英国北方一个大城市里，住着一个扫烟囱的小男孩，名叫汤姆。他失去双亲，被恶棍雇用，整天在烟囱里爬上爬下，清扫烟尘。他的师父经常打骂他，但他仍无忧无虑，十分快活。
一天，他遇到了一位穷苦妇女，其实她是关心小男孩的仙女。
他在水里睡着了，躯体被淹没，但他并没有死，而是脱去了身上的污垢，变成一个身材小巧的水孩子。
汤姆跟其他的水孩子一起来到一座神奇的仙岛。在那儿，他如果能够到达闪光墙，通过永不打开的白色大门，就能成长为真正的男子汉。

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mournsthe death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf forcompany. But those books have begun to whisper to him in thedarkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imaginationand soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. Whilehis family falls apart around him, David is violently propelledinto a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populatedby heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps hissecrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things.Taking readers on a vivid journey through the lossof innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Timesbestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling talethat reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.
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Trainspotting is the novel that launched the sensational career of Irvine Welsh - an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh that has the linguistic energy of A Clockwork Orange and the literary impact of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Begbie are as unforgettable a clutch of rude boys, junkies, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.

二战时，男孩戴维的妈妈得了重病。他强迫自己执行一套规定，因为他相信妈妈的命运跟他的行为联系在一起：单数糟，双数好，所以他无论做什么都要双数……尽管他小心翼翼，可妈妈还是弃他而去。丧母的悲伤和痛楚，使戴维不能自已。父亲再婚所带来的惊愕和冲击，对继母及新生儿弟弟的嫉妒与憎恶…深深的幽怨在戴维的身边织就一个幻灵的诡境，他听见了书在说话。从小就和妈妈一起阅读的童话故事，迥异于常的白雪公主、小红帽、骑士罗兰……从黑夜里、从林地里召唤戴维，呼唤他进入一个充满残酷、血腥、征伐的险境。在那里，一切如同真实的人生道路，充满了险恶和重重难关。惟有不逃避、惟有肯原谅，惟有找到神奇国度里那本被遗忘的《失物之书》，戴维才能得到新生。

《荒人手记》为台湾著名女作家朱天文的长篇小说代表作。1994年，朱天文创作了长篇小说《荒人手记》，并一举夺得台湾首届时报文学百万小说大奖首奖。朱天文对这部作品也最为自负，称有了这部作品，“终于可以和张爱玲平了”。
这本书采用同性恋的视角，以一个中年同志的手记形式来写作。实际上作家与第一人称是分离的，身份特征被作家借用。全书遣词造语极端风格化，精炼而浓稠度甚高，句句箴言，故事性方面则涵盖许多面向，形式独特，近似意识流手法，将生活事件拆散成充满生命力的碎片加以知觉化的重组，传达对生命与生活的思考，一度曾被质疑其是否可归类为小说样式，引发讨论。

A "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearA "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the YearA "Washington Post" Best Fiction Book of the YearA "New York" Magazine "Future Canon" SelectionA "Chicago"" Tribune" Favorite Book of the YearOne of "The Seattle Times"' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the YearAn Amazon Top 100 Editors' Picks of the Year An Amazon Top 10 Editors' pick: Debut Fiction (#6)An Amazon Top 10 Editors' pick: Gay and Lesbian (#1) "Call Me by Your Name "is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. Andre Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.

这本书介绍了电影《魔戒》中的霍比特人、贝格恩、布雷、阿拉贡、埃尔隆德、阿尔温、奥克斯、白衣萨茹曼等主要人物的背景。

这本小说以作者早年生活经历为蓝本，叙述了19岁的大二女生埃斯特· 格林伍德经历了充当某知名杂志社的客座编辑、参加写作班被拒、自杀未遂、接受心理治疗、重树自信期待返回社会，展开新生活的一系列过程。本文从“榜样缺失”的角度出发，结合当时美国的实际，探讨埃斯特作为女性，在其成长过程中男性社会压抑下所产生的孤独、绝望与挣扎的心灵历程以及反抗的必然性。
全优女孩埃斯特成为某时尚杂志征文比赛获奖者,谁知道这是她噩梦的开始……普拉斯自传体小说《钟形罩》喜剧笔调下的本质是悲剧。人们拒绝认真对待一个女人丰富颤栗的情感，指望通过电休克疗法治愈心灵的绝望。事实上她已经令人恐惧地滑向疯狂的深渊。 普拉斯与另一位杰出诗人休斯的惊世恋情是二十世纪英美诗坛最大的公案，女诗人年仅三十岁便自杀自亡，她不曾预知自己会获得普利策奖，作品又极其畅销。虽然本书中“我”最终走出了黑暗，谁又能看透普拉斯本人内心的隐秘?

