查尔斯•布考斯基（Charles Bukowski，1920～1994），20世纪美国最有影响力的诗人、小说家之一。阿尔贝•加缪称他为美国当代最伟大的作家，《时代周刊》评论他是美国底层社会的桂冠诗人。他的创作继往开来，独树一帜，被誉为“地狱的海明威”。
布考斯基年轻时做过洗碗工、卡车司机、邮差、门卫、仓库管理员、电梯操作员等多种底层工作，其写作的主题大多源自他的生活经历。
布考斯基善于洞察生活本身，《苦水音乐》是其短篇小说代表作，侧重描写社会边缘人的生活。落魄作家、无业游民、酒鬼、妓女，是布考斯基故事里的主人公，他们的生活卑微、肮脏、甚至疯狂，但现实世界又何尝不是如此。
因此书的出版，美国成立了一支同名的朋克摇滚乐队，名噪一时。

梦断白庄——少年十五二十时，徘徊迷惘的年纪，懵懂生涩的人生，这一对志同道合的青年友伴，共任友谊超越一切、信仰只是虚无飘渺、而实质美感和放纵快感的追求才是唯一的目标。
本书从一对少年的友谊入手，描写了伦敦近郊布赖兹赫德庄园一个贵族家庭的生活和命运。本书主人公塞巴斯蒂安出身贵族家庭，他的父亲老马奇梅因侯爵一战后抛下家人长期和情妇在威尼斯居住；他的母亲表面笃信宗教，却过着荒淫奢靡的生活。父母的生活丑闻给子女打下了耻辱的印记，扭曲了他们的天性。塞巴斯蒂安，在家庭的负累下终日以酒度日，潦倒一生。而长女朱莉娅，年轻美丽有思想，却由于宗教断送了爱情和幸福。
I am not I:thou art not he or she they are not they
作者热衷看齐的作品应该是《追忆逝水年华》，但神经质的中文读者很难不侦察到《红楼梦》的影子。——迈克

“1923年以来100本最佳英文小说”之一
“赛博朋克”圣经 • 史无前例的得奖记录：囊括雨果奖、星云奖、菲利普•迪克奖
这就是催生了《黑客帝国》的那部小说
它开启了赛博朋克这个文学类型，它给了我们“网络空间”这个词，它将这个世界带到了信息时代，它提供了无数灵感给《黑客帝国》《攻壳机动队》以及所有最先锋的音乐、时尚、游戏……
而它仍然新鲜得仿佛昨天才刚刚写出来，仍然眩目得可以震撼到未来三十年的人类。
“这部小说问世十年后，我们才终于认识到它的重大意义。” ——《纽约时报》
“这里有无数个大千世界，这是写给都市流浪人的歌，它如此耀眼，又如此颓靡……” ——《华盛顿邮报》
一个天才黑客，一个女杀手，一个特种部队军官，一个意识操控专家。他们受雇去做两件事：偷一把钥匙，获得一个密码。
他们是职业罪犯，同时也是无可救药的厌世者；他们自我放逐，同时也在下意识寻找一条回家的路。而他们的雇主，则是人类自有文明以来所遇到过的最强大对手……
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《荒野求生》（中文版）是Discovery频道《荒野求生》前主持人贝尔•格里尔斯迄今为止撰写的唯一自传。在书中，贝尔追溯了贝尔家族的信仰体系，回忆了自己从一名顽皮少年成长为户外探险家的心路历程，首次披露了攀登珠峰的过程以及拍摄《荒野求生》的种种细节，生动描述了他从一个热爱冒险的男孩成长为职业探险家的心路历程。对于荒野冒险，贝尔似乎有着本能的渴望和冲动，在他身上，一直有种强大的生命力，他不仅教会了我们如何在荒野逃生的技能，而且还向我们昭示了人在紧张压力下生命意志的巨大张力和对自由的无限追求。
他曾是英国怀特岛上的冒险少年，在荒野和海浪中顽皮而孤独地成长；他毕业于伊顿公学，从那里学会了什么是真正的英格兰精神，什么是自由。18岁，他在毕业旅行中徒步横穿印度北部，在喜马拉雅山下暗自发愿，终有一天会登上圣峰之巅。22岁，他破除万难、流尽汗水，加入世界上最卓越、神秘而勇猛的组织——英国空军特勤队，成为SAS中骄傲的一员。23岁，他从跳伞骨折的噩梦中奇迹般恢复，成功挑战自我，登山世界最高峰——珠穆朗玛峰。他与探索频道合作，拍摄了世界上最刺激的冒险节目《荒野求生》，足迹踏遍全球最险恶荒芜的绝境。他就是贝尔•格里尔斯，他的名字如今已家喻户晓，他是户外探险世界的王者，男人中的男人。究竟是什么样的成长造就了这样的一个男人？《荒野求生》将带领我们走进他的世界，去聆听属于他的人生故事。
首次讲述世界级极限探险家、野外生存大师贝尔•格里尔斯冒险心灵成长史，分享贝尔与家人、朋友之间的动人趣事，回顾参加SAS与攀登珠峰心路历程，解密《荒野求生》电视节目拍摄秘诀，爆料幕后精彩花絮，还原一个真诚、勇敢、坚毅、幽默的贝尔。贝尔•格里尔斯——天生冒险狂，在极限的边缘寻找最真实的自己。
1.最新修订升级，内有贝尔写给对中国读者的话，并附贝尔亲笔签名。
2.豪华精装。精美帅气，值得为这个神一般的男人收藏。贝尔是一种信仰。
3.随书附赠贝尔探险随身必备品——打火石，和贝尔一起擦出惊险、刺激的火花！
4.附赠贝尔写真海报，大气、震撼。
5.贝尔与家人亲密生活照大量发布，有很多贝尔小时候的萌图。

