Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and peopl

Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale. This Norton Critical Edition presents twelve of Tolstoy’s best-known stories, based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translations (except “Alyosha Gorshok”), which have been revised by the editor for enhanced comprehension and annotated for student readers. The Second Edition newly includes “A Prisoner in the Caucasus,” “Father Sergius,” and “After the Ball,” in addition to Michael Katz’s new translation of “Alyosha Gorshok.” Together these stories represent the best of the author’s short fiction before War and Peace and after Anna Karenina. “Backgrounds and Sources” includes two Tolstoy memoirs, A History of Yesterday (1851) and The Memoirs of a Madman (1884), as well as entries—expanded in the Second Edition—from Tolstoy’s “Diary for 1855” and selected letters (1858–95) that shed light on the author’s creative p

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The most famous day inliterature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom ofDublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires agirl on the beach, contemplates his wife's imminent adultery, and,late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the city'sred-light district. An earthy story, a virtuoso technical display,and a literary revolution all rolled into one, James Joyce's"Ulysses" is a touchstone of our modernity and one of the toweringachievements of the human mind.

Based on the life of her brother, this unforgettable bookchronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders-and remains animportant work in the development of the novel form, and a shiningexample of Woolf's genius and literary daring.

David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - anaudacious and hilarious look into the abyss of ordinary life. THEPALE KING remained unfinished at the time of his death, but it is adeeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless andas original as anything Wallace ever undertook.

Rostand's masterpiece-and the ultimate triumph of the greatFrench romantic tradition-is the magnificent hero-for-all-seasons,Cyrano de Bergerac.

Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the making! A macabre recurring dream ...revenge against a blackmailer ...jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience ...a stolen gemstone ...the haunting attraction of an ancient relic ...a race against time ...a tragic love triangle ...a body in a box ...an unexpected visitor from beyond the grave...Nine quintessential examples of Agatha Christie's brilliance are contained in this new collection of early short stories - including the very first one she ever wrote - and provide a unique glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making.

Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is JamesPatterson's best book ever Total For 36 years, James Patterson has writtenunputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book thatsurpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born towrite. World All over the world, brutal attacks are cripplingentire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches theescalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When hewitnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of theviolence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Ozraces to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks aregrowing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will beno place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imaginationand white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his verybest, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from"One of the best of the best." (TIME)

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manu* featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before ...A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.

First published in book form in 1885, William Dean Howells'stimeless epic of a self-made man, The Rise of Silas Lapham was thefirst important novel to center on the American businessman-and thefirst to treat its theme with a realism that was to foreshadow thework of modern writers.

aNo other popular writer of his time did any better writingthan you will find in The Call of the Wild.a--H. L. Mencken One ofthe greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenalpopularity in his own time and remains widely read throughout theworld. His work is characterized by thrilling action, an intuitivefeeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that oftenmanifests itself through violence. "The Call of the Wild," perhapsthe best novel ever written about animals, traces a dogas suddenentry into the wild and his education in survival among the wolves.Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative textsdrawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introducedby todayas most distinguished scholars and writers. Each bookfeatures a detailed chronology of the authoras life and career, andessay on the choice of the text, and notes. The contents of thisPaperback Classic are drawn from "Jack London: Novels and Stories,"volume number 6 in The Library of America series. I

This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects theauthor's philosophy of love and death.

Words of Love ...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, andpassion. Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving andmemorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by anilluminating introduction. Revisit the Classics: "He Is More Than aHero" by Sappho Sonnet 18 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of TrueMinds") by William Shakespeare "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord ByronEnjoy Old Favorites: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by AnneBradstreet "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear "When I WasOne and Twenty" by A. E. Housman Make Surprising Discoveries: "YourCatfish Friend" by Richard Brautigan "To Alice B. Toklas" byGertrude Stein "Valentine" by Donald Hall "True Love" by JudithViorst Carry this book wherever you go. It's a perfect companion toread alone or to share with that special person in your life. The100 Best Love Poems of all Time.

Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Callme Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride andPrejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. Andcertainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does formarriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and anunblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a countryvillage and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips,and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single manof good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer.Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival asan opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters.Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennetgirl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs.Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three youngerdaughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls,Jane and Elizabeth

经由这部20世纪的情爱经典，读者可以踏上战前法国知识分子心灵的黑暗之旅。 彼时，欧洲正疯狂滑向法西斯主义的深渊。正值西班牙内战，亨利 托普曼离开巴黎的病床，前往巴塞罗那，在那里见证了加泰罗尼亚大罢工。让他进退维谷的三个女人这时也来到了巴塞罗那：拉扎尔，马克思主义犹太人和政治活动家，如果被捕，她可能被佛朗哥政权迫害；蒂尔媞（多萝西娅），无节制的酒精沉迷者，她是托普曼的性伴侣；格耶妮，一个年轻女子，在巴黎期间，她曾照料发高烧的托普曼。 作为巴塔耶公开的政治作品之一，它将暴力、权力和死亡结成可怖的一体，同时探索性作为一种颠覆力量的模棱两可。

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fallpassionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry awealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is aromantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away theyears in 622 affairs——yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Herhusband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends thefuneral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he firstdeclared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann,masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finelytranslated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and nownewly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods,is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sellsits soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer AdrianLeverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated,overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game playedby art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-fouryears of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away hissoul--and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of theThird Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and itsembrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profoundmeditation on the

These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful,intensely moving, tender, and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood'smost accomplished and versatile gathering to date, " setting footon the middle ground / between body and word." Some draw onhistory, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, morepersonal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of thenatural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series ofmeditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit acontemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous,searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out ofhuman experience to seek a level between luminous memory and therealities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and thestrength to forgive.

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn inShakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love sowholly." "The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeersshows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in thepersons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and allplaces."

This collection remains the incomparableachievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man wholoved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.