這是他第一段人生的結束，也是「第二人生」的開始！
只有天使般的手腕加上魔鬼般的謀略，才能在這場爭鬥中勝出……
日本富士電視台50週年紀念大戲經典原著！
唐澤壽明、小雪、天海祐希、竹野內豐空前陣容主演！
全系列熱賣突破5,000,000冊！
比《白色巨塔》的人性描寫更複雜糾結！比《華麗一族》的政商攻防更波濤洶湧！比《不沉的太陽》的職場鬥爭更激烈震撼！
壹岐正作夢也想不到，有一天，自己會向全日本數一數二的大型貿易公司「近畿商事」送出這份履歷表。大半輩子都待在軍隊裡的他，工作經驗等於零；西伯利亞失去自由的十一年，更使他與這個世界徹底脫了節。他很懷疑只懂打仗的自己，在競爭激烈的商場上能做什麼？但是近畿商事董事長大門一三多次的盛情相邀，讓他決定把握這個「第二人生」，孤注一擲！
進入近畿商事沒多久，大門董事長便以見習為由，要壹岐隨行赴美視察。表面上，公司是前所未有地破例重用他這個毫無經驗的新人，不過，壹岐有種很奇怪的感覺，大門董事長似乎有什麼事情瞞著他。直到壹岐在美國的空軍基地，「巧遇」負責防衛廳二期戰鬥機採購案的老同學川又，他這才發現，自己脫離了槍林彈雨的戰場，卻又身不由己地投入了另一場財閥、商界、軍方與政界多方交纏，戰況更難以預料的權謀戰爭……
「日本的文學良心」山崎豐子繼《白色巨塔》、《華麗一族》與《不沉的太陽》後，再度投下一顆震撼彈！《不毛地帶》是所有為追求名利權勢而不擇手段的人性寫照，她以從軍人轉戰商場的壹岐正為主角，加上圍繞其四周的家人與愛人、亦敵亦友的上司和下屬、公司內外的對手及朋友，寫出了一部反映現實、撼動人心的精采巨作！
在這片人性的不毛之地上，有人劃地自限，有人拚命捍衛領土，有人始終堅持信念，也有人選擇隨波逐流。而在為書中千迴百轉的劇情發展嘆為觀止之餘，也讓我們不禁省思：名與利的意義何在？一心一意競逐更高的地位、更大的權力之後，帶來的又會是什麼？……

未来，太空。帝国的希望寄托于拥有三国时代名人基因复制人，虽然有着名将陆逊的基因，陆伯言仍然因偏科被赶出了军区大院。多年后的他重返军校，并因一首“来年若是凛风起”被派往超龄服役的“精卫号”。他改造了这艘老船和已经放弃希望的船员，但却扭转不了“精卫号”最终被击沉的命运。
帝国的这一丝颓势，宛如巨人老去的信号，让环伺帝国的列强终于找到了机会。张翼德战死埔原，周公瑾死守威海卫。帝国告急，长安告急！

Kurzbeschreibung
Allan Karlsson hat Geburtstag. Er wird 100 Jahre alt. Eigentlich ein Grund zu feiern. Doch während sich der Bürgermeister und die lokale Presse auf das große Spektakel vorbereiten, hat der Hundertjährige ganz andere Pläne: er verschwindet einfach – und schon bald steht ganz Schweden wegen seiner Flucht auf dem Kopf. Doch mit solchen Dingen hat Allan seine Erfahrung, er hat schließlich in jungen Jahren die ganze Welt durcheinander gebracht.
Jonas Jonasson erzählt in seinem Bestseller von einer urkomischen Flucht und zugleich die irrwitzige Lebensgeschichte eines eigensinnigen Mannes, der sich zwar nicht für Politik interessiert, aber trotzdem irgendwie immer in die großen historischen Ereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts verwickelt war.
Pressestimmen
"Ein Schelmenroman erster Güte!" (Der Spiegel )
"Ein amüsanter Crashkurs über Sinn und Irrsinn von Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ein Gute-Laune-Schmöker!" (Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch )
"Ganz große Unterhaltung und einfach ein Riesenspaß!“ (Hessischer Rundfunk, hr 1 )

这部小说虚构了一个速度的故事：3个因为某一种速度被抛在太阳系外的少年，凭借另一种速度在5年后回到了地球。5年的外太空流浪涉及悲伤、忠诚、坚定、涉及爱因斯坦和人类的成长，因为这也是一个有关人类广阔性的故事。

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
An American Library Association Notable Book
Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints.
Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.

