Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas—an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all, Treasure Island is a complex study of good and evil, as embodied by that hero-villain, Long John Silver; the merry unscrupulous buccaneer-rogue whose greedy lust for gold cannot help but win the heart of every one who ever longed for romance, treasure, and adventure. Since its publication in 1883, Treasure Island has provided an enduring literary model for such eminent writers as Anthony Hope, Graham Greene, and Jorge Luis Borges. As David Daiches wrote: “Robert Louis Stevenson transformed the Victorian boys’ adventure into a classic of its kind.”

A BBC Radio six-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling novel, starring James McAvoy as Richard and Natalie Dormer as Door Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere...An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel called Islington. Adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, this captivating dramatisation features a stellar cast including David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head and David Schofield. Contains over 25 minutes of additional unbroadcast material, including extended scenes, bloopers and outtakes.

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s apocalyptic comic novel.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - are assembling.
Witchfinder Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor’s cryptic predictions.
Atlantis is rising; fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything, that is, but for an unlikely angel and demon duo, who have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. If they are to prevent Armageddon they’ve got to find and kill the one who will bring it about: the Antichrist himself. There’s just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him…
Adapted, sound designed and co-directed by Dirk Maggs (Neverwhere, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) this first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel features a large cast including Peter Serafinowicz, Mark Heap, Josie Lawrence and Paterson Joseph.

禁欲又放浪的维多利亚时代，坐拥家财的千金小姐莫德，日日被迫抄写舅舅的藏书，禁于深宅不得自由。直到某天，觊觎金钱又洞彻人心的“绅士”、出身贼窝却心思单纯的苏，携惊天骗局来到。
一部反转又反转的哥特式悬疑，一部充满十九世纪珍闻的纯文学，一部洋溢着生命体验的女性书写。

"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."
I said to myself.
Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious
bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.

中译名《杨柳风》。以下简介及作者简介均摘选转自http://www.douban.com/subject/1256292/，谢谢原作者：

《杨柳风》是一部妙趣横生的经典儿童小说，书中塑造了几个可爱的动物形象：胆小怕事但又生性喜欢冒险的鼹鼠，热情好客、充满浪漫诗趣的河鼠，侠义十足、具有领袖风范的老獾，喜欢吹牛、臭显、追求时髦的蟾蜍，敦厚老实的水獭――他们生活在河岸或者大森林里，有乐同享，有难同当。为了教育连连闯祸的蟾蜍，他们煞费苦心，对他说服教育；当蟾蜍的住宅被黄鼠狼们霸占以后，他们联合起来，齐心协力，用智慧战胜了比他们数量多得多的黄鼠狼，蟾蜍也从此改正身上的毛病，变成了一个好蟾蜍。（这是“通用”介绍，我对蟾蜍有不同意见，等看完再写书评。）
《杨柳风》于1908年出版，后来引起美国总统罗斯福的注意，他曾写信告诉作者，自己把《杨柳风》一口气读了三遍。格雷厄姆酷爱大自然，在他的笔下，对大自然的描写及其流畅、丰富、多姿多彩，《杨柳风》也因此被誉为英国散文体作品的典范。

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".

Originally published in 1929， A Room of One s Own eloquently states Woolf s conviction that in order to create works of genius， women must be freed from financial obligations and social restrictions.

《长日将尽》是诺奖得主石黑一雄1989年获布克奖的作品，也是石黑一雄最重要的代表作。小说以管家史蒂文斯的回忆展开，讲述了自己为达林顿勋爵服务的三十余年时光里的种种经历；虽然达到了职业巅峰，但史蒂文斯过于冷酷地压抑自我情感，追求完美履行职责，而在父亲临终前错过最后一面，之后又与爱情擦肩而过。小说通过主人公的回忆，将一个人的生命旅程在读者眼前抽丝剥茧，同时也折射出一战与二战之间那段非常时期的国际政治格局。

Orlando’s journey, from the court of Queen Elizabeth I to modern times will also be an internal one. He is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia’s Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation is a funny, exuberant tale which examines the very nature of sexuality.

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

Subject of this extraordinary novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "Radiant as To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."-Eudora Welty, from her Introduction.