一天深夜，一个十五岁的美国少女在她父亲书房里发现一本古书和一袋信。每封信的抬头都是“我亲爱的、不幸的继承者……”。这些信，开启了一座她做梦都不会梦到的历史“迷宫”，其中有她父亲过去的秘密，以及与隐藏在历史深处的邪恶力量有关的她母亲失踪之谜。
几百年来，一代又一代历史学家们不惜以自己的名誉、安全为代价，苦苦追寻产生吸血鬼的历史源头——中世纪中欧残暴的统治者“刺穿者”弗拉德的下落，从而铲除吸血鬼这一人类历史上最黑暗的力量。少女的父母，多年前就开始了追踪吸血鬼的惊魂之旅。少女决心要追随父母未竟的事业。
从牛津大学图书馆到伊斯坦布尔、布达佩斯，到东欧诸国的乡野山区，父女二人穿梭在城市、修道院、档案馆，在追踪各种晦涩的线索与隐藏的文本、密码中，逐步逼近“刺穿者”弗拉德可怕的真相，而少女也逐渐了解了自己不同寻常的身世。

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a vacant highway, towards the sea, sustained only by the vague hope of finding warmth and more "good guys" like them, and carrying with them only what is on their backs and what will fit into a damaged supermarket cart.
The setting is very cold, dark and filled with ash and the land is devoid of living vegetation. There is frequent rain or snow, and electrical storms are common. Many of the remaining human survivors are cannibalistic gangs or nomads, scavenging the detritus of city and country alike for human flesh, though that too is almost entirely depleted.
Overwhelmed by this desperate and apparently hopeless situation, the boy's mother, pregnant with him at the time of the cataclysm, commits suicide when the boy is about five or six; the rationality and calmness of her act being her last "great gift" to the man and the boy. The father coughs blood every morning and eventually realizes he is dying, yet still struggles to protect his son from the constant threats of attack, exposure, and starvation. The revolver they carry, meant for protection or suicide if necessary, has only one round for the entire story. The boy has been told to use it on himself if capture is imminent, to spare himself the horror of death at the hands of the cannibals.
In the face of these obstacles, the man and the boy have only each other. They repeatedly assure one another that they are "the good guys," who are "carrying the fire." On their journey, the duo scrounge for food, encounter roving bands of cannibals, and contend with horrors such as a newborn infant being roasted on a spit, and people being kept captive as they are slowly harvested for food. The vast majority of the book is written in the third person, with references to "the father" and "the son" or to "the man" and "the boy."
Although the man and the boy eventually reach the sea, neither the climate nor availability of food has improved. The man succumbs to an illness and dies, leaving the boy alone, though not long before he dies, the father tells the boy that he can continue to speak with him in his imagination after he is gone. The boy holds wake over his father's corpse for three days, with no idea of what he is to do next. On the third day, the grieving boy encounters a man who has been tracking the father and son. This man, who has a woman and two children of his own, a boy and a girl, invites him to join his family after convincing the boy that he is indeed one of the "good guys" like the boy and his dead father. A brief epilogue following meditates on nature and infinity in this altered environment.

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

一个古怪的父亲，一对儿古怪的姐妹。菲利普•马洛第一次登场，面对的就是这样一个家庭。老迈而富有的将军请马洛去寻找他的女婿，他的两个女儿却一直阻止马洛采取进一步行动，花痴一样的妹妹甚至头头爬到马洛的床上。诱惑力十足的姐姐则送上双唇。
只认识钱的混混儿、最有情意的流氓、租售淫秽书籍的同性恋……马洛本来只是找一个不见的人，结果确见了这么多人。他要一个一个和他们打交道，用他利如刀锋的语言和拳头、手枪。
这是雷蒙德•钱德勒第一部长篇小说，他把迈克尔•凯恩开创的黑色小说和达谢尔•哈米特开创的硬汉小说结合在了一起，从此将自己的名字铸在侦探小说的门楣上，并铺下了通往今日的苏•格拉夫顿、以及CSI等犯罪电视之路的第一块砖。

《漫长的告别》是雷蒙德·钱德勒最重要的一本小说，它是钱德勒风格的集大成者。这部作品发表于1953年，是作者的第六部长篇，荣获了“爱伦·坡奖”年度最佳小说。
一个优雅有礼的酒鬼和一个贫穷高贵的私家侦探相遇，会发生怎样一种诚挚而悲伤的友谊？伦诺克斯酒醉后被马洛送回，他稍后寄來一张五千美元的巨钞做为感谢和告別，然而，一连串谋杀，却使这个告別绵绵不绝……

