture to the takeover of Lotus and the development of network technology, Garr vividly illustrates Gerstner's operating methods, management philosophy, and vision. Fastpaced and fascinating, IB14 Redux provides rare insight into the world of information services and offers presc

From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fictionof the great Russian-Jewish writer One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentiethcentury, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict throughdisturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russiansociety. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as“Story of My Dovecote” and “First Love,” or depicting Jewishgangsters in his native Odessa, Babel’s eye for the comical laidbare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, “Red Cavalry,” set inthe Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction. Byturns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel’sbest-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age. “Amazing not only as literature but as biography.” —RichardBernstein, The New York Times “Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.” —James Wood, The New Republic