Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and deft with a blade, Alwyn is content with the freedom of the woods and the comradeship of his fellow thieves. But an act of betrayal sets him on a new path - one of blood and vengeance, which eventually leads him to a soldier's life in the king's army.
Fighting under the command of Lady Evadine Courlain, a noblewoman beset by visions of a demonic apocalypse, Alwyn must survive war and the deadly intrigues of the nobility if he hopes to claim his vengeance. But as dark forces, both human and arcane, gather to oppose Evadine's rise, Alwyn faces a choice: can he be a warrior, or will he always be an outlaw?

以女性视角重述《伊利亚特》
英雄史诗的背后是女人无声的悲怆！
☆布克奖得主派特•巴克全新力作
☆入围科斯塔奖短名单、女性小说奖决选名单
☆《纽约时报》年度好书、《经济学人》年度好书、《金融时报》年度好书
☆《卫报》评选“21世纪最伟大的100本书”之一
☆改编电影将由《宠儿》《房间》的出品方Element Pictures与BBC Film共同制作
【编辑推荐】
1.本书作者派特•巴克是布克奖获奖作家，她的代表作《重生三部曲》曾入围布克奖40周年最佳小说，《少女的沉默》是其2018年出版的长篇小说新作，一经推出后便好评如潮，获得诸多权威媒体好评推荐。
2.本书以女性视角重述《伊利亚特》这一西方文学的中心作品，为在荷马笔下失语千年的女性发声，视角独特，文笔雄健。
3.本书入围科斯塔奖、女性小说奖等多个权威文学奖项的决选名单，并荣获包括《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》《经济学人》等众多权威媒体好评推荐。
【内容简介】
因为一个女人（海伦），特洛伊与希腊陷入长达十年的血腥之战。而在希腊人的营地里，另一个女人正在苦等战争结束。布里塞伊斯，昔日特洛伊邻邦吕耳涅索斯的王后，在阿喀琉斯攻入城门，杀死她丈夫、兄弟的那一刻，便成了他的奴隶、战利品。她只有接受现实才能活下去。这个女人沦为阿伽门农与阿喀琉斯角力的筹码。再一次的，男人将冲突和伤亡统统归咎于一个女人……
《少女的沉默》以前所未有的女性视角重新书写《伊利亚特》，透过布里塞伊斯敏锐的双眼，再现了特洛伊战争的残酷，以及千万无辜妇孺的悲惨命运。英雄史诗背后被压抑千年的女性声音，在派特•巴克的雄健文笔下复活、发声，诉说被世代继承的悲剧命运。
【媒体推荐】
《少女的沉默》为那些在战争中被遗忘的女人们发声，让她们被聆听、被见证。
——《华盛顿邮报》
这是一部给人带来震撼的书，它不仅以不同的视角去诠释《伊利亚特》，还让我们用自己的方式讲述过去和现在的故事。
——《卫报》
《少女的沉默》来得如此恰如其分……巴克娴熟地捕捉到了日常生活中女性的声音。
——《出版人周刊》

Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
'Taut, masterly, wholly absorbing. Still one of the greatest stories ever written. A book that will be read in generations to come' Daily Telegraph on The Silence of the Girls
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.
But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Trojan king Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.
Amidst her squabbling captors, Briseis -- now married to Alcimus, but carrying the child of the late Achilles -- must forge alliances where she can: with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, and with wild-eyed Cassandra, the unheeded seer. And so begins the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...

