本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
On the run . . . Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has beencaptured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havocin Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore theevil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search ofStefan. In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother,Damon Salvatore, the handsome but deadly vampire who wants Elena,body and soul. Along with her childhood friend Matt, they set outfor the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being heldcaptive. It is rumored to be a world where vampires and demons roamfree, but humans must live enslaved to their supernatural masters.. . . Elena will stop at nothing to free Stefan. Yet with each passingday the tension between Elena and Damon grows, and she is facedwith a terrible decision: Which brother does she really want? Back in Fell's Church, Bonnie and Meredith have made some dirediscoveries. They hastily try to follow Elena and warn her—only tob
On the eve of the Globe's production of "Hamlet,"Shakespearean scholar Kate Shelton is given what is claimed to bethe Bard's long-lost work. When a killer decides to stagetheatrical murders as flesh-and-blood realities, Shelton mustdecipher a string of clues before anyone else dies.
Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged. Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. He's no angel, but she's sure there's a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes she's not alone - how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?
Thick Face, Black Heart is a profound distillation of ancientChinese wisdom and experience filtered through a modern Asianbusiness perspective. Blending stories and principles drawn fromChinese military history and modern entrepreneurship, author Chushows that success is achievable by anyone who follows the lessonsin this invaluable guide and learns how to: develop and employintuition as a business tool, master defeat, acquire a killerinstinct, solve the mystery of money, thrive among the cunning andruthless, and much more.
In "The Persian Expedition", Xenophon, a young Athenian noblewho sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitnessaccount of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand- to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persianthrone. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persianemployers, they were forced to march home through hundreds of milesof difficult terrain n adrift in a hostile country and underconstant attack from the unforgiving Persians and warlike tribes.In this outstanding de*ion of endurance and individualbravery, Xenophon, one of those chosen to lead the retreating army,provides a vivid narrative of the campaign and its aftermath, andhis account remains one of the best pictures we have of Greeksconfronting a 'barbarian' world.
This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called "today's Dostoevsky of crime literature." Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Th
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
This is the new Shardlake mystery from the No 1 bestsellingauthor of "REVELATION". Summer, 1545. England is at war. HenryVIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massiveFrench fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As theEnglish fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largestmilitia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency topay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflationand economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given anintriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr.Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed againsta young ward of the court, which have already involved onemysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey toPortsmouth. Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in acity preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes theopportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of EllenFettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emergingmysteries around the
Following the instant #1 New York Times bestseller StoneCold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's mostastonishing thriller yet. DIVINE JUSTICE Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wantedman in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men whodestroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finallysilenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations hecarried out prompt the highest levels of the U. S. government tounleash a massive manhunt. Yet behind the scenes, master spyMacklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He,more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead. With their friend andunofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club riskeverything to save him. Now as the hunters close in, Stone's flightfrom the demons of his past will take him from the power corridorsof Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Divine,Virginia-and into a world every bit as bloody and lethal as the onehe
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s great tragedy of a fall into evil. The Norton Critical Edition text is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. It is accompanied by an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A rich “Sources and Contexts” section provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth’s origins through the works of Seneca, Raphael Holinshed, and The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod. The cultural controversies surrounding the play—free will, predestination, witchcraft, tyrannicide, and equivocation—are debated by various authors. Adaptations of Macbeth are included for comparative reading, among them Welcome Msomi’s recent South African retelling, uMabatha. Four hundred years of critical interpretation of Macbeth are represented in seventeen judiciously-chosen essays, among them assessments by Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, A. C. Bradley, Janet Adelman, Derek Jacobi, Stephen O
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" is aclassic of American literature, written by one of America'sgreatest writers. First published in 1851, the book is set in amansion not unlike his cousin's many-gabled home in Salem,Massachusetts, which Hawthorne visited regularly. Hawthornebelieved "the wrong-doing of one generation lives into thesuccessive ones" and Hawthorne's story depicts the memorable livesof the residents of the house who were inextricably bound to thesins of their ancestors. Today, the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion ispopularly known as the House of the Seven Gables, is on TheNational Register of Historic Places, and is a museum open to thepublic.
Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any esemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