It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.

艾萨克·阿西莫夫因为《神们自己》获得了1972年星云奖及1973年雨果奖。《神们自己（TheGodsThemselves）》，这个标题出自席勒描写圣女贞德的剧作中的一句话：面对愚昧，即使神们自己都束手无策
Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize
In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows
the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's
prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then
killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on
dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on
keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story--and those of the men and women caught up in his
procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a
restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. The
Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of
American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.

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Book Description
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead.
From Library Journal
Jude the Obscure created storms of scandal and protest for the author upon its publication. Hardy, disgusted and disappointed, devoted the remainder of his life to poetry and never wrote another novel. Today, the material is far less shocking. Jude Fawley, a poor stone carver with aspirations toward an academic career, is thwarted at every turn and is finally forced to give up his dreams of a university education. He is tricked into an unwise marriage, and when his wife deserts him, he begins a relationship with a free-spirited cousin. With this begins the descent into bleak tragedy as the couple alternately defy and succumb to the pressures of a deeply disapproving society. Hardy's characters have a fascinating ambiguity: they are victimized by a stern moral code, but they are also selfish and weak-willed creatures who bring on much of their own difficulties through their own vacillations and submissions to impulse. The abridgment speeds Jude's fall to considerable dramatic effect, but it also deletes the author's agonizing logic. Instead of the meticulous weaving of Jude's destiny, we get a somewhat incoherent summary that preserves the major plot points but fails to draw us into the tragedy. Michael Pennington reads resonantly and skillfully, his voice perfectly matching the grim music of Hardy's prose, but this recording can only be recommended for larger public libraries.
-John Owen, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA
From AudioFile
Author Thomas Hardy espoused Shakespeare's dictum (from King Lear): "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." He particularly exhibits this pessimism in Jude the Obscure, his tragedy about Jude Fawley, a stonemason torn by ambitions both intellectual and carnal, and Sue Whitehead, an early feminist whom Jude loves and who sometimes loves Jude. A compelling novel is made more so in this audio version by the outstanding work of Frederick Davidson. Always dependable, Davidson here excels in his use of measured dramatics; his consistent differentiation of a large cast of characters from varying social, educational and, therefore, dialectal groups; and his obvious personal involvement in the miseries of the two main characters. T.H.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1894-95 in Harper's New Monthly as Hearts Insurgent; published in book form in 1895. Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster (Oxford University). Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl who pretends to be pregnant by him, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He earns a living as a stonemason at Christminster; there he falls in love with his independent-minded cousin, Sue Bridehead. Out of a sense of obligation, Sue marries the schoolmaster Phillotson, who has helped her. Unable to bear living with Phillotson, she returns to live with Jude and eventually bears his children out of wedlock. Their poverty and the weight of society's disapproval begin to take a toll on Sue and Jude; the climax occurs when Jude's son by Arabella hangs Sue and Jude's children and himself. In penance, Sue returns to Phillotson and the church. Jude returns to Arabella and eventually dies miserably. The novel's sexual frankness shocked the public, as did Hardy's criticisms of marriage, the university system, and the church. Hardy was so distressed by its reception that he wrote no more fiction, concentrating solely on his poetry.
About Author
Rosellen Brown is the author of Half a Heart, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies and Before and After. She lives in Chicago.
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length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