本书是美国文化偶像琼·狄迪恩的代表作，是第一批向公众揭示二战后美国繁荣表象下失序现实的作品，在当时的美国社会掀起现象级的热议，并由此成为影响至今的美国文学殿堂级非虚构写作。书中收录了琼·狄迪恩20多篇名作，包括《向伯利恒跋涉》《加州梦》《黄金梦里人》等。
狄迪恩以冷冽笔 锋和灼热自我，疏离又深陷，还原了1960年代的美国，特别是加州的反文化潮。 “万物解体，中心再难维系”：社会繁华昌盛的表象下，传统的价值观和生活方式已然开始崩塌，而新的未来却遥不可及。社会彻底走向失序，中产阶级生活危机重重，嬉皮士运动兴起；一整代人沉浸在虚无与迷惘中，作出近乎可笑的无力反抗——这是触及美国一个时代灵魂的完整记录。
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★ 美国非虚构文学殿堂级作品，热销40余年
★《江城》作者何伟推荐九部非虚构作品之一
斯坦福大学等高校指定暑期阅读书目
《纽约时报》“20代年轻人应读的11本书”之一
《时代》《卫报》“百大非虚构作品”
★ 美国文化偶像琼·狄迪恩成名作/代表作
★“（琼·狄迪恩是）几十年来，美国政治和文化最尖锐、最被尊敬的观察家。”——奥巴马为狄迪恩颁发美国国家人文奖章授奖词
★以尖锐的视角审视美国的嬉皮士年代，记录1960年代美国的反文化浪潮，再现了一整个时代的情绪。
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关于1960年代美国最有力的著作。
——《时代》
《向伯利恒跋涉》是一个时代的衡量标准，其读者已经不仅仅是其读者了，而是其追随者，其仰慕者，其信徒。
——《名利场》
琼·狄迪恩是美国最伟大的作家之一，同时也是美国最知名的文化偶像之一。
——《洛杉矶时报》
“狄迪恩”不再是一个普通的名词，她的名字已然成为了形容词，“狄迪恩般的”“狄迪恩式的”，指代其相关的一切：一位超脱、充满洞见和预知，但却有着脆弱感的女作家，她揭开美国之疮痍，使其活生生地暴露在美国读者们的面前。
——《卫报》
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中心再难维系。这个国家，破产公告、公开拍卖通知满天飞；随意杀人事件、流离失所的孩子、废弃无人的家园屡见不鲜；那些在文物上涂鸦破坏的人，连四字单词都会拼错。这个国家，总有家庭无缘无故地消失，留下没有还完的账单与抵押到期的文件。青少年们在外游荡，没有过去，也没有未来，如同长蛇蜕皮；孩童懵懂无知，也再无机会了解维系这个社会的游戏规则。人们销声匿迹。孩子不知去向。父母人间蒸发。被抛下的人们漫不经心地填写完失踪报告，然后自顾自地继续活下去。
这个国家，并没有如火如荼的革命，也没有因敌人的包围而走投无路。这是一九六七年的美国。市场稳定，国民生产总值高，多少人慷慨陈词，表达自己崇高的社会理想。
——琼·狄迪恩，《向伯利恒跋涉》

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business.
Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.
From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending,
will hold you in its grip.
WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX

LA GUERRA DE TROYA FUE SIEMPRE LA GUERRA DE LAS MUJERES.
Helena y su inigualable belleza, que resultó ser solo un hueso que los perros rabiosos se disputan; Casandra, cuyas profecías nadie atiende a menos que un varón las enuncie; la obcecada Amina, con la mirada fija en las ruinas, decidida a vengar la muerte de su rey; Hécuba aullando de dolor en la silenciosa orilla, como si sus gritos pudieran alcanzar los pasillos del Hades y despertar a los muertos; y Briseida, que lleva en su vientre al hijo del héroe caído... ¡Ay, las mujeres de Troya, atrapadas de nuevo en la ciega lucha de los hombres!
Una mirada magistral desde la perspectiva de las no combatientes; una novela memorable y poderosa sobre el más grande de los mitos griegos por la autora de El silencio de las mujeres.
Troya ha caído. Los griegos han ganado su amarga guerra. Ahora solo necesitan un buen viento para levantar velas y regresar victoriosos a casa. Pero los vengativos dioses mantienen el mar en contra, por lo que los guerreros permanecen en el limbo, acampados a la sombra de la ciudad que destruyeron, acompañados por las mujeres que raptaron.

本书记录了T. E.劳伦斯在沙漠中的战争回忆，被公认为“英语文学中最伟大的现代史诗”。第一次世界大战爆发后，劳伦斯毅然放弃考古工作，进入开罗军事情报部，负责中东地区的情报收集及战略建议。当时英军认为，以承诺让阿拉伯人在战后独立为名，使阿拉伯建国主义者与英国站在同一阵线，由内陆起兵反抗统治他们多年的奥斯曼土耳其帝国，将有助于协约国在中东地区取得压倒性胜利。劳伦斯在因缘际会于1916年底成为阿拉伯起义运动领袖之一费萨尔阵营中的英军联络官，也成为巴勒斯坦战役的决定性人物。自此至1918年，劳伦斯巧用机谋，在阿拉伯部落间引燃独立建国的燎原之火，善用阿拉伯部落擅长的游击战略，以及阿拉伯沙漠漫无边际、变化难测的特性，率领三千阿拉伯起义军，神出鬼没，专事破坏土耳其的补给铁路，牵制了五万以上的土耳其正规部队，创下历史上代价最小而获利巨大的战果。

