A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family’s encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition to face the uncouth foreigner takes an unexpected turn when they return to Italy under tragic circumstances intending to rescue Lilia and Gino’s baby.

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.

Diese Ausgabe der Reihe »Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek - Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium« bietet Max Frischs Homo faber zusammen mit einem Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis des Werks erforderlichen Informationen enthält: einen Überblick über die literarhistorischen Voraussetzungen, eine Einführung in das Erzählverfahren und die Komponenten des Inhalts, die Entstehungs- und Textgeschichte, Selbstaussagen des Autors zu seinem Werk, eine Dokumentation der Rezeptionsgeschichte, Wort- und Sacherläuterungen, eine Analyse der unterschiedlichen Deutungsansätze sowie Literaturhinweise. Der Kommentar ist den neuen Rechtschreibregeln entsprechend verfasst. Walter Schmitz, geb. 1953, Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Technischen Universität Dresden, ist Mitherausgeber der Gesammelten Werke von Max Frisch und hat u.a. zahlreiche maßgebliche Monographien, Aufsätze und Materialienbände über Max Frisch publiziert.

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.
Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillar remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men.

他不是魔鬼的代言人，但魔鬼也攔不住他；他不過是個無名小卒，但他卻是天生贏家。
宮廷就是他的競技場，罪惡是力量的來源；然而只要走錯一小步，就有可能萬劫不復…
亨利八世的宮廷猶如一個殘忍無情的競技場，只有一個人敢以自己的生命為賭注，以博取國王的寵愛，進而步步高升，登上權力的顛峰。
一五二○年代的英格蘭，災禍一觸即發。英王亨利八世與凱瑟琳王后結褵已十數年，但膝下始終沒有男性繼承人。亨利八世開始擔心，英格蘭在未來會為了繼承權問題而引發內戰。此時，宮廷內出現一位年輕女子，工於心計的她，把亨利八世迷得神魂顛倒。樞機主教沃爾西為了國王的離婚案費盡心思，百般週旋，卻始終無法突破僵局，最後遭到罷黜、含恨而終。出身寒微的克倫威爾趁勢而起，他足智多謀、鐵石心腸、不擇手段，精力旺盛得像魔鬼。
然而，亨利八世卻是個生性反覆無常的君王。在那差之毫釐，失之千里，一小步錯就可能人頭落地的時代，克倫威爾該如何在腥風血雨的宮廷中求生？

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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

阎连科最新长篇小说
一部“神实主义”力作
对“内真实”的一次尽情书写
一部独自行走的求索自问和冥思
沧海桑田，繁花似锦，却是以鲜血与良心为代价
一部炸裂志，就是一部灵魂出窍、脓血交融的当代世道人心史
一个村庄如何在眨眼间成为超级大都市？
人的精神有何样“核裂变”的极能？
爱到何处才为撕心、裂肺和崩溃？
美望、欲望、恶望的极度在哪里？
“最现实”的“最寓言”
揭开“不存在”的真实
展示看不见的真实
凸显被真实掩盖的真实
阎连科以神实主义的写作手法，荒诞、夸张、魔幻地呈现了“炸裂”由百人之村巨变为超级大都市的故事，透视出时代变迁中的狂野欲望，撕心裂肺的人性之痛，家族间的恩怨情仇，历经沧桑暖意未散的世道人心……
社会评论：
阎连科天生具有奇幻的想象力，又是当代中国最具探索勇气的小说家，他的小说从不重复自己的写作经验，每一部都具有小说形式的探索性，开掘着新的令人喜悦的思想深度。他是备受关注而被争议，不是因为备受争议才被关注。
——复旦大学教授，文学评论家 陈思和
《炸裂志》的叙事从“震惊”出发，如受惊的野马，脱缰而去。也可以说阎连科在叙述中更为自由，无拘无束，无法无天；或许也可以说，他的叙事要用更加狂怪、荒诞的展开，要用“震惊”的连环套，让小说人物有共工的模样。或许阎连科本来就是中国当代小说家中的共工，他为什么就不能头触不周山呢？
——北京大学教授，文学评论家 陈晓明
《炸裂志》以一种浓缩了的点试图揭示“高速发展”的悖谬和荒唐。拥抱苦难不是一个轻松的姿态，它既是阎连科的方法论又是其世界观。阎连科的美学是一种偏执而又激进的美学，它以一种令人迷恋的崇高挑战叙事的极限。他几乎所有的作品都提醒我们应当直面我们不敢直面的现实，记住我们可能已经忘却的记忆。
——文学评论家 程德培
阎连科以他的“神实主义”打破了既有理论的分类和垄断，重新发现小说，于是有了《炸裂志》。这是“当代中国”的又一个隐喻，是阎连科的世界观和小说方法论。读懂《炸裂志》，便读懂阎连科，或许也读懂了当代中国……
——苏州大学教授 著名批评家 王尧
这是一部极其关注中国“大现实”的长篇。从《炸裂志》中，我们深深地读到了作家阎连科对我们民族和土地的理解和大爱，读到了作家面对现实的那种关切的思考和对未来的忧虑与信心。
——当代作家评论主编 林建法

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.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day .