故事從 1914 年揭開序幕，距離達爾文的小獵犬號遠航，轉眼已經八十年過去。然而在《利維坦》的世界裡，他不只是發表了《物種原始》、奠定現代生物學的基礎，更發現了「生命線」（life thread, 也就是 DNA），永遠改變了世界。如今英法兩國的自然學者已經完全掌握了「合成物種」的奧秘，開啟了一個輝煌的生物科技時代。工業革命的燃煤黑煙不再，取而代之的各式各樣的合成獸，或行走於倫敦街頭、或遨翔於首都上空。
在這個被稱為「達爾文主義者」（Darwinists）的世界裡，由猛馬象改造成的長途載具取代了火車，力大無窮的狼虎合成獸成了主要的拉車馱獸，巨型飛空艇乃是帶有鯨魚基因的完整的生態系，藉由棲息其間的蜜蜂和鳥類帶回的食物排放氫氣，因而能騰空飛行。為了防止巨鯨體內的氫氣外洩，引起爆炸，自然學者又造出六隻腳的嗅氫犬（hydrogen sniffer）。空戰的主力包括吞食鐵釘而後排泄射出的飛鏢蝙蝠，以及能灑下劇毒網的戰鷹。除此之外，還有能夠「錄製」人類聲音的傳話蜥蜴（message lizard）。
與英法敵對的勢力，則是由德意志帝國和奧匈帝國組成的「叮噹同盟」（Clankers），他們信仰天主教，把達爾文主義者的生物科技視為褻瀆上帝之舉。他們相信機械的力量，製造出陸行戰艦、高速機動偵察車、搭載重機槍和主砲的人形「暴風行者」（Stormwalker）戰具。Clank 原意為金屬碰撞的叮噹聲，後為達爾文主義者便稱他們為「叮噹人」（Clanckers）。《利維坦》的兩位主角恰好來自敵對陣營，被捲入一場即將延燒全球的超級大戰。
男主角亞歷山大（Aleksandar）是奧地利斐迪南大公的獨子，但因為母親沒有皇族血統，他不能繼承父親的爵位或領土。當被大公夫婦在塞拉耶佛遇刺身亡後，亞歷立刻被帶上一具「暴風行者」，連夜逃離奧地利。表面上這是一樁綁架行動，實際上卻是大公的先見之明，他知道自己的和平主張終將引來殺機，為了保護兒子免受政敵迫害，便託付摯友瓦格伯爵（Count Volger）帶亞歷逃走。
斐迪南夫婦的暗殺事件，使得原本便一觸即發的歐洲局勢，終於全面爆發衝突。奧匈帝國立刻向塞爾維亞宣戰，而俄國為了履行盟約，立即向奧地利宣戰，接著德國向俄國宣戰，法國向德國宣戰，戰爭有如骨牌效應，在全歐蔓延開來。亞歷在瓦格伯爵和機械長柯羅普（Klopp）的引導下，一邊學習駕駛機器人，一邊躲避來自德奧兩國的追兵，前往目的地：中立國瑞士。
在遙遠的英國，女主角戴琳‧夏普（Deryn Sharp）來到首都倫敦，準備女扮男裝用「戴倫」的身份加入皇家空軍，如此才能和已經入伍的哥哥在一起。她來自蘇格蘭，從小嚮往飛行，並從父親那邊學到駕馭合成獸升空的秘訣。誰知她才第一天參加新兵選拔，就因為自告奮勇乘「赫胥黎」（Huxley，一種水母改造的合成獸，能夠產生氫氣升空，類似熱氣球）升空試膽，被暴風吹離市區，一路飄流，最後被巨型飛空艇「利維坦號」搭救，成了船上一員。
眼看英國參戰在即，「利維坦號」奉命返回倫敦，搭載一位科學家和外交官，緊急前往君士坦丁堡，執行秘密外交任務。飛船在倫敦動物園降落，戴琳驚訝地發現科學家竟是個女博士，而且還是達爾文的孫女！這位諾拉博士莫測高深，隨身的「寵物」是一隻長得很奇怪的袋狼（thycaline, 又稱「塔斯馬尼亞虎」，現已絕種），除了大批行李，她還帶了一個超重的保溫箱！
朝土耳其飛去的途中，「利維坦號」遭到德國空軍襲擊，迫降阿爾卑斯山上。本來這個生態系只要有花草植物就能自給自足，修補損傷重新出發，偏偏他們落在海拔數千公尺、花草不生的雪地裡，孤立無援。誰知失事地點正好在亞歷的藏身處附近：斐迪南大公十五年前便相中這裡的一座荒廢城堡，將內部整修後準備了超過十年份的糧食物資，為的就是要讓兒子在此躲避戰亂。
亞歷不顧瓦格伯爵的勸阻，執意向「利維坦號」伸出援手，雙方歷經猜疑、誤解到抱持戒心的互助，這時德意志大軍開到，包括最新式的八足陸上戰艦，以及會發射燃燐照明彈，足以瞬間引爆氫氣的偵察車。「利維坦號」能否擊退敵人、逃出生天？亞歷的皇儲身份和戴琳的真實性別會不會被揭穿？諾拉博士的秘密任務究竟又是什麼？

這是對肉體的渴求，還是對精神的纏綿？文／達利 常買書／讀書的人，對於書大概有兩種看法：
一、書是文字的載具、而文字是內容的載具，所以在書上做記號寫眉批折頁角畫重點──只要書還可以被閱讀，這一切都是可以允許的，這類人要的不是本漂亮的書，而是本耐讀的書。