陈梦家是中国现代史上难得的一位大才！他的前半生充满着激情与浪漫，后半生却写尽屈辱与坎坷。 本书全面细致地书写了这位新月派诗人、古文字学家、明式家具收藏家陈梦家一生及其交往密切的朋友圈。全书分别绘制出陈梦家与闻一多、胡适、梅贻琦、容庚、唐兰、夏鼐、王世襄等19位名家的交往图景。从中展现了这位才华横溢的诗人、国宝守护者、考古学家、古文字大家、明式家具收藏家短暂、璀璨却又坎坷的一生。从全书陈梦家的朋友圈，可见一个大时代中知识分子们的治学、处世及各自命运的沉浮变迁。

The plot revolves around Georges de Sarre, a fourteen-year-old boy who is sent to a Catholic boarding school in 1920s France. Getting to know the other boys, he is immediately interested in Lucien Rouvière, of whom he is warned by the unsympathetic Marc de Blajan, who cryptically informs him that some of the students "may seem good, but are in fact not". Georges is dismayed when he learns that Lucien already has a boyfriend, André Ferron. He befriends Lucien, but filled with envy, tries to destroy their relationship, eventually succeeding in getting André expelled in a Machiavellian scheme.
When his advances towards Lucien remain fruitless, Georges starts a "special friendship", i.e. a friendship with homosexual overtones, with a twelve-year-old student, the beautiful Alexandre (Alexander) Motier. The priests who lead the school disapprove of these relationships, even though it does not go beyond a few kisses and love poems, with no sexual connotation.
Despite their air of condemnation of these special friendships, some of the priests harbour sexual feelings for the boys. One of them, Father de Trennes, likes to invite boys to join him in his room at night for a few drinks and cigarettes. Georges continues his scheming ways and gets Father de Trennes expelled by an anonymous letter. However, Father Lauzon, who is a friend of Alexandre's family and wants to protect him, learns about their relationship and demands that it be ended immediately.
Lauzon talks Georges into giving back the love letters from Alexander, which at the time the novel is set meant that a relationship was over. Unfortunately, Alexander cannot see that Georges was forced to do this and that his feelings for him are actually unchanged—and commits suicide.
The work has been praised for its elegant style, and the discretion with which the subject is treated. One example is the question which Alexander poses to Georges: "Georges, do you know the things one should not know?"

In July 1914 a family gathers at a holiday hotel in Devon. There is a dominant father and a socially ambitious mother who adores her son Dennis. When he arrives it is at once clear to the reader why he does not fit in with his smugly conventional family.
Then, with the outbreak of war, the tone of the book changes: it focuses on Dennis’s refusal to fight, indeed on his abhorrence of violence; his falling in love with Alan; and his close friendship with Antoinette, who has not realised she is lesbian but is unabashed when she does. Dennis, however, is in agony about being ‘a musical man’ (slang for being gay): ‘Abnormal – perverted – against nature – he could hear the epithets that would be hurled against him. But what had nature been about, in giving him the soul of a woman in the body of a man?’
Running through all this is the background of the war. At first everyone thought it would be over by Christmas. Then there were the horrors of 1915. And then conscription started. Month by month one sees what happens to Dennis and the other COs (conscientious objectors) he knows.
The book was published by C.W. Daniel, a pacifist publisher, in May 1918. In September the book was banned for being ‘likely to prejudice the recruiting, training, and discipline of persons in his Majesty’s forces.’ Unsold copies were seized and the publisher was fined.

Born Eileen Mary Challans in London in 1905, Mary Renault wrote six successful contemporary novels before turning to the historical fiction about ancient Greece for which she is best known. While Renault's novels are still highly regarded, her life and work have never been completely examined. Caroline Zilboorg seeks to remedy this in The Masks of Mary Renault by exploring Renault's identity as a gifted writer and a sexual woman in a society in which neither of these identities was clear or easy.
Although Renault's life was anything but ordinary, this fact has often been obscured by her writing. The daughter of a doctor, she grew up comfortably and attended a boarding school in Bristol. She received a degree in English from St. Hugh's College in Oxford in 1928, but she chose not to pursue an academic career. Instead, she decided to attend the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where she trained to be a nurse. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was assigned to the Winford Emergency Hospital in Bristol and briefly worked with Dunkirk evacuees. She went on to work in the Radcliffe Infirmary's brain surgery ward and was there until 1945.
It was during her nurse's training that Renault met Julie Mullard, who became her lifelong companion. This important lesbian relationship both resolved and posed many problems for Renault, not the least of which was how she was to write about issues at once intensely personal and socially challenging. In 1939, Renault published her first novel under a pseudonym in order to mask her identity. It was a time when she was struggling not only with her vocation (nursing and writing), but also with her sexual identity in the social and moral context of English life during the war.
In 1948, Renault left England with Mullard for South Africa and never returned. It was in South Africa that she made the shift from her early contemporary novels of manners to the mature historical novels of Hellenic life. The classical settings allowed Renault to mask material too explosive to deal with directly while simultaneously giving her an "academic" freedom to write about subjects vital to her—among them war, peace, career, women's roles, female and male homosexuality, and bisexuality.
Renault's reception complicates an understanding of her achievement, for she has a special status within the academic community, where she is both widely read and little written about. Her interest in sexuality and specifically in homosexuality and bisexuality, in fluid gender roles and identities, warrants a rereading and reevaluation of her work. Eloquently written and extensively researched, The Masks of Mary Renault will be of special value to anyone interested in women's studies or English literature.

A compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller set in a midwestern strip club, told by New York Times bestselling author Marie Rutkoski in the spirit of Gillian Flynn and Tana French
It’s 1999, and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She’s not used to taking anyone under her wing―after all, between her disapproving boyfriend and his daughter, who may as well be her own child, she has enough to worry about. But when Samantha overrides her better judgment to drive a new dancer home, they are run off the road. The police arrive at the scene of the accident―but find only one body.
Georgia, another dancer, is drawn into the investigation as she tries to assist Holly, a Harvard-educated detective with a complicated story of her own. As the point of view shifts from dancers and detectives to club patrons and children, the women round up a list of suspects, all the while grappling with their understandings of loss and love.
Drawing on her personal experiences as well as interviews with police, Rutkoski immerses us in a subculture that is all too often reduced to cliché. Gripping, deeply feminist, and character-driven, Real Easy spellbinds us and gets to the heart of this timeless question: How do women live out their lives knowing that men can hurt them?

"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive. A one-page outline is useful since there are no editorial additions to mark major divisions in the dialogue. An appendix containing fragments of early Greek love poetry helps the reader appreciate the rich, and perhaps elusive, meaning of eros. . . . The entire Introduction is crisply written, and the authors' erudition shines throughout, without a trace of pedantry. . . . this is an excellent book that deservedly should find wide circulation for many years to come." --Tim Mahoney, University of Texas at Arlington

James, a first-year student at Cambridge, is overwhelmed by the thrill of opportunity and startled by his own hunger for friendship. He finds himself seduced by a covert and exclusive circle of friends - the 'Tudor Night Climbers' - who scale the university's turrets after dark, transforming it into a dangerous playground of spiralling heights. When still only a novice member of his tribe, James begins to fall for the only female in the group, the enigmatic and beautiful Jessica, and is soon at the heart of a fatal love triangle with the reckless and charismatic leader of the group, Francis. When a volatile relationship finally explodes, the Night Climbers' funding suddenly dries up, until Francis dreams up a heist that will secure them millions, but will also test their very souls.Partly inspired by the original 'Night Climbers' of the Sixties who famously made dare-devil leaps from college roofs, this passionate exploration of youth at its most vital and unstable marks the debut of a strikingly gifted new writer.

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.”
Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.
True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.
The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.
Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words.

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy.? Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and progressive. The story is full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study:? the feudal squire clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new world of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two girls brought together by their parent's marriage...

Bella Sorensen loves men.
She loves them to death . . .
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Early in life Bella Sorensen discovers the world is made only for men. They own everything: jobs, property, wives. But Bella understands what few others do: where women are concerned, men are weak.
A woman unhampered by scruples can take from them what she wants. And so Bella sets out to prove to the world that a woman can be just as ruthless, black-hearted and single-minded as any man.
Starting with her long suffering husband, Mads, Bella embarks on a killing spree the like of which has never been seen before nor since.
And through it all her kind, older sister Nellie can only watch in horror as Bella's schemes to enrich herself and cut down the male population come to a glorious, dreadful fruition . . .
Based on the true story of Belle Gunness whose murderous rampage began in Chicago in 1900, Triflers Need Not Apply is a novelistic tour de force exploring one woman's determination to pay men back for all they have taken.

Featuring fourteen short stories,
spans six decades of E. M. Forster's literary career, tracking every phase of his development. Never having sought publication for most of the stories--only two were published in his lifetime--Forster worried his career would suffer because of their overtly homosexual themes. Instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence.
With stories that are lively and amusing ("What Does It Matter?"; "The Obelisk"), and others that are more somber and thought-provoking ("Dr Woolacott"; "Arthur Snatchfold"),
sheds a light on Forster's powerful but suppressed explorations beyond the strictures of conventional society.
- Ansell
- Albergo Empedocle
- The Purple Envelope
- The Helping Hand
- The Rock
- The Life to Come
- Dr. Woolacott
- Arthur Snatchfold
- The Obelisk
- What Does It Matter? A Morality
- The Classical Annex
- The Torque
- The Other Boat
- Three Courses and a Dessert: Being a New and Gastronomic Version of the Game of Consequences