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知青一代的精神史。
以大眼界诊断时代，以大悲悯直指人心，具有社会广角与人性深度的心灵书写。
灵动的言表与深刻的思辨自然融合，当代文学的独步标高之作。
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这是一部不可多得的文学精品。作品通过几位五○后从知青年代到转型时期的人生轨迹和恩怨纠葛，折射出人性的光辉和时代的变迁。作品的聚焦点是性格、情感及价值观的冲突，栩栩如生地刻画了“后知青”官员、工人、民营企业家、艺术家、流亡者等各种不同的人物形象，用他们各自的一生回答了时代的精神之问。
这是知青一代的精神史。以大眼界诊断时代，以大悲悯直指人心，具有社会广角与人性深度的心灵书写。灵动的言表与深刻的思辨自然融合，当代文学的独步标高之作。
媒体评论
陈思和：中国当代文学的世界性因素之一例。
格非：像是畸人录，又像是英雄传，对历史和现实具有很强的概括力。
欧阳江河：整整一代人的安魂曲。

为了保持遗照的“新鲜”，祖父年年都要拍遗照。某天，少年保润替祖父取遗照，从相馆拿错了照片，他看到了一张愤怒的少女的脸。他不知道是谁，却记住了这样一张脸。
有个年年拍遗照、活腻透了的老头儿，是谁家有个嫌贫贱的儿媳都不愿意看到的。祖父的魂丢了，据说是最后一次拍照时化作青烟飞走了。丢魂而疯癫的祖父没事儿就去挖别家的树根，要找藏有祖先遗骨的手电筒。
儿媳嫌弃，儿子不争，祖父只好交给医院关照。祖父不屈不挠，开始“破坏”医院的树木。周围的人都被祖父气疯了，照看祖父这件事自然落在了保润身上。为了驯服不安分的祖父，保润发明出了自己独特的绝招——娴熟的“捆人”技术以及五花八门的绳结。祖父变得服服帖帖，保润也成了医院里的大名人，不断地被请去驯服那些不安分不听话的病人。
终于有一天，他在医院里，撞见了照片上那个不知名的少女。
少女无名，是从小被医院老花匠收养的弃婴，人称仙女。仙女年少傲气，唯独听命于柳生。与仙女约会，让保润动了心，他与柳生做一个交易。事后发觉被柳生欺骗的仙女看不上保润，两人在溜冰场上不欢而散。
保润心有不甘，柳生遂撺掇两人的舞会，跳小拉，地点在医院的水塔。仙女不从，保润便使出自己的捆人绝技，把仙女捆在了水塔里，扬长而去。然而，等待他的，却是警车。柳生出来了，保润却被留在了监狱里，蒙受十年冤屈，徒耗十年光阴。
这十年里，仙女被视为“扫帚星”远走故里，保润一家则早已家破人亡。柳生深藏罪疚，洗心革面，代替保润照顾祖父，做起了本分的生意。万料不到，仙女回来了，回到了这间医院和香椿街，改名“白蓁”。柳生迷上了更漂亮的白蓁。但曾经的罪恶是抹不掉的，白蓁再次离开了。
保润出狱，柳生迎接。两人成了至交，仿佛彼此不曾相欠。可是，白蓁带着肚里的孩子回来了，致使三人无法不去面对过往的巨大创痛。在水塔里跳一场小拉，对于保润来说，就与白蓁（仙女）“清账”了。他曾经以为，自己与柳生之间，过去的就过去了，但是，命运迫使他发现，该还的终是要还的。于是，在柳生的新婚之夜，他终于跟柳生“清帐”了……
白蓁走了，留下了一个红脸婴儿，红脸是羞耻，是愤怒。他躺在保润祖父的怀里，那个比任何人都活得长久、活得不朽的祖父。

本書為短篇小說集，收錄包括〈Brokeback Mountain斷背山〉等多篇作品。

《紐約時報》書評：「對《Close Range》書中角色而言，壯觀富麗又震懾人心的地理是他們的守護神。書中人物的生活是奮力向前卻徒勞無功的上坡路，下坡路卻是狂亂失控的旅程。普露以散文體書寫人物，筆法狂暴﹑震撼﹑嫻熟，一筆將人物帶至邊緣，再作勢讓人物超越極限。」

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本書收錄以懷俄明州為背景的11則短篇，有多篇單篇獲獎，其中〈斷背山〉榮獲1998年歐‧亨利短篇小說獎和全美雜誌獎。
作者Annie Proulx描繪出在殘酷艱難的自然環境下，命運多舛的角色，顯現熟練出色的文字和對懷俄明狂烈的摯愛。奇異、非現實的元素，為故事添上許多色彩，更淬瀝出令人不寒而慄、倍感神聖莊嚴之美。