二、書的本身是種藝術品：不可被損毀、需要被呵護，要被排列整齊、要被分門別類；同一本書的不同版本不同裝幀，都有不同的收藏價值，至於閱讀，那得擺在其次。

對於前者，大約可以視為讀者與書產生了精神上的愛情，而對於後者，我們大約不得不承認：這種迷戀，實在非常地肉欲。

剛開始知道《紙房子裡的人》這本書時，直覺地認定：書中的瘋狂藏書家卡洛斯，必定屬於對書產生「肉體愛」的那種人；但這本小書讀起來輕快無比，直至閱畢，才會猛地發覺，卡洛斯不止是個對版本裝幀痴狂的傢伙，他還是個對作者生平、作品內容、創作背景、名作軼聞等等瞭若指掌的「精神愛」支持者。

不過，《紙房子裡的人》當中出現的愛書人，不止這個傳奇的狂人卡洛斯而已。這個故事從一位買了艾蜜麗．狄金生詩集、邊走邊讀時遭車撞個正著的女教授開始，談論書籍會用如何神奇的方式改變一個人的命運。過了幾日，接替她工作的教授收到一本邊緣黏著水泥碎屑的書，扉頁有女教授先前的題贈詞，寄件人則是他沒聽過的、遠在國外的卡洛斯。教授主角於是開始一路追尋女教授與卡洛斯的過往，也一路聽聞各式各樣關於讀書與藏書的傳聞故事。

現實裡摻著魔幻的因子，《紙房子裡的人》所追索的，不止是一段不為人知的過去、一個隱在傳說中的奇人，也是關於寫書、賣書、買書、讀書... 一直到藏書這整段同出版相關的鏈鎖上，每個環節的反省與思索。讀完《紙房子裡的人》，我們不難體會：書不但是一個佔據書架位置的實體，也是一縷佔據心靈空間的魂魄。

「許多時候，要從一本書中解脫，遠比獲得一本書還要難。人和書被一種需要和遺忘的協商相互依附，書好似我們生命中永不復的某一片刻見證人，一旦它一直保留在那兒，我們便有依序的感覺，認為它是我們的一部份。」

《紙房子裡的人》一書如是說。不只是對肉體的渴求，也是對精神的纏綿；當您決定拿起這本書，您就將與之緊密地相互依戀。

一場閱讀的奇幻之旅，從劍橋到銀河流域，追尋傳說中的紙屋魔戀……

劍橋學者布魯瑪．藍儂曾預言自己死的時候正在讀艾蜜麗．狄金生詩集，兩年後當她在蘇活區舊書店買到這本詩集的珍本時，果然被車撞死。布魯瑪死後不久，她的愛人收到一個神秘包裹，裡面是康拉德的小說《陰影線》，扉頁有謎樣題字，書緣則有水泥糊過的痕跡。滿心好奇的他，跨越大西洋來到南美的銀河流域，展開一趟尋找寄件人卡洛斯．布勞爾的奇幻之旅。

卡洛斯是一位瘋狂愛書人，他的屋裡滿滿全是書，從地板到天花板，甚至占據臥室和車庫；書籍的排列則有嚴密而不可違背的規則：例如莎士比亞不可與馬婁並列，因為兩人互控抄襲；馬奎斯和尤薩也必須分開，傳說兩人有瑜亮情節。他堅持以德布西音樂伴讀波特萊爾的詩、點著蠟燭讀十九世紀小說，和《吉訶德》舉杯對飲，甚至有人窺見他的床上以書擺成人形……

本書是拉美文學中生代最受注目的作家卡洛斯．多明格茲囊括多項大獎的傑作，雖是趣味小品，卻有豐富的意涵，兼具文學懸疑和形上思索成分，在向魔幻寫實前輩大師康拉德致敬的同時，也對世間所有愛書成癡的讀者露出會心一笑。

書中搭配有十二幅充滿想像的插圖，由名畫家彼德．席斯精心繪製。

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我本以為這是一本說書的故事。後來才發現，書在這個故事裡只是一種被物化了的道具。更明確一點說，那些書彷彿是在倫敦與拉丁美洲之間搭起的一座橋樑，多明格茲想告訴我們的，其實是懸在兩端的，一個悲慘的，詭異的，愛的故事。

多明格茲的文字簡潔流暢，敘述手法看似平淡，情節舖展卻步步為營，從一個劍橋大學女教授布魯瑪的車禍死亡開始，幾乎每個段落都藏著神秘玄機，有如一部驚悚的偵探小說。穿梭其間的經典書名，作家之名，鉅細靡遺的注解，以及各種特殊的閱讀儀式與偏執的藏書癖好，不但豐富了我們的視野，也給我們閱讀旅行的莫大樂趣。但多明格茲的終極企圖，是透過隱藏其間的人性追逐，結尾的愛情悲劇，嘲諷了學者的傲慢身段，藏書家的僵化思惟。讀破萬卷書，最難讀透的，豈不是人生這部大書！

