Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.

From #1 New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series that follows High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood as they tour the world after the Mortal War. The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel.
All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation-a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke.
Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand and its elusive new leader before the cult can cause any more damage. As if it wasn't bad enough that their romantic getaway has been sidetracked, demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. As their quest for answers becomes increasingly dire, Magnus and Alec will have to trust each other more than ever-even if it means revealing the secrets they've both been keeping.

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'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,' Trollope said.
His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.
His picture of late-nineteenth-century England is a portrait of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. In The Way We Live Now Trollope combines his talents as a portraitist and his skills as a storyteller to give us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago.
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生活中我们有着那么多真挚的情感，都在岁月的磨砺中淡化为一种木然，人性的丑陋和竞争的残酷有时竟是那么地不择手段，不寒而栗是那良知的泯灭却无从发现，社会这个凶猛的野兽，张开血盆的大口，仿佛随时要把我们吞噬在那无稽的深渊……而我们却在那里讨论着哲学，道貌岸然地不屑一顾那些真实的所遇所得，因为我们都愿意浮在水面上生活，无法也很少愿意去理解那更深层的感觉。
《成都，今夜请将我遗忘》以成都为舞台，以几个大学生毕业后奋斗的心理历程和他们对待生活和爱情的态度，昭示了人性在当今社会的堕落，和我们整个社会的的沉沦走向，陈重（沉重）的报应，赵悦（造孽）的虚伪，李良（你娘）的无可奈何以及王大头（王八蛋）的腐败堕落……成都，真会变成让人窒息的都市吗？这一切的一切，又都是谁的罪过？你？我？他？还有我们的父辈？我们的教育？……
小说里的这些字句在向我们诉说什么？
生命不过是一场坟地里的盛宴，饮罢唱罢，死亡就微笑着翩翩飞临。当青春的容颜在镜中老去，还有谁会想起那些最初的温柔和疼痛？
那是1995年的春天，樱花烂漫，柳丝飘扬，我和女生赵悦在礼堂后的小树林里紧紧拥抱，对生活充满信心。而七年之后，那套职业装早成了抹布，就象我们曾经热烈过的情感。
八年之后，我看着这张照片有些敬畏，我从来不信命运不拜神，但在那一刻我想，是谁改变了照片少年们的生活？是谁把他们分配在生死两岸？或者，我的裤裆里又在隐隐作痛，是谁让李良踢向我们的友情？
那夜的乐声震耳欲聋，灯光明灭不定，在零点酒吧的二楼，一个人在哭泣，那是陈重，另外一个人哈哈大笑，那是他的情敌和朋友。从更远的角度看去，渐渐沉睡的成都象一座巨大的坟墓，偶尔有几星灯光，那是残存的生命的磷火，而那些哭着笑着的人，正慢慢走向死亡的穹顶，就象墓道里的蚂蚁。
1991年9月15日，那天没有战争，没有名人死去，那天有一些孩子钻出子宫，面向世界大声啼哭，没有人知道他们的一生将会怎样，但传说中，他们都是天上的精灵。
2001年成都的秋天跟往常没有任何分别，黄叶满地，风沙迷眼，每个夜晚都会有人死去，守灵的人围着尸体打麻将，脸上嬉笑颜开；婴儿在产房里出生，脐带剪断，从此注定了他们的一生。李良说你信吗，其实生命只不过是上帝跟我们开的一个玩笑。

The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a boy is born who will become immortalized as Ming dynasty loyalist Koxinga. Lord of Formosa tells the intertwined stories of Koxinga and the Dutch colony from their beginnings to their fateful climax in 1662. The year before, as Ming China collapsed in the face of the Manchu conquest, Koxinga retreated across the Taiwan Strait intent on expelling the Dutch. Thus began a nine-month battle for Fort Zeelandia, the single most compelling episode in the history of Taiwan. The first major military clash between China and Europe, it is a tale of determination, courage, and betrayal – a battle of wills between the stubborn Governor Coyett and the brilliant but volatile Koxinga. Although the story has been told in non-fiction works, these have suffered from a lack of sources on Koxinga as the little we know of him comes chiefly from his enemies.
While adhering to the historical facts, author Joyce Bergvelt sympathetically and intelligently fleshes out Koxinga. From his loving relationship with his Japanese mother, estrangement from his father (a Chinese merchant pirate), to his struggle with madness, we have the first rounded, intimate portrait of the man.
Dutch-born Bergvelt draws on her journalism background, Chinese language and history studies, and time in Taiwan, to create an irresistible panorama of memorable characters caught up in one of the seventeenth century’s most fascinating dramas.

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In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.

展览可以成为小说，在现实空间创设虚构的情境；小说亦可以成为纸上的展览，将虚构成分织入真实的生活。
如同为一个浩瀚繁杂的博物馆收集物品，btr在他的小说中观看，想象，游荡，又总在那些顿悟的时刻，轻盈狡黠地滑向另一个空间。艺术介入人与世界之间，19篇故事犹如19个虚实映照的镜厅，19段虚实互涉的旅行，为我们时代的都市生活保存下充满迷思的奇妙胶囊。
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来自2060年的历史学家穿越回2021年的上海，看到头顶几片云正默默变幻成单词，单词聚集成一个句子：“你不会害怕黑夜的惊骇。”那些云很快变成一场小阵雨，降落在安福路寂静的弄堂里。
“转眼成空，我们便如飞而去。”
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btr是一个亚洲城市观察者。街道上的一切，从乱七八糟的电线到脏兮兮的垃圾箱，从楼宇间的一道天光到墙角的一张废纸，都被他的沉思所涉及，从而显得诗意盎然而又歧义丛生；他在所有的地方都发现了亚洲，或者他在所有的地方都揭示了一种亚洲式的知觉。一种广大的地方性，一种自我超越的日常性。
——孙甘露（著名作家、华东师大中国创意写作研究院院长，《思南文学选刊》社长）
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他的角度在所有的角度之间，他的世界在整个世界的外面。他是btr，他看到的，他要是不说，你总是看不见。
——黎紫书（著名小说家）

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.
Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching – is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality.
It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the centre of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.