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With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
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“It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.
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“A stunner.”—Justin Cronin
“A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan’s Emerald City .” —The Denver Post
“If you begin this book, you’ll be loath to set it down until you’ve reached its end.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.”—Curtis Sittenfeld
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Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of Rilke’s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchell’s work has authority and power as poetry in its own right.

“吉陵”是个象征，“春秋”是一则寓言。
无数的吉陵接壤，就是中国
当代华语名家 李永平 一鸣惊人代表作
入选“二十世纪中文小说一百强”的当代经典
王德威、龙应台、齐邦媛、刘绍铭、余光中、颜元叔 推荐
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吉陵镇是一个罪恶之城。中国底层文化的道德传统置淫于万恶之首，万福巷的妓院正 是万恶之渊。刘老实的棺材店偏偏开在妓院的 中间，像是死亡对生命之大欲的嘲弄。刘老实跨在棺材板上刨木的姿势，与嫖客的姿势互为蒙太奇。他的年轻妻子长笙，白嫩的身躯裹着白衣，在这万恶之巷里成为污泥中的白莲，却逃不过被染的命运。
——余光中
总算盼到了一本真正好的小说。《吉陵春秋》像一颗坚实灿烂的宝石，在一大堆玻璃珠、塑胶珠中沉静的闪着幽光。
——龙应台
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小说写的是不知神州何处的一个小镇——吉陵，镇上有一条烟花巷唤作万福巷。娼寮聚集中却有一家棺材铺子，女主人长笙素颜白衣，如污泥中的白莲，却不知那样清纯的美会变成一种诅咒。六月十九迎神夜，全镇人在巷口看迎神，泼皮孙四房起歹意乘机作恶，长笙被辱自尽，丈夫刘老实发狂杀了孙四房的相好和老婆，锒铛入狱。
后报载刘老实越狱，吉陵镇上便谣传他要回来复仇。长笙被辱当日谁人没有罪？风声鹤唳，人人疑神疑鬼，说是长笙的冤魂白昼作祟，复仇者坐在苦楝树下等人……
全书以“十二瓣观音莲”的方式，用十二个互相联系的篇章将这个中心场景补全和升华，将读者的心一直提着到最后都不得解。

乡村牧师家庭出身的黑兹尔从小就希望长大后成为一名牧师，然而，在当兵参加战争的几年里，他的信仰发生了动摇——他发现自己的灵魂已然不复存在。复员后他离开家乡，到了一座名叫托金汉姆的城市，试图创立一个“没有耶稣的新教”，然而沉溺于物质生活中的公众对他有关罪恶信仰的谈论漠不关心，而他所宣传的这种新教竞被人利用——假冒先知以行骗……《智血》是一部融神秘宗教与黑暗暴力于一体的杰作。该书出版时，其古怪的情节与荒诞的人物使得许多评论家难以接受。直到今天，其哥特式恐怖、阴冷的风格仍不免令初读此书的读者为之震惊。

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--"Everything That Rises Must Converge "and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death--is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

美国南方作家当中有两位残疾的女性，一位是《伤心咖啡馆之歌》的作者麦卡勒斯，另一位就是被誉为“南方文学先知”的弗兰纳里•奥康纳。奥康纳的命运更为不幸，她只活了39岁，在她生命的最后15年里，不得不和家族遗传下来的红斑狼疮病作殊死的搏斗，待在农庄里饲养孔雀成了这个未婚女士最无奈的选择。卡佛小说里的那个养孔雀的女人，即来源于奥康纳。
奥康纳风格怪诞，独树一帜，对人性阴暗有着惊人的洞察。故事诡谲、阴郁到令人窒息，带有强烈的宗教意识。语言精准有力，常常在看似轻松幽默中抵达不测之深。《好人难寻》一书中的很多篇章被公认为是美国文学中的经典名篇，震撼和影响了一代又一代作家。

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary .

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation.

本书分为两部分：第一部分批判且赏识地检视现行的文化史模式，第二部分所描述的具体例子则是关于当前进行中的新类型研究。

《新文化史:历史学的"文化转向"》分为新文化史的理论与方法、新文化史家与新文化史两部分，主要内容包括：三个维度的转向；转向：1980年代；新文化史的三个理论来源；微观史学与新文化史；精彩纷呈的文化史；彼得·伯克与新文化史；林·亨特与新文化史；娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯与新文化史；罗伯特·达恩顿与新文化史；罗杰·夏蒂埃与新文化史等。

