Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

艺术高于生活、艺术反映现实的唯美主义思想，在这部小说中得到了充分的体现。主人公道连一步步走向堕落，并沦为杀人犯，在他自身的容貌上并没有得到反映，他依然像以往那么年轻英雄。但作为艺术作品的画像，却记录他的种种劣迹，画像中的他变得难看和衰老了，说明只有艺术才能反映人的个性和思想的变化，而现实现实是做不到的。
道连·格雷本是个单纯的少年，在他的生活中，对他影响最大的是两个人：画家霍尔华德和朋友亨利勋爵。霍尔华德为艺术而生活，他在道连身上所投注的感情，转化为了他艺术的灵感，尤其表现在创作道连·格雷的画像上，使这幅画作成了他绘画生涯中难得的精品。画像是他艺术和情感的结晶，给他带来欢乐的同时，也给他造成了不少痛苦。所以他时刻关心道连，生怕他过多地受到亨利勋爵的不良影响。也正是他所作的这幅画像，引出了一连串问题，推动着小说情节的发展。而玩世不恭的亨利勋爵，是道连的“精神导师”，一个享乐主义者，有着一整套似是而非的个人主义理论，用雄辩的口才和充满智慧的警语包装起来，轻而易举地使人接受。他谆谆教导道连要充分享受生活，趁年轻的时候及时行乐，不要抵制诱惑，相反要随心所欲，去实现自已的每个幻想。道连是他的个人主义理论的试验品，所以他要时刻跟踪他，观察这种试验的效果。他之所以接近道连，还有一个深层的原因，那就是道连身上有着他所珍视而又缺乏的东西：青春。道连在亨利的“教导”下，个性由单纯变为世故，灵魂由纯洁转为污秽，最后走向自身的毁灭。道连、霍尔华德和亨利三个人物，通过性格上的互补和依赖，紧密地联系在一起，成了小说结构内在的黏合剂。 本书是一部内涵非常丰富的小说，要充分地挖掘综，对读者来说是一个挑战，正是因为如此，它也就更富有吸引力。

《母与子》是托宾第一部短篇小说集。所收九个短篇小说均围绕母亲与儿子的关系，捕捉一个转折性时刻，在那一刻，母与之间微妙的平衡被打破，或者他们对彼此的认识发生改变。托宾细致、优雅、流畅地刻画了各色男女，他们受制于习俗，受制于难以言说的情感，走不出过去的阴影。许多人无可奈何地陷入了生活的泥淖，别无选择。
一个男子埋葬了母亲，用一夜放纵冲刷内心的悲伤；一位著名歌手征服了满场观众，但无法取悦在场那个多年未见的儿子。而在本书最后可能也是最出色的短篇小说《长冬》中，一个年轻人在大雪覆盖的群山中，搜寻离家出走的母亲。
托宾透过这些故事，准确展现了人的脆弱和渴望，震撼人心，令人难忘。

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel dea ls with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. "Ulysses" has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book - although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States - and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, "Ulysses" is also a compulsively readable book.

「在別的國家一切可能嚴重，但不絕望；在愛爾蘭一切都絕望，但不嚴重。」
「愛爾蘭人的心一無所有，除了想像。」
是什麼樣複雜的背景因素，讓長期飽受政治和宗教衝突的愛爾蘭人產生如此特殊的嘲諷風格？於二十世紀末十年力爭上游、目前已成為歐盟中第二富有的愛爾蘭，將會帶給台灣何種的想像、啟示與驚歎？
旅行者吳祥輝腳踏別人的土地，眼睛看著世界，探索著自己的國家心靈。他以視野寬廣、觀察細微的作家之眼，從文學、歷史、地理等多視角出發，配合所拍攝精美圖片，深入探訪愛爾蘭的悲情命運及民族心靈，嘗試從另一面向為台灣「定性」。他自認寫作本書時看到的是一頁頁悲痛，充滿著警惕－－也認為對台灣人而言，「警惕」也許更具意義。

本书包括正式结集的全部标准版本的叶芝抒情诗的中译文，共计３７４首；并附有详尽注释，以及一些相关的背景材料。译者对自己早先的译文和注释做了全面修订。“他在对叶芝进行研究的基础上翻译了这本诗集。他的译作忠实于原著的艺术风格，语言流畅，文字凝炼”（屠岸评语）。“……是现有叶芝诗歌翻译得最完整，在我看来也是译得最好的一种。……这部书对中国诗歌产生的积极影响在以后的时间里会逐渐显现出来”（张曙光评语）。

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. "The History of Britain & Ireland" traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history. Packed with visually arresting illustrations and clear, concise text, you can now explore the long and fascinating story of the British Isles. It includes profiles of key people in history such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred the Great, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth I and Winston Churchill. "The History of Britain & Ireland" is ideal as a family reference for the home as well as a key history companion for schools.

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium. Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke examine the successive waves of globalization and "deglobalization" that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking closely at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends. They show how the expansion and contraction of the world economy has been directly tied to the two-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very long run.The story they tell is sweeping in scope, one that links the emergence of the Western economies with economic and political developments throughout Eurasia centuries ago. Drawing extensively upon empirical evidence and informing their systematic analysis with insights from contemporary economic theory, Findlay and O'Rourke demonstrate the close interrelationships of trade and warfare, the mutual interdependence of the world's different regions, and the crucial role these factors have played in explaining modern economic growth. "Power and Plenty" is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the origins of today's international economy, the forces that continue to shape it, and the economic and political challenges confronting policymakers in the twenty-first century.

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go.
As urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion.