Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of TheBest American Short Stories have launched literary careers,showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmedfor all time the significance of the short story in our nationalliterature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURYbrings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories thatrepresent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in thisquintessentially American literary genre. This expanded editionincludes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 toround out the century, as well as an index including every storypublished in the series. Of all the writers whose work has appearedin the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of thelast five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his mostrecent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison tochoose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is"extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of thi

The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts'own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon isconsidered the definitive history of the Apollo moonmissions-arguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, usingnever-before-published quotes taken from his in-depth interviewswith twenty-three of the twenty-four Apollo lunar astronauts,Chaikin and his collaborator, Victoria Kohl, have created anextraordinary account of the lunar missions. In Voices from theMoon the astronauts vividly recount their experiences inintimate detail; their distinct personalities and remarkably variedperspectives emerge from their candid and deeply personalreflections. Carefully assembled into a narrative that reflects theentire arc of the lunar journey, Voices from the Moon captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book.Paired with their own words are 160 images taken from NASA's newhigh-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during themis

Sue Hubbell， DarhanIn the wake of Stieg Larsson’s best-sellingnovels, readers are discovering the rich trove of modernScandinavian crime fiction. If you’ve devoured the Millenniumtrilogy and are looking for your next read, Karin Fossum and herbone-chillingly bleak psychological thrillers have won theadmiration of the likes of Ruth Rendell and Colin Dexter (ofInspector Morse fame). In Bad Intentions, the newest installment in the Inspector Sejerseries since The Water’s Edge in 2009, Konrad Sejer must face downhis memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpsesof troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. Hispsychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital,Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by amysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown oneyear earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejerhesitates to call it a suicide. Then another corpse is f

One of the truly legendary figures of American history, thesoldier, explorer, and colonist Captain John Smith was a vivid andprolific chronicler of the beginnings of English settlement in theNew World. This volume brings together seven of his works, alongwith 16 additional narratives by 13 other writers, that recountfirsthand the tragic, harrowing, and dramatic events of thesettlement of Roanoke and Jamestown. A founder of Jamestown in 1607, Smith's courage, determination,and leadership proved crucial to its survival. A True Relationtells of the colony's perilous first year, while The Proceedingsand The Generall Historie continue the story of its struggle tosurvive and prosper. A De*ion of New England and New EnglandsTrials describe Smith's exploration of the northern coast and theprospects for its settlement. In The True Travels Smith recalls hisadventures as a soldier in Eastern Europe and his amazing escapefrom Turkish slavery. Advertisements for the UnexperiencedPlanters, his last book, is a

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss--enemy of bores,self-pity, and gossip less than fresh--had just finished taking ona subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirmsthat, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was themost entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his classbut occasionally its critic, he returns us to his Society whichwas, he maintains, less interesting than its members admitted. Youmay differ as he unfurls his life with dignity, summoning hisfamily (particularly his father who suffered from depression andforgave him for hating sports) and intimates. Brooke Astor and hercircle are here, along with glimpses of Jacqueline Onassis. Mostmemorable, though, is his way with those outside the salon: thecranky maid; the maiden aunt, perpetually out of place; theless-than-well-born boy who threw himself from a window over awoman and a man. Here is Auchincloss, an American master,being Auchincloss, a rare eye, a generous and lively spirit to theend

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundredbooks later, he personally collected twenty-five of his storieswritten before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were firstpublished in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of themappeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by EvanHunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (apseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or HuntCollins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College). Here are kidsin trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs.Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are copsand robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter tobecome Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells howand why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendarycareer.

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist CharlesA. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household inAmerica. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address,publicly blamed the Jews for selshly pushing America toward apointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking ofce as thethirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated acordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europeand virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept withoutdifculty. What then followed in America is the historical settingfor this startling new book by Pulitzer Prizewinner Philip Roth,who recounts what it was like for his Newark family and for amillion such families all over the country during the menacingyears of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens whohappened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

Late one summer evening, Wilberforce—young, rich,work-obsessed, and self-contained—makes an unexpected detour on theway home from work and unwittingly takes the first step on ajourney that will change his life. His uncharacteristicallyimpulsive act leads him to the home of Francis Black, an eccentricand enigmatic wine merchant. Wine and hospitality flow freely inFrancis Black's cellar, and Wilberforce finds himself drawn into alife he never could have imagined. Infatuated by his newfound tastefor fine wines, his new friends, and the woman whom he willeventually marry, he believes he has finally found happiness. ButWilberforce will learn that the cellar holds some unpalatablesecrets and that passion comes at a price. Chronicling the vintageyears of Wilberforce's life, Bordeaux is a haunting story ofobsession and addiction, loyalty and betrayal.