论文摘要：本文試圖以鄂豫皖蘇區的例子來說明，共產黨最初必須藉由與地方菁英的合作來深入地方與動員農民，當地方菁英後來成為了共產黨建立群眾政權的阻礙時，張國燾藉由肅反解決了那些桀驁不馴、尾大不掉的地方菁英。但是，這並不意味著共產黨自此之後能夠建立一個真正的群眾政權，由於大多數的群眾對於共產黨仍是缺乏認識與信仰，因此，共產黨依舊必須透過地方菁英來控制群眾與掠奪地方資源。只不過，與前一階段的地方菁英不同，這一批由張國燾所培育的新的地方菁英（有的仍是由舊的地方菁英轉化而來，有的則是自下層群眾提拔上來），較前一階段的地方菁英更為馴服。這就說明了，事實上，共產黨政權與國民黨政權最大的不同，並不在於前者是群眾政權，而後者不是；相反的，兩者其實都必須藉由地方菁英來進行統治，只不過，共產黨比國民黨更懂得如何去控制地方菁英罷了！整個說來，這是一個從合作到控制的過程。

译者序
《逻辑的力量》由美国西雅图太平洋大学的雷曼教授所著。1999 年出第一版。2002、2005 年又分别出了第二版和第三版。该书从根本上说，是一本非常好的逻辑学教材。该教材初为作者所在太平洋大学本科生使用，但很快就得到了推广，现在许多美国的大学和其它一些国家的大学都在用该书作为教材。该书第三版还开辟了网络教学模式，学习者可以通过网络进入在线逻辑辅导。
具体来说，我觉得该书主要有以下有三个重要特点：
第一，该书具有巨大的可读性和生动性。作者在表述上尽可能用生动的词语，在案例的选择上尽可能选用有趣的事例，练习也都是经过精挑细选的、能够充分地起到巩固所学知识点的作用。从教材的体系结构上，就可以领略到它在内容上的丰富性和充实性。正如作者所言，“最好的逻辑导论性课程应将传统逻辑（包括非形式逻辑）和现代符号逻辑都包括在内。对传统以及非形式方法的过分强调，会导致学生无法认识到逻辑提供的最有力的力量。而对符号方法的过分强调，则又很容易造成学生只会使用符号而不会将逻辑运用于日常论证中。”（前言）作者先是从论证、语言、谬误等非形式逻辑的角度入手，继而讲述词项逻辑、命题逻辑和谓词逻辑，最后介绍归纳和概率，可以说是将形式逻辑和非形式逻辑，将传统逻辑和现代逻辑，将演绎逻辑和归纳逻辑统一了起来。
第二，该书具有重要的学术价值。在内容上，作者既肯定用有效性作为判定推理和论证的标准，同时又不是将它作为唯一的标准。而是将这个标准推广到了可靠性和可信性。作者认为，一个论证是有效的，当其前提真时结论一定真，否则就是无效的。一个论证如果是有效的，而且前提也都是真实的，则该论证就是可靠的。所以无效的论证是不可靠的，而且至少有一个虚假前提的有效论证也是不可靠的。可信性是与可靠性完全不同的标准。可信论证是一种强的论证。如果一个论证是强的，则当其前提真时其结论很可能是真的，其结论假是不大可能的，否则就是弱的。可信论证是强的而且前提都真。所以弱的论证是不可信论证，有一个假前提的论证也是不可信论证。可靠论证都不是可信的，因为有效的论证都不是强的。类似地，可信论证也都不是可靠的，因为强的论证都不是有效的。而且，带一个假前提的有效论证是不可靠的，但并不是不可信的，因为一个有效论证既不是强的也不是弱的。所以，有效性和强度分别是演绎逻辑和归纳逻辑各自用来衡量问题的标准和方法。作者还主张在形式标准外，还应坚持非形式的标准。一个推理如果在形式上无效，则肯定是无效的。但即使一个论证从形式上看有效，但也不一定就是有效的。因为其中的内容可能有问题。当然，这些内容中的问题也还可以从形式上来加以刻画。总之，该书无论对于一般读者，还是对于从事逻辑教学和科研的第一线人员，都将起到重要的指导和引导作用。
第三，该书作者具有非常广博的学术视野和宽广的学术领域。作者研究领域很广泛。不但对逻辑有很深的造诣，而且在宗教学等领域的教学和研究上也都取得了许多成就。从作者所举的一个一个案例中可以看出，作者对这些案例都有深刻和自觉的体会。由于作者学术视野开阔，所以，他也就能充分地吸取不同观点的优势，注意分析多种不同的看法，从而尽可能少地出现偏差。