──季季（作家∕印刻文學生活誌編輯總監）

一部關於「書與人」的曲奇懸疑小說，全篇充滿對書的熱愛與反思。從翻開首頁起，身為閱讀者的我們，即掉入作者所塑造「書能改變人的命運」主軸，並與之一起追尋一本書的出處：一如內文所敘「一個讀者，像一個旅行者在一個已然形成的景致中旅遊」。而我們也不由自主地與書中人物一樣反問：「『窮極一生都不可能跑完閱讀的旅程』，究竟意義為何？」

做為一個讀書人及愛書人，不容錯過如此一場與書息息相關的閱讀之旅。

──鄭栗兒（作家）

《紙房子裡的人》以水與火（紙張的宿命大敵）寫下了珍本的末日、愛書人的夢魘，而故事裡的藏書人布勞爾，則藉此代讀者先行了一段絕聖棄智、絕學無憂的旅程：他被藏書宰制；他企圖回頭駕馭不斷膨脹的書之宇宙；他的反撲行動失敗。

「要從一本書中解脫，遠比獲得一本書還要難。」在我們大處專注器利、小處專注肉體，唯用是務的時世裡，從器的耽溺中解脫，也遠比獲得它們更加不易。

搗毀紙房子，布勞爾即能從此抵達「道」嗎？如果抵達了，那將適合人們的期待嗎？我不知道答案，倘使知道，大約也不會在此時此地編派這些文字了。所以我要就地停止：詮釋是美妙的陷阱，而話語被使用太多，應該把你留給這本言辭安靜、情節微妙的無書之書。或許你看得見紙房子裡的人去到的神祕境地，能回頭告訴書中困惑的敘事者：越過了陰影線的布勞爾，究竟「是不是幸福快樂」？

──黃麗群（自由時報副刊編輯）

在書架上，我已經把《紙房子裡的人》放在卡爾維諾和迪諾．布扎第的作品之間。

──亞歷山大．梅可．史密斯（暢銷書《堅強淑女偵探社》作者）∕紐約時報書評

諷刺、趣味、雋永。《紙房子裡的人》開啟一趟神秘細膩的閱讀之旅。從閱讀與藏書探討語義學、哲學，以及個人心靈層次的問題。書是一個負擔？還是「時光之門」？

──《波士頓環球論壇報》

《紙房子裡的人》是「一間用智慧與魔力建造的房子」，搭配彼德．席斯的插畫，帶領讀者深思﹁書﹂的命運：讀過的書何時會再被讀第二次？第三次？長久以來不再閱讀的書為何仍然一直擺在書架上？書該被如何對待？

──《猶他州早報》

卡洛斯．M．多明格茲從一個類似偵探懸疑氛圍的筆觸出發，繼而導引出一個愛書人對書的激情與疾病，闡述書與讀者的命運交替影響的奧秘，引人入勝。

──馬德里《理性報》

阿根廷是一個孕育傑出小說家的搖籃，卡洛斯．M．多明格茲是波赫士、柯達薩、阿爾特、普易……等小說家之後，為阿根廷文學發聲的「新聲」。

──巴塞隆納《前鋒報》

Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed as a beggar, he takes whatever employment might be available to a poverty-stricken outcast of Europe. In Paris he lives in a slum and works as a dishwasher. The essay "How the Poor Die" describes conditions at a charity hospital there. In London's East End, he dresses and lives like his neighbors, who are paupers and the poorest of working-class laborers. Dressed as a tramp, he travels throughout England with hoboes and migrant laborers.

