《现实一种》里的三篇作品记录了我曾经有过的疯狂，暴力和血腥在字里行间如涛般涌动着，这是从恶梦出发抵达梦魇的叙述。为此，当时有人认为我血管里流淌的不是血，而是冰碴子。 ——余华

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Leading sociologist Amitai Etzioni brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid introduction in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.

This fully revised and updated version of Anthony Giddens's Sociology, now in its fifth edition, offers an unrivalled introduction for students new to the subject - lucid, lively, authoritative and original. Written by one of the world's leading sociologists, this comprehensive textbook manages to be clear, accessible and jargon-free, but without oversimplifying complex debates.Earlier editions of Sociology broke new ground by incorporating cutting-edge debates, such as the impact of globalisation, into an introductory text. This fifth edition remains a state of the art textbook, with fresh and engaging new material added throughout. While covering all of the core topics of sociology, the fifth edition also includes a great deal of substantive new material, ensuring that students are introduced to the most recent sociological debates. Throughout, the book weaves together classical and contemporary theory and data, and provides a wide range of everyday examples to which students can easily relate.The fifth edition also benefits from:¢ New discussions of global inequality, disability, ageing and the life course, risk, the network society, and terrorism, as well as many other additional and up-to-date topics.¢ Numerous learning aids in every chapter, such as summary points, questions for further thought, and additional reading suggestions, which help to reinforce students' knowledge.¢ Lots of extra photographs, diagrams, case studies and cartoons, to bring ideas to life and fire students' imaginations.¢ High-quality supplementary resources on a dedicated website, including a full instructors' manual and additional student aids, all specially designed to stimulate students' learning and critical thinking.The fifth edition of this classic textbook is an ideal teaching text for first-year university and college courses, and will be essential reading for all students who are looking for an exciting, authoritative and easy-to-follow introduction to sociology.

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A TABLE OF CONTENTS
MY LAST FLAPPERS
1 THE JELLY-BEAN.
2 THE CAMEL’S BACK
3 MAY DAY
4 PORCELAIN AND PINK
FANTASIES
1 THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ
2 THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
3 TARQUIN OF CHEAPSIDE
4 THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS OR OF CHASTITY
5 “O RUSSET WITCH!”
UNCLASSIFIED MASTERPIECES
1 THE LEES OF HAPPINESS
2 MR. ICKY
3 THE QUINTESSENCE OF QUAINTNESS IN ONE ACT
4 JEMINA, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons.
Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you.A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies.But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living？
‘Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance’.

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.

《告别天堂》是我刚刚过完二十一岁生日的时候完成的第一部长篇。对于我来说，这本书的确意味着我和我自已的少年时代告别，可是我却并不觉得它是一本“青春小说”，或者说，并不全是。因为对于这个故事，“青春”只是背景，“爱情”只是框架，“成长”只是情节，而我真正想要讲述和探讨的是“奉献”。

本书为国内目前第一部反映1980～1990年香港小说创作整体风貌的选本。所收23篇小说均为当代香港知名小说家的中短篇佳作。

随笔集《熬至滴水成珠》是自《有了快感你就喊》问世３年以来，池莉出版的第一本新书。她在书中记录了普通女人、母亲和作家等不同身份对其日常生活的撕扯，以及她对这种撕扯的平衡。此外，还如实地记录了写作状态中的焦灼与喜悦
熬至滴水成珠》全书可谓是池莉人生经验的提炼和感悟。
全书分为两个部分：如是我闻及我闻如是。第一部分纪录的是作为普通女人、母亲的池莉在衣食住行、相夫教女生活中的人间烟火，其中池莉对女儿的自由式教育更是体现出了作家鲜为人知的一面。第二部分记录的是作为作家的池莉的阅读和写作，对古今中外作家的个人阅读，写作状态的记录。

《梦的解析》引入了本我概念，描述了弗洛伊德的潜意识理论，用于解释梦。根据弗洛伊德的观点，梦都是“愿望的满足”—尝试用潜意识来解决各部分的冲突。（在后来的《超越快乐原则》中，弗洛伊德认为梦并不是显示愿望满足。）不过，由于潜意识中的信息不受拘束，通常让人难堪，前意识中的“稽察者”不允许它未经改变就进入意识。在梦中，前意识比清醒时放松了此项职责，但是仍然在关注，于是潜意识被扭曲其意义，以通过审查。同样，梦中的形象通常并非它们显现的样子，按照弗洛伊德所说，需要用潜意识的结构进行更深的解释。

《心理控制术》自1960年问世以来，一直伴随着马尔茨博士享誉全球，激励和改变了3000多万读者的生活。作者通过大量案例，包括许多著名奥运选手、职业运动员、教练、高尔夫球手、竞技牛仔、运动心理专家、企业管理人员、推销员、娱乐界人士等的切身经历，阐明了心理控制主在改变人们生活中的神奇作用。在这一专门针对21世纪人们的最新修订版中，作者除了保留原作的核心内容外，又增加了大量最新案例。通过本书，您将学会：
如何唤醒你的自动成功机制；高尔夫选手杰克·尼克劳斯是如何运用本书方法获得成功的；“心灵剧院”如何帮你自信、有力地推销和谈判；如何让你从错误信念的催眠中苏醒过来；如何让你更加充满勇气地生活；如何培养一种快乐的习惯；奥运潜水冠军格莱戈·劳格尼斯如何运用此法消除临场焦虑……

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the 'roaring twenties' and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore of the American seaboard in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, Jay Gatsby and the dark mystery which surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.

