[英文原版]Catch-22(Paperback)/JosephHeller 第二十二条军规 作者 : Joseph Heller 出版社: Vintage Classics 副标题: 50th Anniversary Edition 出版年: 2011-6-23 页数: 544 定价: GBP 7.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780099529125 Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (英语) 平装 内容简介 A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of twelveshort stories by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, is considereda milestone in the genre of detective fiction. With SherlockHolmes’s clever disguises and ability to solve even the mostelusive mysteries, as well as Holmes’s loyal friend and biographer,Dr. Watson, who narrates most of the stories, Doyle’s suspensefulstories and well-developed characters keep readers on the edges oftheir seats. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classicsseries, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a must-have additionto the libraries of all classic literature lovers.
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"Criticism" features ten essays on The Book of theCourtier , which represent the best interpretations from theUnited States, Italy, and England including the backgrounds-richessays by Amedeo Quondam and James Hankins. A SelectedBibliography, a Chronology, and an Index are included.
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.
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace isat once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, anda celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seenclearly in the multitude of characters in this massivechronicle--all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out ofthis complex narrative emerges a profound examination of theindividual's place in the historical process, one that makes itclear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers andplaced War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad": " "To readhim . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within usthat is fundamental and sane."