In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too eagerly leaving her bed to follow his destiny, and Sappho the only historical figure portrayed here describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon. In the poetic letters between Paris and Helen the lovers seem oblivious to the tragedy prophesied for them, while in another exchange the youthful Leander asserts his foolhardy eagerness to risk his life to be with his beloved Hero.

From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and political ideals. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans Licht, in this erudite and fascinating book, discusses in full every aspect of the Ancient Greeks' sexual life. Through literary, historical and artistic evidence, he presents an accurate, detailed picture of the position of women in Greek life, the erotic element in Greek religion and literature, the institutions of prostitution and make homosexuality and the more arcane sexual deviations indulged in by the Greeks. Particularly intriguing is his discussion of the Hetairae, female prostitutes who offered intellectual as well as sensual stimulation to their clients.

在二十世纪欧洲文学史上，像高尔斯华绥那样，生前同时受到两种截然相反的评价的作家是不多见的。一方面，他是诺贝尔文学奖获得者；另一方面，他遭到某些同时代作家的嘲笑，甚至被看作不懂小说创作力何物的文学家，认为向他请教创作技巧等于“向靴匠请教如何制作钟表”。 本书为“20世纪外国名家精品”系列中的一本，精选了他的名作16篇，你在本书中可以看到爱情、民生、人性、写战争，内容丰富，插画精美，是你不可不读的一本书。

Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy. The Court: "The charge here is theft of frozen chickens. Are you the defendant, sir?" Defendant: "No, sir, I'm the guy who stole the chickens."

In this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a literary device that she calls "Sapphic primitivism." The works vary widely in their form and content and include Olive Schreiner's proto-modernist exploration of New Womanhood, The Story of an African Farm; Virginia Woolf's high modernist "play-poem, " The Waves; Sylvia Townsend Warner's historical novel, Summer Will Show; and Willa Cather's Southern pastoral, Sapphira and the Slave Girl. In each, blackness and working-class culture are figured to represent sexual autonomy, including lesbianism, for white women. Sapphic primitivism exposes the ways several classes of identification were intertwined with the development of homosexual identities at the turn of the century. Sapphic primitivism is not, however, a means of disguising lesbian content. Rather, it is an aesthetic displacement device that simultaneously exposes lesbianism and exploits modern, primitivist modes of self-representation. Hackett's revelations of the mutual interests of those who study early twentieth-century constructions of race and sexuality and twenty-first-century feminists doing anti-racist and queer work are a major contribution to literary studies and identity theory.