小说的主人公是一位自称名叫田村卡夫卡——作者始终未交代其真名——的少年。他在十五岁生日前夜独自离家出走，乘坐夜行长途巴士远赴四国。出走的原因是为了逃避父亲所作的比俄底浦斯王还要可怕的预言：尔将弑父，将与尔母、尔姐交合。卡夫卡四岁时，母亲突然失踪，带走了比卡夫卡年长四岁、其实是田村家养女的姐姐，不知何故却将亲生儿子抛弃。他从未见过母亲的照片，甚至连名字也不知道。仿佛是运命在冥冥之中引导，他偶然来到某私立图书馆，遂栖身于此。馆长佐伯女士是位四十多岁气质高雅的美妇，有着波澜曲折的神秘身世。卡夫卡疑心她是自己的生母，佐伯却对此不置可否。卡夫卡恋上了佐伯，并与之发生肉体关系。小说还另设一条副线，副线的主角是老人中田，他在二战期间读小学时，经历过一次神秘的昏迷事件，从此丧失了记忆，将学过的知识完全忘记，甚至不会认字计数，却获得了与猫对话的神秘能力。中田在神智失控的情况下杀死了一个自称焦尼·沃卡（Johnny Walker）、打扮得酷似那著名威士忌酒商标上所画的英国绅士的狂人，一路搭车也来到此地。小说共分49章，奇数章基本上用写实手法讲述卡夫卡的故事，偶数章则用魔幻手法展现中田的奇遇。两种手法交互使用，编织出极富强烈虚构色彩的、奇幻诡诘的现代寓言。佐伯是将这两个故事联结为一体的结合点，而弑父的预言似乎最终也未能避免，因为狂人焦尼·沃卡居然是卡夫卡生父乔装改扮的，真正的凶手也并非中田……

书中收录了史铁有关于陕北的所有作品，其中《我的遥远的清平湾》公认为作者成名作，其他还有《插队的故事》和《黄土地情歌》等名篇。

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Paul’s death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of his family’s future. A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear. He believes himself safe from all emotional entanglements—until a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer makes him an unwitting subject. Each man draws Fenno into territories of the heart he has never braved before, leading him toward an almost unbearable loss that will reveal to him the nature of love.
Love in its limitless forms—between husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and children—is the force that moves these characters’ lives, which collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. This time it is Fenno who meets and captivates Fern, the same woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years before. Now pregnant with a son of her own, Fern, like Fenno and Paul before him, must make peace with her past to embrace her future. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart—how family ties, both those we’re born into and those we make, can offer us redemption and joy.

尽管大多数人并不熟悉他的文字，但由于诺贝尔文学奖评委马悦然曾说过，“曹乃谦和李锐、莫言一样都有希望获得诺贝尔文学奖”，人们开始关注他。曹乃谦《到黑夜想你没办法》由29个短篇小说和一个中篇小说汇成一个长篇小说，小说的背景是1973年、1974年的塞北农村温家窑，故事里头的人物多半是一些可怜的光棍儿，除了渴望吃饱以外，他们都渴望跟女人“做那个啥”。书中对食欲和性欲饥渴的描写达到了极至，而曹乃谦这个37岁才开始写小说、现年58岁的大同警察说，书里写的故事都是真实发生的。书中多次出现的“要饭调”使全书有一股浓浓的莜面味。
《到黑夜想你没办法》
温家窑是曹乃谦小说中故事的发生地，1974年曹乃谦曾被派到这里给插队青年带队，在温家窑一年的生活，深深震撼了曹乃谦。而那首在当地叫“要饭调”、“烂席片”的信天游，也成为了他小说的“主旋律”。
当年因为和朋友打赌，曹乃谦开始写小说。1988年《温家窑风景》系列小说的第一部分在《北京文学》发表后，得到了著名作家汪曾祺的好评。汪曾祺还向曹乃谦建议，书名可以改为《到黑夜想你没办法》，而这个题目则取自书中唱到的“要饭调”：“白天想你墙头上爬，到黑夜想你没办法。”
不过，当长篇小说《到黑夜想你没办法》完成后，却在国内经历了10年无出版社问津的尴尬。直到一个偶然的机会，曹乃谦遇到了诺贝尔文学奖的评委马悦然，在他的推荐下该书才由台湾地区天下文化书坊出版，后来又被马悦然翻译成瑞典文出版。而在沉寂多年后，这本被誉为“最有希望获得诺贝尔文学奖”的小说，今年4月底终于在内地面市。

《尤利西斯》被誉为意识流小说的开山之作。作者乔伊斯一反传统的写作方法，使用极为怪诞的手法，展现发生在都柏林一天十八小时中的种种事情，每一小时写一章，最后一章描写女主人公的性心理，整章只有前后两个标点符号，堪称文学一绝。加以这部作品是否属淫书的争论，在西方曾两上法庭，解禁后其影响更大。2000年英美一些重要媒体，一致将《尤利西斯》列为20世纪世界最富影响的名著之一。

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.

本书以独特的艺术形式，表现出文学创作上的新观念和新技巧，小说以追忆的手段，借助超越时空的潜在意识，不时交叉地重现已逝去的岁月，从中抒发对故人，往事的无限怀念和难以排除的惆怅。这种写法不仅对当时小说写作的传统模式是一种突破，而且对日后形形色色新小说流派的出现，也产生了深远的影响。
译林社原译的《追忆似水年华》曾获“全国优秀畅销书奖”、“第一届全国优秀外国文学图书奖一等奖”。由于原先译本的版权已到期,加之该译本是由十五位译者合译而成,风格不尽统一,留下了诸多缺憾。译林社这次由原复旦大学法语系教授、著名翻译家、法国普鲁斯特研究会在我国的惟一通讯研究员徐和瑾先生重译该书，并在法文版本的选择和一些具体词汇的翻译上获得了法国普鲁斯特研究中心主任让·米伊的大力支持。