Hotshot spies never die. They just slip undercover. Julia Torrison-codename Sheba-is keeping secrets. Seventeen months ago she was a CIA superagent, tracking down dangerous terrorists with her partner and lover, Conrad Flynn. A mission was blown, literally, when a bomb Julia built exploded early and Conrad died. Yanked back to Langley and given a new identity, she is now the Counterterrorism Center's top analyst, spending her days at CIA headquarters and her nights in the bed of her boss. Her former life as a secret agent has been sealed off. Like her heart. Conrad Flynn-codename Solomon-has his own secrets. For starters, he's not dead. Going under the deepest cover possible, he faked his death to save Julia's life. Now he must tear her life apart and ask her to help him hunt down a traitor: her new love. Is Con a rogue agent or just a jealous ex-lover? To find out, Julia will have to enter a web of seduction and betrayal to play the spy game of her life using nothing more than her iPod-and her intuition. Julia warns: "Beware of sexy spies bearing gifts. Trust no one and sleep with a gun under your pillow." Conrad warns: "Sex, lies and tantalizing suspense.don't worry, I'll protect you."--Amazon

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries,
breaks the rules of traditional mystery.
The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death, that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

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，都到哪儿去啦？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。
这是米兰·昆德拉移民法国后，用法文所写的第一部小说。相较于《生命之中不能承受之轻》和《不朽》所探讨的沉重话题，《慢》的主题看上去令人惊奇：显然是昆德拉所有作品当中，主题最为轻松的小说。作者自己曾说：“作品没有任何一个严肃的词。”作者通过旅途中的驾驶事件，论及了速度、时间以及记忆、历史、遗忘等主題；以城堡为场景，穿插了美丽的爱情故事，并交织着当代与18世纪两个时空……

小王子是一个超凡脱俗的仙童，他住在一颗只比他大一丁点儿的小行星上。陪伴他的是一朵他非常喜爱的小玫瑰花。但玫瑰花的虚荣心伤害了小王子对她的感情。小王子告别小行星，开始了遨游太空的旅行。他先后访问了六个行星，各种见闻使他陷入忧伤，他感到大人们荒唐可笑、太不正常。只有在其中一个点灯人的星球上，小王子才找到一个可以作为朋友的人。但点灯人的天地又十分狭小，除了点灯人他自己，不能容下第二个人。在地理学家的指点下，孤单的小王子来到人类居住的地球。
小王子发现人类缺乏想象力，只知像鹦鹉那样重复别人讲过的话。小王子这时越来越思念自己星球上的那枝小玫瑰。后来，小王子遇到一只小狐狸，小王子用耐心征服了小狐狸，与它结成了亲密的朋友。小狐狸把自己心中的秘密——肉眼看不见事务的本质，只有用心灵才能洞察一切——作为礼物，送给小王子。用这个秘密，小王子在撒哈拉大沙漠与遇险的飞行员一起找到了生命的泉水。最后，小王子在蛇的帮助下离开地球，重新回到他的B612号小行星上。
童话描写小王子没有被成人那骗人的世界所征服，而最终找到自己的理想。这理想就是连结宇宙万物的爱，而这种爱又是世间所缺少的。因此，小王子常常流露出一种伤感的情绪。作者圣埃克絮佩里在献辞中说：这本书是献给长成了大人的从前那个孩子。
《小王子》不仅赢得了儿童读者，也为成年人所喜爱，作品凝练的语言渗透了作者对人类及人类文明深邃的思索。它所表现出的讽刺与幻想，真情与哲理，使之成为法国乃至世界上最为著名的一部童话小说。

爲“世界文学丛刊第三辑”

十六七岁的时候，她特别喜欢一个隐喻；是她自己想出来的、听来的，还是从哪里读到的？没有关系。她想成为一种玫瑰香，一种四处扩散的香味，四处去征服。她希望就这样穿透所有男人，并通过男人，去拥抱整个世界。玫瑰四处扩散的香味：那是对艳遇的隐喻。这个隐喻在她即将成人之际开放，就像是对温柔地与男人混杂相处的浪漫许诺，对穿越所有男人之旅的邀请。可是，她天生又并非是一个常换情人的女人，这个朦胧的、抒情的梦，很快就在她宁静而幸福的婚姻中沉睡过去。

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling's celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man. Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students' understanding of middle-class life in nineteenth-century provincial France. In Madame Bovary , Flaubert created a cogent counterdiscourse that exposed and resisted the dominant intellectual and social ideologies of his age. The novel's subversion of conventional moral norms inevitably created controversy and eventually led to Flaubert's prosecution by the French government on charges of offending "public and religious morality." This Norton edition is the only one available that includes the complete manuscript from Flaubert's 1857 trial. "Criticism" includes sixteen studies regarding the novel's central themes, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, including essays by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, and Naomi Schor. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

《不能承受的生命之轻》是米兰·昆德拉最负盛名的作品。小说描写了托马斯与特丽莎、萨丽娜之间的感情生活。但它不是一个男人和两个女人的三角性爱故事，它是一部哲理小说，小说从“永恒轮回”的讨论开始，把读者带入了对一系列问题的思考中，比如轻与重、灵与肉。
《不能承受的生命之轻》是一部意象繁复的书，其中装载了多种涵义：被政治化了的社会内涵的揭示、人性考察、个人命运在特定历史与政治语境下的呈现，以及对两性关系本质上的探索等。昆德拉将这些元素糅合在一起，写成一部非同凡响的小说——其中既有隐喻式的哲学思考，也有人的悲欢离合的生命历程的展现。

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed."

上个世纪七十年代，我和阿罗被下放到偏远闭塞的天凤山接受再教育。在那儿，我们遭遇到一只神秘的皮箱和一位美丽的乡村裁缝女，一出由知识与美、青春与激情导演的情节剧由此上演，中间穿插着那个文化缺席而人性未泯的时代特有的滑稽与黑色幽默……
小说由法国最负盛名的文学图书出版社伽利出版社（Gallimard）于2000年出版，一夜成名，畅销一时，并先后5次获奖。它的外文版权已售到二十多个国家，其中英文版现已销售30万册。同名电影由作者自编自导，由周迅、刘烨、陈坤饰演三位主角，已经拍摄完成并在世界各地陆续上演。电影代表法国获得了2003年"金球奖"最佳外语片提名。