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一场煮豆燃萁的王位拉锯战
掀起了英国历史上长达三十多年的血雨腥风
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从圣奥尔本斯战役的第一滴血
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命运之轮在这段岁月里急遽转动
在血色氤氲的英格兰土地上
奏响荡气回肠的英雄之歌
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1450~1485年间的玫瑰战争被认为是英国尤为错综复杂的历史之一。
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兰开斯特家族和约克家族之间三十多年血雨腥风的争斗，充斥着大量的区域性仇杀，强大的人格魅力则成为这个时期的主导力量：神秘且充满魅力的理查三世，王位之争的幕后黑手“立王者”沃里克。而诸如伊丽莎白·伍德维尔以及安茹的玛格丽特这些美貌而诡计多端的女人们，也曾一度统治着当时的王朝。
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作者大卫·格拉米特将这一复杂时期的种种史实置于15世纪英国王权及政治文化进一步发展的大背景下，在风格独具的叙事手法中，这段极富感染力的历史也着实吊足了读者的胃口。
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【权威推荐】
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作为著名的15世纪至16世纪早期英格兰历史学家，格拉米特博士成竹在胸，运笔老到。他敢于挑战却又不固执己见，对其他历史学家的意见亦十分珍视，将争议坦然公布，进而能够启发读者独立思考。因而这本书布局巧妙，涵括了实质性的代表人物、三大显赫的皇室及贵族的族谱以及涉及各个章节的权威参考书目。总之，这本书确实引人入胜，且读起来会令人兴味盎然。
——拉尔夫·A.格里菲斯（Ralph A.Griffiths）
斯旺西大学中世纪历史系名誉教授
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阅读大卫·格拉米特的《玫瑰战争简史》，你绝对会感到物超所值。一方面，作者巧妙地引导读者领略了错综复杂、颇具争议的玫瑰战争全貌。玫瑰战争始于1399年兰开斯特家族篡夺王位。大卫·格拉米特对玫瑰战争有着深刻的见解与卓越见识。另一方面，在书的末尾，读者又会对这场内战有一个新的审视。大卫·格拉米特重新强调该时期的人口规模和数量对历史的影响，同时还强调了政治文化发生的重大变化。大卫·格拉米特对15世纪末期英国历史上发挥了重要作用的事件的重新评估，无疑将在研究都铎王朝方面引发新的议论狂潮。
——A. J.波拉德（A. J.Pollard）
提塞德大学历史系名誉教授
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【《新视角全球简史》系列丛书简介】
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来自于英国 I. B. Tauris 出版公司的新视角全球简史系列丛书写作严谨、可读性强，对于我们在 21 世纪理解和感悟历史，可谓是提供了一个全新的角度。对于见仁见智的历史争论，这一系列独辟蹊径，试图基于史实本身对其做出全面而公正的解释，这样既能激起普通读者和历史爱好者的浓厚兴趣，也能进一步感染广大的历史学习者及专业学者。因此，在讲述历史领域的重要主题、思想史、宗教、政治、古典研究、哲学观点等内容时，本系列丛书特意避免使用平淡乏味、冷漠刻板的方式进行陈述——那只是给初学者讲授史学入门知识的通常做法。长期以来，这一系列丛书一直致力于给专业学者和普通读者提供可以帮助他们了解特定历史概况的基本史实。但除此之外，这套系列丛书还能起到更多的作用。例如，书中有一些令人耳目一新的观点，解释过去的人们在特定的背景下是如何理解某个历史主题，以及其中各种社会、文化因素可能产生的影响及作用。这种新颖的分析方式很有借鉴意义，可以帮助我们现在更好地理解这些特定的历史主题。
新视角全球简史系列丛书中众多的历史主题，相较于市场上其他同类丛书做了更为深入的研究和解析，同时内容却简洁而紧凑，不愧是“在介绍历史知识方面更为出类拔萃”（introductions with an edge）。

Set in London before World War I, this novel explores the truth of feelings and particularly the nature of love. It is, in that sense, a love story, but in the hands of Virginia Woolf, it transcends conventional romance to pose a series of crucial questions about women, intellectual freedom, and marriage.

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, casual acquaintances during their university years, spend graduation night together. It’s July 15, 1988, and their futures are up in the air. Dexter, the handsome, confident son of a well-to-do family, knows only that he wants “to be successful. . . . to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications” [p. 9]. Emma is determined to stay true to her left-leaning passions and ideals though she has little idea of how she’ll do it. They part the next day with vague promises to keep in touch as Dexter sets off to travel the world and Emma returns to her working-class family in Leeds to figure out what she’ll do next. Over the next twenty years, they’ll think about each other, sometimes to meet and reignite a relationship that neither can give up nor explain. One Day revisits Dexter and Emma every year on the anniversary of their first night together. Each July 15th becomes a snapshot of a particular time and place, offering an irresistible and often hilarious chronicle of the lovers they acquire, the careers they pursue, the culture that influences them, and the opportunities they embrace or squander. As their stories unfold, David Nicholls brilliantly explores the interplay of character and fate that shape our lives. Emma Morley和Dexter Mayhew在大学中偶然相识，共同度过了他们的毕业之夜。那是1988年7月15日，两人的未来都悬而未决。Dexter这个来自于富裕家庭的自信、英俊的男孩，只知道他未来的梦想是“想要成功…过刺激的生活、但不要有混乱和曲折。”Emma决定面对自己左倾的热情和梦想，但她也不知道该做些什么。第二天他们分开，Dexter去环游世界、Emma返回自己在英国利兹的工薪阶层家庭思考未来做些什么，在分别前二人模糊地约定保持联络。在接下来的20年中，两人挂念着彼此，有时见面重燃这种既不能割舍又难以解释的关系。 《一天》记录了Dexter和Emma两人在20年的跨度之中是如何度过7月15日——他们的纪念日——这一天的。每年的7月15日就像一个特定时空的快照，为我们展示了他们的恋人、事业、周边环境、获得或者是浪费掉的机会的编年史，使观众被深深吸引、经常忍俊不禁。随着他们故事的展开，我们看到了性格和命运会如何塑造我们的生活。

教宗逝世。在西斯廷教堂紧闭的大门后，来自全球各地的红衣主教将为世界上最秘密的选举投票。他们是虔诚的神职人员，但他们也有野心，也存在竞争。七十二个小时后，他们中的一人将成为世界上影响力最强的精神领袖。谁会是那个天选之人？