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《羊脂球》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。《欧·亨利短篇小说选》欧·亨利是20世纪初期美国著名短篇小说家，发表
《羊脂球》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。《欧·亨利短篇小说选》欧·亨利是20世纪初期美国著名短篇小说家，发表
You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You'veprobably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style–themost widely read and employed English style manual–is available ina specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title'svast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantlybound edition of this time-tested classic. Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999,the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a briefoverview of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively byindividual writers as well as high school and college students ofwriting, it has conveyed the principles of English style tomillions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect giftfor writers of any age and ability level.
The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as oneof the american masters of the short story. The volume contains thecelebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive TheMisfit, as well as "The Displaced Person" and eight otherstories.
男人就怕不把他当回事的女人，因为他不知道该对这样的女人怎么办。 人生是不是很奇怪，得到的人追求过程而在过程中奋斗的人却无时不刻的想看到结果到底是什么。 谁都知道大泡泡是要破的，可是泡泡越吹越大的时候非常诱人，人们宁可相信它会无限制的大。 这个世界当然有正义，但她是深藏不露的。
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenantfarmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to headNorth. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, hereturns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield,imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of thecouple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third-- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and socialenslavement.
In this funny, contemporary first novel, a young pop musicjunkie finds that his myriad diversions after the breakup with hislongtime girlfriend are not as entertaining as he thought theywould be. "It is rare that a book so hilarious is so sharp aboutsex and manliness, memory and music."--"The New Yorker." Soon to bea major film from Touchstone Pictures starring John Cusack, JackBlack, and Lisa Bonet.
The imaginative breadth and the intellectual depth of The WildAss's Skin make it one of the greatest of Balzac's 'Etudesphilosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece ofshagreen, it expresses the peculiarly Balzacian idea of the humanwill and dramatises with startling urgency the choice betweenruthless self- gratification and asceticism, between vice andvirtue, between dissipation and restraint. The symbolism ispowerful but not overpowering: shrewd psychology, superblychiselled dialogue and the sheer energy of the de*ive passages-- the gambling den, the orgy, the devastating finale--give TheWild Ass's Skin a compelling and forceful realism.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walkerspeaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist inthirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Amongthe contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civilrights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and herdaughters healing words.
"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, an acclaimedtranslator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: a wealth ofdetailed scholarship, a wide range of newly available referenceworks, and the author himself. The result is a translation that ismore faithful to Grass's style and rhythm, restores omissions, andreflects more fully the complexity of the original work.After fiftyyears, "The Tin Drum" has, if anything, gained in power andrelevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, andstill amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; hisgrandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred M
From the moment these two legendary players took the court onopposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychologicalbattle. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick,with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jumpshot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him andwhose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. MagicJohnson was Mr. Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the rightmoves. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold.And he burned with an inextinguishable desire to win. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize themost thrilling rivalry in the NBA—East vs. West, physical vs.finesse, old school vs. Showtime, even white vs. black. Each pushedthe other to greatness, and together Bird and Johnson collectedeight NBA Championships and six MVP awards, helping to save afloundering NBA. At the start they were bitter rivals, but alongthe way they became lifelong friends.
Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for findingadventure. But ever since Sophie convinced her friends to startholding regular seances, life in Los Angeles is getting a littletoo dramatic even for Toots' tastes. When Ida receives a messagesuggesting that her late husband was murdered, Toots decides it'stime the Godmothers left L.A. for her hometown ofCharleston...Meanwhile, Mavis has been acting suspiciously andrefuses to divulge what she's up to. She should know by now thatIda, Toots, and Sophie will never let secrets rest or ignore afriend in need. And when the Godmothers discover that whoeverkilled Ida's husband has plans for Ida too, they'll do what they dobest - rally together, concoct a daring plan, and show the worldthere is no match for these formidable friends...
Flip Flippen is a personable Texan whose philosophy haschanged the lives of hundreds of thousands of people--from businessleaders like Jack Welch and Mark McCormack (founder of IMG), tosports figures like Terry Bradshaw and NASCAR drivers, to the150,000 people who trained with his company, The Flippen Group, in2005. His approach is deceptively simple: What if, instead of focusing on the things you already do well,you knew how to honestly identify your weaknesses...those habitualbehaviors that continually get in your way and prevent you fromever really succeeding in the way you know you could. It's theseweaknesses, your "personal constraints," that are really holdingyou back from success. If you could correct these behaviors, you'dsee a dramatic surge in productivity and a real improvement in allaspects of your life. That's the key to Flip Flippen's program: heteaches hundreds of thousands of people each year how to identifytheir personal obstacles and take the necessary steps to overcomethem.