故事背景设定在未来，那时的人们被一个叫做“永恒”（Eternity）的组织所统治，“永恒”的成员可以操控时间，他们能通过时间旅行改变历史、阻止灾难的发生，抑或是抹去不想要的东西。其中有一个时间警察违反了“永恒”重要规定，爱上了来自另一个时间的女人，故事也就由此展开。

Book Description
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation. As Sulaco, site of an English/American controlled silver mine establishes its independence, its ideals are inevitably compromised.
From Library Journal
This involved, philosophical novel is not for the casual listener, especially one who is supposed to be concentrating on the road ahead. Writing in 1904, Conrad invented a complex South American country with a turbulent history and a potentially explosive population, ranging from the wealthy gringo running the Sulaco silver mine to the poorest worker loading cargo on the docks. Although the story teems with lively characters, the dazzling figure of Nostromo eclipses them all. A natural leader?brave, handsome, and incorruptible?he naturally becomes the epicenter of the revolution that soon devastates Sulaco. With characteristic eloquence, Conrad has focused on the dramatic action of the revolution to explore challenging themes: capitalism, imperialism, revolution, and social justice. Unfortunately, this audio program, read by Frederick Davidson, is disappointing. Despite fine dramatic characterizations, the narrator's posh British accent is so pronounced that it often detracts from the text. Since Nostromo has also been narrated by Frank Muller (Recorded Books) and Wolfram Kandinsky (Books on TapeR), perhaps this version may not be the best choice.
Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.
From AudioFile
This abridgment of Joseph Conrad's classic keeps in mind that the story is as much about the fictional province of Sulaco and the San Tome silver mine as it is about Nostromo, the "incorruptible" sailor who ends up concealing a fortune in silver. Although Nostromo is a presence throughout the novel, his tale actually begins on Side six. It preserves much of Conrad's fine detail, background history of Sulaco, and prose style, making the listener almost forget that this is an abridgment. Joss Ackland speaks Conrad's descriptive passages with a clear, refined voice that brings an authoritative air to this fictional history, while giving its main characters rougher voices. J.A.S.
About Author
Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Russian-occupied Poland on December 3, 1857. His parents were aristocrats and intensely nationalistic political activists who were exiled to Vologda, northeast of Moscow, for their opposition to tsarist rule. Józef's mother, Ewa, died in 1865 of tuberculosis, and his father, Apollo, succumbed to the same disease four years later. Józef was cared for by his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski until the young man acted on a long-expressed desire to go to sea. In 1874 he left for Marseilles, where he began sailing for the French merchant service.
In 1878, in money difficulties and no longer able to sail on French vessels because he had not secured an exemption from military service in Russia, Conrad attempted suicide. After his recovery, he left Marseilles on a British ship and went to England, where he worked the route between Lowestoft and Newcastle. He arrived in England virtually without qualifications and with very little English, but he was able in a few years to earn his master's certificate in the British merchant marine and became a British national. Conrad traveled to Mauritius and Constantinople, worked on wool clippers from London to Australia, and sailed the waters of the Far East. These voyages were punctuated by long periods when he could not find suitable positions because of the decline in sail-powered transport in the age of the steamship.
Conrad began writing in English, which became his language of choice after his native Polish and French, although he complained of difficulties with English grammar and syntax. His voyages provided the background for much of his fiction. 'Youth' and 'Typhoon' draw on Conrad's personal experience with disasters at sea. In 1881, he became second mate on the Palestine, a ship that was rammed, caught in tempestuous gales in the English Channel, had its cargo of coal catch fire, and sank off Sumatra. His captaincy of the Otago from Bangkok in 1888 informs The Shadow-Line (1917) and the stories 'Falk' and 'The Secret Sharer.' Heart of Darkness (1899) is drawn from an expedition to the Belgian Congo in 1890. He was already working on a novel when he traveled to the Congo, where he expected to take command of a river steamer. The assignment failed to materialize, and Conrad fell dangerously ill. On his return to England, he was forced to find work as a ship's mate. He was able during this period of intermittent employment to devote more time to his writing, and in 1894 he submitted the novel Almayer's Folly to the publisher Fisher Unwin. Unwin published it in 1895 under the anglicized version of Conrad's Polish name.
Conrad was encouraged to continue to write by Unwin's reader Edward Garnett, although he went on applying for posts as a ship's captain. He finished The Outcast of the Islands in 1895 and in 1896 married Jessie George. They had two sons, Borys and John, born in 1898 and 1906. Constantly in need of more money, Conrad produced short stories and serialized his novels. Although plagued by physical illness and psychological problems, he established one of the most formidable bodies of work in the English language. His longer works include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), and Victory (1915). Nostromo, set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, is considered by many critics to be Conrad's best work and by some to be the finest novel of the twentieth century.
From early in his career Conrad had the admiration of fellow writers--Stephen Crane, John Galsworthy, Henry James, and Ford Madox Ford, with whom Conrad collaborated on The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). It was only after the success of Chance (1913), however, that his writing afforded him widespread recognition and relative financial security. He spent his declining years in Kent, often in ill health, and died on August 3, 1924, at his home near Canterbury.
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length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

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