A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and belovedoutlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historicalnovelist. According to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men,one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattlebarons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every se?orita inthe American Southwest. In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeplyinto the historical record to find a truth more remarkable than thelegend, and draws a fresh, nuanced portrait of this outlaw'sdramatic and violent life. Billy the Kid met his celebrated end atthe hands of Pat Garrett, his one-time carousing partner turnedsheriff, who tracked Billy down after the jail break that made himfamous. In Vernon's telling, the crucial event of Billy's life wasthe Lincoln County War, a conflict between a ring of Irishmen incontrol of Lincoln, New Mexico, and a newcomer from England, JohnTunstall, who wanted to break their grip on the town. Billy signedon with Tunstall. The conflict spun out of control w

作者简介： J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.' As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines. Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25,

An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining , after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Over

A tale of heroism and adventure-a memoir about SergeantDarrell "Shifty" Powers, a highly respected Band of Brotherssoldier. When he was a boy growing up in the remote miningtown of Clinchco, Virginia, Shifty Powers's goal was to become thebest rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen tothe woods, to "see" without his eyes. Little did Shifty know hisfinely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives ofmany of his friends. Shifty's War is a tale of a soldier's blood-filled daysfighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland ofGermany, and the epic story of how one man's abilities as asharpshooter, along with an engagingly unassuming personality,propelled him to a life greater than he could have everimagined.

There is not a 'them' and an 'us'; there is really only 'us.' One People illustrates this thought through a collection of glorious photographs, accompanied by thoughtful essays, that capture the universality of the human experience in the very different contexts of our diverse world. In this book we present people in all stages of our common life cycle, reflecting a moment, emotion, ritual, or intimacy that, be it mundane or extraordinary, is recognisable across cultures and language barriers. Regardless of nationality or beliefs, we share the joy of birth, the celebration of life's special moments, the need to find meaning in our lives, the strength to endure, the resilience to keep trying and the sorrow of death. And above all, we share a curiosity about other people that inspires us to travel and to seek them out. And it is travel that facilitates this understanding, connection and humanity in all of us, and illuminates the shared paths and crossroads in our many journeys.

THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK has more than lived up to its name.Spanning the complete history of the sport from the fledglingleagues in the late 1870s to the powerhouses of the 1990s andrevealing in the process what a remarkable effect baseball has hadon our collective experience, this is THE book for any and allbaseball fans, certain to grace coffee and bedside tables alike.Designed with that wonderful nostalgia that the sport itself sooften evokes, THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK combines timeless imageswith a sweeping narrative history as well as essays on variousidols and icons by such heavy hitters as Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed,Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, and Geoge Will. This new editioncovers baseball through the nineties, the decade when home runrecords fell and the sport reclaimed its hold on America, andcelebrates the national game in ultimate style.

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of EnnetHouse, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and studentsat the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search forthe master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerouslyentertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state ofcatatonic bliss

Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stoodout as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the sea war was fought in thePacific. He would relentlessly attack the Japanese at everyopportunity, going through his supply of torpedoes in record timeon every patrol. In only nine months, he racked up an astoundinglist of achievements, including being the first American skipper towipe out an entire enemy convoy single-handedly.

In the early 1980s,Milton Menger, a wealthy art dealer livingin New Jersey, is called by an estranged friend, CharlesTrembleman, with whom he's had no contact in years. Charley is atraveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Company and his hands havejust been badly burned in a motel fire near Memphis.He needs adriver so he can continue traveling and selling.Milty rises to theoccasion.Together they embark on a journey across the South,visiting showrooms and staying in locally owned motels. Is it acoincidence that these motels keep going up in flames? With aDeLillo-like nostalgia for Americana, combined with the dark humorof a Coen brothers film, Ira Sher's storytelling draws the readerin like a moth to the flame.

In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today. 作者简介： Lu Xun (1881-1936) studied to be a doctor before turning to writing as the self-appointed literary physician of China's spiritual ills. After his death, he

In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic ofblindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for agroup of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for thereader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. Wereturn to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, asatirical commentary on government in general and democracy inparticular. Together here for the first time, this beautifuledition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Saramagofan.

"Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and aperfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said theNew York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said ofAuchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise ofone uncommon family in America's grand city. How did the familieswho live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they aretoday? As much a penetrating social history as it is engagingfiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whoseScottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textilebusiness during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on toseize prominent positions in the country's top schools andManhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family membersacross the generations recount their stories, illuminating livessteeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy. From women whooutsmart their foolish husbands, to ambitious lawyers who protectthe Carnochan name, to the family's artists and writers, all weighthe question tha