Creating Prehistory deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars.
Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the inter-war period
Brings to life many fascinating and controversial personalities and their creeds, including the archaeologists O. G. S. Crawford, Mortimer Wheeler and Gordon Childe; Grafton Elliot Smith and W. H. R. Rivers (of ‘Regeneration’ fame); Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track; and the thunderous George Watson Macgregor Reid, who brought the Druids back to Stonehenge
Examines the production of archaeological knowledge as a social process, and the relationship between personalities, institutions, ideology, and power
Addresses the ongoing debates of the significance of sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury, and Maiden Castle

American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton, Amazon.com

在本书中，穆时英把他的眼光聚集“十里洋场”的夜总会、咖啡馆、酒吧、电影院、跑马厅等娱乐场所，追踪狐步舞、爵士乐、模特儿、霓虹灯的节奏，捕捉都市人敏感、纤细、复杂的心理感觉。他以圆熟的蒙太奇、意识流、象征主义、印象主义等表现手法，反映上个世纪30

萨特在书中设定主人公得了一种病症，并指出这种病症是每个人都可能得的，因此罗根了有时处在不适状态中而犯“恶心”，我们也可能犯“恶心”。罗根丁在搏斗，他企图摆脱他的真实存在，与过去的一个或某些艺术品、甚至一段爵士音乐（some of these days 这段时光的一瞬）来认同，去达到某种自由。这就是萨特在此书中所要表达的中心思想：“存在与自由”。

In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies. This is Sartre's first published novel and his first extended essay on existential philosophy.

本书作者以华北一个天主教村庄的田野调查为基础，重新理解韦伯在《新教伦理与资本主义精神》中提出的宗教社会学命题，指出问题的症结并不是宗教能否促进现代化，而是宗教究竟是否可能影响到伦理生活。
新教的独特之处在於它以一套有效的技术改变了日常生活的伦理；而作者所研究的这个天主教村庄中，天主教沒有形成这样一套技术，只是在仪式和组织上形成了天主教群体、一个亚群体、一个身分群体，但並未在伦理层面使天主教徒有异於普通农民。
教徒因为天主教的特殊身分而在义和团、文革中遭受特殊的待遇，於是又引发作者对苦难问题的关注。天主教的群体认同很大程度上就是在对苦难的敘述中形成的。作者详细讨论了教友们的记忆、敘事等技术，触及了人们对恶与受苦的态度，以及与神义论相关的一些问题。

《俗世奇人(修订版)》由19个短篇小说连缀构成，各篇文字极精短，半文半白，带有“三言两拍”笔意，作品的风格也接近古典传奇色彩，取话本文学旨趣。书中所讲之事，又多以清末民初天津卫市井生活为背景，每篇专讲一个传奇人物生平事迹，素材均收集于长期流传津门的民间传说，人物之奇特闻所未闻，故事之精妙叹为观止。

小泉八云搜集日本民间故事所创作的《怪谈》是日本灵异文学的代表作，是他在竭力领悟日本文化的精髓后，创作出的最著名的作品。
全书透过鬼眼看人生，描划了一个个在黑暗中或孤独或寂寞的故事，深得日本文学之三昧。其间的故事大多带有浓厚的扶桑乡土气息，还有一部分则源于中国的古典小说，有的将日本山海的雄浑瑰丽形诸文字，有的把自然描写和神话传说糅于一体，试看此中多少篇章，摊开来竟是满目萧索，幽雅而凄迷。那种阴阳两界间的对话、逾越、互换，是那么精彩奇妙、奇诡可怖，令读者在神秘、幽玄中感慨世态炎凉，叹息人间的诸多无奈。
从某种意义上说，《怪谈》就是日本历史的间接体现，同时也承载着东方共有的文化美感。全书所呈现出的东西方文明交融的美学境界，具有极高的欣赏价值和认识价值。
此译本辑录了小泉八云所有的50篇日本怪谈故事，未作任何删节。翻译以日文版《小泉八云全集》为底本，同时参校其他多种日文版、英文版，认真勘证，逐句逐段细致翻译，务求精益求精，使译文既古雅又不失畅晓。书中疑难之处，详加了注释。
精选数十幅与怪谈内容相关的浮世绘、屏风绘、书影、剧照等彩图，图文并茂，结合小泉八云典雅奇异的笔触，令读者恍若身临其境。

本书被誉为“日本的图文版《聊斋志异》”，它借用日本传统招鬼游戏“百物语”怪谈会，将兴盛于江户时代的种种怪谈“绘”聚其中。这些“鬼故事”或劝世或讽世，无一不反映人世间之悲欢离合，描述人情之喜怒嗔忌，体现着当时人们日常生活的方方面面。翻阅本书，你不但可以领略江户味极浓的日本风情，还可以欣赏日本第二代女性漫画大师浮世绘般的文艺画风。本书堪称取之不尽用之不竭的素材宝库，万千灵感的艺术源泉。无论是对日本怪谈感兴趣的人，还是漫画创作者、动漫爱好者、文学创作者都读有所得，得有所用。