传说,夜深人静时分,走过那条小路的人,一定会满脸惊怖,血流满面,死在路上。她不信,一个人去了。最终怎么样呢?她死前拼尽全力说了两句话:“一定要死的!逃不掉的!”怪象环生,生灵罹难,一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生?何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER,HUGH GRANT AND COLIN FIRTH A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic,tragic insight into the edmise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire and lives in London and Los Angeles.She worked for several years for the BBCand now writes for various newspapers.Her first novel,Cause Celeb,was published by Picador in 1994.Bridget Jones's Diary was published to international acclaim in 1996,as was the sequel,Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason in 1999.
The Success of Cervantes's masterpiece,Don Quixote,was great and immediate,and its reputation soon spread beyond Spain,The Present volume contains the whole of the first part of the novel,which is complete in istelf,The importance of this great of novel is not merely,or mainly,that it put an end to the extravagant and outworn form of fiction,Loose in structure and uneven in workmanship,it remains unsurpassed as a masterpiece of droll humor,a picutue of Spanish life,as well as a gallery of immortal portraits.It is true of the life of the country of all great art,the successful combination of the partiular and the universal,It is true of the country and age of its production,and general human nature everywhere and always.compared with other the fiction of the Middle Ages,it is a triumphant satire,and compared with modern novels,it is the first and the most widely enjoned,As pertinent today as when it was first written,Don Quizote ranks among the great works of all time.
A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal...A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim's retarded young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura's lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects! THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christie's plays. Hailed as 'another Mousetrap' when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months and
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war withRussia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is aninexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his greatnovel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these,the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary PrinceAndrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrateTolstoy's philosophy.
From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwan--a master ofcontemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prize-winningnational bestseller Amsterdam --an enchanting work of fictionthat appeals equally to children and adults. First published in England as a children's book, TheDaydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatestnovelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitelyinterlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortunereveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of hischildhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peterexperiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with thewise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant;encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out forrevenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with uselessobjects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makespeople vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside agrown-up body and embarks on the truly fantast
在线阅读本书 Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright orprisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet anunknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative yearsincludes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grievinglyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of hisromance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution inhis renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexualdesires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of hisday, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His finalmasterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story ofhis own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. Thisedition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievementas a poet.
In Derry,Maine,four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing.Something that cahanged them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later,the boys are men who have gone their separate ways.though they still get together once a year,to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different.This time a man comes stumbling into their camp,lost,disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long,these old friends will be plundge into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creatur form another world.Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcaticher. 作者简介: Step King was born in Portland,Main e,in 1947.He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English,while his wife,tabitha,got her degree. It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptaion that set him on tis way to his present position sa perhaps the bests
Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon'EVENING STANDARD 'Delightfully observant nostalgia.., will strike a chord with both sexes' SHE 'A warm, funny romantic comedy' DAILY MAIL 'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' THE TIMES "Thirty means only going to the pub if there,s somewhere to sit down, Thiity means owning at least one classical CD, even if it's New That's What I Call Classical Vol 6. Thirty means calling off the search for the perfect partner because now, after al! thee years in the wilderness, you've finally found what you've been looking for." Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him.and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Within hours,his mum and dad
"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger'smost famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. Thetitle story recounts a Sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in"The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers' fan-letters. 'A Perfect Day forBananafish' is the first of the author's stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who wouldappear in much of Salinger's later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldestsibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida. --This text refers to analternate Paperback edition.
A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape hismother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part,struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreamsof prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off tofight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yatesportrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to hisheroic ideals. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettableportrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even aslife challenges them both.
'One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read...it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful' Lenny Henry Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is separated from her sister Nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous Shug Avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the support of women that enables her to leave the past behind and begin a new life.
Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with theintention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovettis an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. ButLovett's housemates have secrets of their own. As these mysteriousfigures vie for Lovett's allegiance, Barbary Shore playshavoc with our certainties, combining Kafkaesque unease withOrwellian paranoia and delivering its effects with a power thatMailer has made all his own.
Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.
Product De*ion Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies 'The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create genuinely chilling narratives in which the returning dead feature strongly. Sadly, these stories have been neglected for many years, but now, at last, they are back in print. In this wonderful collection of eerie, flesh-creeping yarns, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark delights to make you feel fearful. These vintage spooky stories, tinged with horror, are told in a bold, forthright manner that makes them seem as fresh and unsettling as today's headlines.
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not havemuch in the way of great expectations between his terrifyingexperience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and hishumiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful butmanipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevatedto wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettablecharacters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainablelove, and all of the happiness money can't buy. Great Expectationshas the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for anovel in the English language, according to John Irving, and J.Hillis Miller declares, Great Expectations is the most unified andconcentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world,and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.
Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that hisachievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition theydeserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himselfsanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated versionof Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents ofthe two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he diedin 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development ofLawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality anddistinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprintedhere are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality toconfirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers ofthe twentieth century.
Called out of retirement to serve as the new president`s national security adviser jack ryan quickly realizes that the prolbems of peace are fully as comples as those of ear enemies have become friends ,friends enemies and even the form of conflict has changed ,when one of those new enemies readies a strike not only at america`s territory ,but at the heart of her economy ,it is ryan who must somehow prepare an untested president to meet the challenge. for there is a debt of honour to be paid-and the price will be terrifyingly high……