《蒙面之城》作者，国内唯一两获老舍文学奖作家宁肯代表作品
以幽暗的笔触，书写我们这个时代的爱与荒芜
诺贝尔文学奖获得者莫言盛赞：“一位有着非凡勇气与才华的作家”
贾平凹、阎连科、马原、格非 一致推荐 池莉 专文作序
他是一个瘸子，精于数学，酷爱希区柯克，曾是传奇教师，后来机缘巧合成为一个 私家侦探。他有一个模样酷似高仓健的女助手，两人有着纠缠不清的情爱关系。受简女士之邀请，他来到北京郊外的一个生态庄园，为简女士写传记。但慢慢的，他发现庄园里隐藏着各种秘密。
他跟踪经常梦游的简女士和沉默寡言的马术教练来到一个隐蔽的场所，见到三位被简女士制作成活标本的男人，以及自己曾经爱恋的少女苏未未。于是，各种爱情与阴谋的戏码开始上演。
《环形山》通过描绘奇异的社会景观，呈现出人们病态的心理和极端的行为，暗示了现代人在物质武装下的精神荒芜。
宁肯是一位有着非凡勇气与才华的作家，他的作品将尖锐的政治批评与深刻的人性解剖结合在一起，将瑰丽神秘的西藏高原的风情与喧嚣的都市场景联系在一起，将现实的无奈生活与对理想人生境界的苦苦追求融为一体。但更为重要的是，他用丰沛的想象力和博取众采的胸怀，创作了属于他自己的故事和文体。
——莫言
执着于创伤记忆与西藏情结，对峙于历史与现实，始终保持着前驱的姿态，使宁肯成为一个中国最独有的小说家。他的独特性他人都无法取代，所创造的文学世界充满思考和令人不安的惊叹。他是中国最有个性和十分罕见的作家之一，就是放在世界文学的舞台上，也有自己独有的舞姿和歌声。
――阎连科
这是一部关于爱的小说。关于无视爱，践踏爱，侮辱爱，直到蹒跚学步跌跌撞撞试图走向那个叫做人类之爱的东西。
——池莉

你没读过《英国病人》的原著小说，至少也该看过根据它改编的同名电影吧？你应该对那个情深刻骨、抵死痴缠的故事仍然记忆犹新吧？在我看来，《英国病人》的小说比电影更隽永，也更复杂，而那个最擅于驾御复杂局面和深沉情感的作家就是翁达杰。
《菩萨凝视的岛屿》是麦可·翁达杰的2001年出版的新作，写的是他的出生地斯里兰卡的故事。女主角安霓尤离国多年后，出任人权组织的法医，回到斯里兰卡调查一连串的神秘失踪案件。在这一过程中，她目睹杀戮与阴谋，而误解和伤痛则折磨着人们的心灵。随着叙事的发展，读者会逐渐领悟到，这本小说表面上讲的是侦探悬疑故事，骨子里却是在讲授在乱世中如何自处的生命艺术。
翁达杰的小说不胜在情节，而胜在他诗一般优美的文笔，胜在他对人世深刻的观察与体悟。从某种意义上来说，翁达杰的小说比一本哲学书更能挑动你的思绪。我认为，他就是那种老于世故而又不失纯真的人，斯时今世的“稀有动物”啊！

Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first publication by Sun and Moon Press (the edition reprinted here) the publication "Library Journal "described the book as one that "is an intriguing journey that both illuminates and perplexes, teases and challenges, as it reveals an innovative artist at work."Lyn Hejinian is the author of "The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, Writing Is an Aid to Memory "and "A Border Comedy." She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California.

In this classic collection of 29 pieces that span half a century, Gary Snyder explores humans’ complex, ever-evolving attitudes toward the environment. He argues that nature is not separate from humanity, but intrinsic to it, and that since societies are natural constructs, it’s imperative to go beyond racial, ethnic, and religious identities to find a shared concern for acts that benefit humans and nonhumans alike. Included in the collection is his 1971 environmental manifesto Four Changes,” which, as he writes in a postscript, is unfortunately truer than ever. In this new edition, Snyder sends out a call-to-action that challenges all beings to take moral responsibility, a call that resounds with readers discovering the book for the first time or those returning to an old favorite.

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.

With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers. (amazon.com)
http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Poetry-1945-1960/dp/0520209532
index of authors
Helen Adam - John Ashbery - Paul Blackburn - Robin Blaser - Ebbe Borregaard - Bruce Boyd - Ray Bremser - Brother Antoninus - James Broughton - Paul Carroll - Gregory Corso - Robert Creeley - Edward Dorn - Kirby Doyle - Robert Duerden - Robert Duncan - Larry Eigner - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Edward Field - Allen Ginsberg - Madeline Gleason - Barbara Guest - LeRoi Jones - Jack Kerouac - Kenneth Koch - Philip Lamantia - Denise Levertov - Ron Loewinsohn - Edward Marshall - Michael McClure - David Meltzer - Frank O'Hara - Charles Olson - Joel Oppenheimer - Peter Orlovsky - Stuart Perkoff - James Schuyler - Gary Snyder - Gilbert Sorrentino - Jack Spicer - Lew Welch - Philip Whalen - John Wieners - Jonathan Williams (wiki page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_American_Poetry_1945-1960

Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell’s ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity, and includes lyrical love poetry, religious works, and biting satire. From the passionately erotic "To His Coy Mistress" to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual "On a Drop of Dew," in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery.