The text of this edition is based on the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by the author. It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy’s native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardy’s nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay "The Dorsetshire Laboure" (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardy’s Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novel’s manu* and its complicated history. "Criticism" collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel-six new to the Second Edition-from both contemporary and modern critics, including Virginia Woolf, Albert J. Guerard,

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.

Née à Londres en 1930, journaliste, RuthRendell a publié en 1964 la première enquête de l’inspecteurWexford. En quarante ans, elle a écrit plus de soixante livres,traduits en un vingtaine de langues et couronnés par les plusgrands prix de littérature policière (Edgar et Gold Dagger Award àdeux reprises ; pour l’ensemble de son ?uvre, le Cartier DiamondDagger et le grand Master Award des Mystery Writers of America).Elle est aujourd’hui considérée comme l’une des ? reines du crime?. Nommée baronne de l’Empire britannique par Tony Blair, ellesiège depuis 1997 à la chambre des Lords.

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapesmodern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as adream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knifein the dark - from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began forour narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their carand committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best leftundisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on theloose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stayalive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - withinhis family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane.The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. Theoldest can remember the Big Bang.

由于外星球的入侵，距离地球3亿光年的Lorien星球覆灭了。星球上仅存下来的9个孩子随着他们各自的守卫一起逃到地球上，分散在世界的各个角落。他们有着和人类一样的外表，说着人类的语言，过着普通的生活。然而他们又和地球人不同，继承了Lorien星球人的特点，他们各个天赋异禀，有着不同的超能力。他们希望随着自己的成长，将个人的能量锻炼的足够强大，以联合起来拯救毁灭的Lorien星球。 但是，他们的敌人，毁灭了Lorien星球的Mogadorians星球要将他们赶尽杀绝，派人一路来到地球追杀他们.9个孩子中的前3个已经被杀，约翰 史密斯是第4个。 为了躲避追杀约翰和他的守卫亨利一直东躲西藏、居无定所，直到他在俄亥俄州的一个小镇上遇到了一个叫萨拉的地球女孩。他决定不再躲藏，他要待在这里，勇敢面对自己的命运，面对敌人的追杀。约翰会如何运用

*消息 罗琳于2月1日更新了她的官方网站，里面登出了Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的出版日期。哈利波特7将于今年7月21日英国夏令时间00：01分开始发售。当然，今年也是《哈利波特与魔法石》的发售十周年纪念。 太阳报消息，罗琳在 Balmoral 旅馆的大理石像后边写下了下面的内容：“罗琳于2007年1月11日在此房间(652) 内完成Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的写作。”现在这条消息目前已经得到了BBC的证实。 The latest news about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows March 29th Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to release the book jacket images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling, to be published on 21st July 2007. The cover illustration for the children’s edition is by Jason Cockcroft, who drew the cover illustrations for the previous two Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Har

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal fro

"l just feel so incredibly lucky. Sometimes still can'tbelieve it's all happening to me Leona's life is areal-life fairytale.Three yearsago she was anordinary gid with an incrediblevoice, working as a daydreamingwaitressand wondering if she would ever have achance to sing. Then came The X Factor- the show thattransformed her life…… Leona is now one of the biggest stars in theworld, withrecord-breaking hits and adoredby her millions of fans. In DREAMS, Leona tells her incredible storyfor the first time.Packed with exclusivebehind-the-scenes photographs, she opensupabout her life behind the headlines and reveals exactly what itfeels like when allyour dreams come true.

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,

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The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentiethcentury, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translationin 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its youngauthor to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftiethanniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out anew translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimedtranslator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealthof detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-availablereference works; and from the author himself. The result is atranslation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm,restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of theoriginal work. After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything,gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocationsare still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, theindomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother,Agnes;

This is the new "Roy Grace" novel from the bestselling author of "Dead Tomorrow". Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you...The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed 'Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themse

"A lot of people seem to have the wrong idea about me. In fact, pretty much everything I read about myself is totally ridiculous.... I've finally decided to let the world know: Okay, I get it." Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about. Her name is on everyone's lips, but can she help it if she was born rich and privileged? Now, with a sly sense of humor and a big wink at her media image, Paris lets you in for a sneak peek at the life of a real, live heiress/model/actress/singer/it-girl and tells you how anyone can live a fairy-tale life like hers. Featuring more than three hundred fabulous color photos of Paris, Confessions of an Heiress is a look at life from the unique perspective of a young woman who has the whole world at her stiletto-clad feet.

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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book! 作者简介： William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great

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Que reste-t-il des émotions, des rêves, des désirs quandon dispara?t? L'homme d'Aden, l'empoisonneur de Harrar sont-ils lesmêmes que l'adolescent furieux qui poussa une nuit la porte du caféde la rue Madame, son regard sombre passant sur un enfant de neufans qui était mon grand-père? Je marche dans toutes ces rues,j'entends le bruit de mes talons qui résonne dans la nuit, rueVictor-Cousin, rue Serpente, place Maubert, dans les rues de laContrescarpe.Celui que je cherche n'a plus de nom. Il est moinsqu'une ombre ... Lire la suite , moins qu'une trace, moins qu'un fant?me. Il est enmoi comme une vibration, comme un désir, comme un élan del'imagination, un rebond du cSur, pour mieux m'envoler. D'ailleursje prends demain l'avion pour l'autre bout du monde. L'autreextrémité du temps

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

Et si pour une fois, la tribu Malaussène s'agrandissait par lefils, et non par la mère ? Et si Malaussène, rescapé, recousu,réanimé d'un précédent épisode (La Petite Marchande de prose)décidait de sauter le pas avec sa Julie d'amour, revenue elle aussid'encore plus loin (La Fée carabine) ? C'est vrai que d'habitude,dans la tribu, on fête une naissance à chaque fois que la mère estamoureuse : elle part vivre son amour loin des yeux mais jamaisloin du coeur, et puis elle "réappara?t", enceinte, pour repartirsit?t le petit nouveau bien arrivé. Mais cette fois, elle estrevenue toute seule, désemparée et muette. Alors, c'est au tour deBen de prendre la relève. Sauf qu'évidemment, à Belleville, ?a nepeut pas se passer aussi simplement : sinon on ne serait pas chezles Malaussène... Pour la quatrième fois, Pennac nous fait la gr?ce de redonner vie àson héros, et comme les enfants quand Ben leur raconte deshistoires, on se surprend presque à crier "la suite, la suite !". --Karla Manuele

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill,Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from therest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into itand fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands inthe neighboring town are divided from their families, and carsexplode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where itcame from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, findshimself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper ownerJulia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, aselect-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big JimRennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horriblesecret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Domeitself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.