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.
The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the presence of Egdon Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a preacher.
From AudioFile
Clym Yeobright, native of Egdon Heath, returns from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending, but more by the mastery of Alan Rickman's reading. At the start, Rickman senses the voice for each character in Hardy's fictional world, and he maintains each character's personality throughout. He even manages to project Hardy's subtle shadings of tone with the rhythm and tempo of his narration, throwing in a song here and there because, in spite of his gloom, there is a festive strain to Hardy, as well. If you have a hard time reading this classic English writer, this is how to do it. P.E.F.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1878. The novel is set on Egdon Heath, a barren moor in the fictional Wessex in southwestern England. The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster after a successful but, in his opinion, shallow career as a jeweler in Paris. He and his cousin Thomasin exemplify the traditional way of life, while Thomasin's husband, Damon Wildeve, and Clym's wife, Eustacia Vye, long for the excitement of city life. Disappointed that Clym is content to remain on the heath, Eustacia, willful and passionate, rekindles her affair with the reckless Damon. After a series of coincidences Eustacia comes to believe that she is responsible for the death of Clym's mother. Convinced that fate has doomed her to cause others pain, Eustacia flees and is drowned (by accident or intent). Damon drowns trying to save her. In a later edition, to please his readers, Hardy made additions to his novel. Thomasin marries Diggory Venn, a humble, long-time suitor, and Clym becomes an itinerant preacher.
About Author
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), the author of Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, and many other novels, was also an accomplished poet. Many of his works, including his poetry, are available from Penguin Classics.
Tony Slade was for many years Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Adelaide, Australia.Penny Boumelha is Jury Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide.
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length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6
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《中性》是杰弗里·尤金尼德斯的第二部小说。作品获得了2003年普利策文学奖。
主人公斯蒂芬尼德斯出生过两次：第一次是1960年1月出生在底特律的一个没有烟雾的日子，那时他是个女婴儿；第二次是1974年8月出生在密执安州皮托斯基附近的一个急诊室里，那时他是个十几岁的男孩子。他原名卡利俄珀，出生时是个漂亮姑娘。童年至少年她无忧无虑地生活。直到1974年她14岁，就读于家乡的女子中学时，越来越觉得自己与其他女孩不同：身高5英尺10英寸，体重130磅，更可怕的是身体上竟出现了一些男孩应有的特征。在父母陪同下她来到医院，医生告诉他们：她是个两性人。14岁的卡利俄 珀决心不再做女孩，于是“她”变成了“他”——卡尔。他剪短头，搭车来到旧金山寻找新出路。

For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.

一场空难让戴维·齐默教授失去了深爱的妻子和两个年幼的儿子，面对突如其来的打击，他不知所措，他迷失了自我，他觉得自己也成了一个死人。他足不出户，沉溺于悲伤的酗酒泥潭中不可自拔，直到六个月后的某个夜晚，他偶然在电视里看到了默片谐星海克特·曼的电影片断，才惊讶地发现自己居然还有笑的能力——于是，为了看完所有海克特的老电影，他开始周游世界，那成了使他继续活下去的惟一动力。
海克特是谁？海克特是原籍阿根廷的喜剧天才，作为正在二十年代美国电影界冉冉升起的一颗耀眼明星，他却在一天清晨突然离家出走，从此杳无音讯，六十年来，他的失踪始终是一个不解之谜，所有人都认为他已经不在人世。然而，在齐默教授撰写的关于海克特喜剧默片的书出版后，他却收到了一封新墨西哥荒漠中的来信，信上称海克特还活着，并想同他会面！正当齐默半信半疑，犹豫不决之际，一位神秘女子忽然出现，她彻底改变了他的人生，使他走上了一段不可思议的幻影之旅……

“朗读者”是一个叫做米歇尔·白格的少年。白格在他十五岁的那一年，巧遇并结识了三十六岁的妇女汉娜。汉娜足可以做他的母亲，可他们却成了秘密情人。然而，公共汽车售票员汉娜，在纳粹时期，竟然是臭名昭著的集中营女看守。汉娜一直对白格隐瞒着自己的经历并在关键时刻失踪了。当白格作为法律系大学生参与法庭实习的时候，审判的战犯之一就是汉娜。而白格发现自己居然还深深地爱着汉娜。