The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire? a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.

《慢》内容简介：速度是出神的形式，这是技术革命送给人的礼物。跑步的人跟摩托车手相反，身上总有自己存在，总是不得不想到脚上水泡和喘气；当他跑步时，他感到自己的体重、年纪，就比任何时候都意识到自身与岁月。当人把速度性能托付给一台机器时，一切都变了：从这时候起，身体已置之度外.交给了一种无形的、非物质化的速度，纯粹的速度，实实在在的速度，令人出神的速度。
慢的乐趣怎么失传了呢？啊，古时候闲荡的人到哪儿去啦？民歌小调中的游手好闲的英雄，这些漫游各地磨坊、在露天过夜的流浪汉，都到哪几去啦？他们随着乡间小道、草原、林间空地和大自然一起消失了吗？捷克有一句谚语用来比喻他们甜蜜的悠闲生活：他们凝望仁慈上帝的窗户。凝望仁慈上帝窗户的人是不会厌倦的；他幸福。在我们的世界里，悠闲蜕化成无所事事，这则是另一码事了。无所事事的人是失落的人，他厌倦，永远在寻找他所缺少的行动。

Those master brains had perished. They had left full directions, it is true, and their successors had each of them mastered a portion of those directions. But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

伍尔摩是一位旅居古巴哈瓦那的英国商人，经营一家吸尘器代理店，并独力扶着十七岁的女儿梅莉。女儿日渐成熟美丽，伍尔摩开始担心她的教育问题，却苦于力不足，无法替她安排好的出路。就在此时，一位神秘的英国情报人员出现了，他选中伍尔摩做为他的下线情报员，以搜集当地的情报。伍尔摩在金钱的诱惑下，开始用身边的事物“制造”情报。英国情报本部深信不疑：将吸尘器草图视为核子武器，衣舞娘当做卧底间谍；敌方的情报部门也跳进来反制，虚构的人物竟一一浮现，而伍摩也陷入危机……令人啼笑皆非的情节，衬托出情报世界的荒谬。

A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greenea featuring a new introductionathe author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. In "The Human Factor" A high- level operative of the British Secret Service acts as a double agent to benefit his family.

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Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.

The best prose writer in English’ Gore Vidal
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and weaknesses. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself?

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires--this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

小说说美国一位富翁追求长生不老的灵丹，出钱支助科学界研究长寿秘诀，结果竟在英国发现十八世纪一位贵族的日记，说是生吃鲤鱼（carp）的内脏可以长寿，这位贵族从十八世纪活到二十世纪的三十年代还不死。可是，想活几百年的人必须付出代价：变成人猿。富翁觉得人猿性生活非常愉快，变成人猿也不错："They seem to be having a pretty good time"。小说的书名於是套了田尼森的诗句「夏去夏来天鹅死」（"after many a summer dies the swan"）。

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's "Howards End" explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge. 'Only connect...' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony. David Lodge's introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster's reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as 'my best novel'. This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, "Where Angels Fear To Tread" appeared in 1905. "The Longest Journey" appeared in 1907, followed by "A Room With A View" (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. "Howards End" (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. "Maurice" was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed "Howard's End", you might like Forster's "A Room with a View", also available in "Penguin Classics".

毕希纳的文学作品虽然不多，但却以极高的质量在德国文学史上赢得了一个不可动摇的地位。他的文学作品总共只有四部：一部历史剧《丹东之死》，一部讽刺喜剧《雷昂采与蕾娜》，一部命运悲剧《沃伊采克》和一部中篇小说《棱茨》。 除了上述四部作品外，革命传单《黒森快报》（把和平给茅屋！把战争给宫殿！）也可以称之为浸透政治色彩的第一个文学作品。它不但是一份重要的历史文献，也是他准备从事政治活动的政治纲领，对后来的德国传单文学产生了巨大的影响。