《精灵宝钻》是托尔金对中洲世界起源的设定，蕴含着他为英语民族塑造创世史诗的雄心，由小儿子克里斯托弗•托尔金在其身后整理出版。16幅全彩插画，译文全新修订，新增托尔金揭秘创作历程长文。
始有一如，“独一之神”，其名在世间称为伊露维塔。
精灵，一如的首生子女，生永世热爱星光，他们的美丽并不凋谢或者消逝。
人类，次生子女，一如赐给了他们决定自己命运的自由，还有一样奇特的礼物——死亡。随着时间流逝，连众神亦会嫉羡。
精灵宝钻，由最有天赋的精灵——费艾诺造出。宝钻蕴藏着曾在双圣树上的维林诺之光，那是尚无任何堕落发生的太初时代的最后孑遗。第一代黑暗魔君、堕落的魔苟斯盗走了它们。费艾诺众子发下亵渎神灵的誓言，执意离开家园，前去向大敌发动战争、复仇到底。他们蛊惑族人违背诸神，渡海出征。
同族相残，堕落由此开始……

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

《努门诺尔与中洲之未完的传说》汇集了自远古至魔戒大战结束、时间跨度足有数千年之久的种种中洲逸事：
巫师甘道夫对促成矮人聚首袋底洞、谋复孤山的生动叙述；
伊熙尔杜身遭不测，魔戒落入大河的前因后果；
加拉德瑞尔的过往与力量之戒的铸成；
刚铎与洛汗两国缘何结下同仇敌忾的生死盟约；
沉沦之地努门诺尔漫长历史遗留的唯一记载；
以及初代黑暗魔君尚未败亡之时，杜内丹人的先祖图奥是如何亲见司掌众水之神乌欧牟现身于贝烈瑞安德的海滨，传奇英雄图林又何以慨叹自己“自童年起就在魔苟斯的黑暗迷雾中摸索”。
本书是为渴望更加了解中洲的语言文化、历史传说、风土人情的读者准备的厚礼。
诚然，书中“每个故事都是‘未完’的，差别只在程度的深浅，并且是多种意义上的‘未完’”，但传奇本无穷尽，故也永不终结。

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia, " that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world -- so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions -- a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.


Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

《美丽新世界》是二十世纪最经典的反乌托邦文学之一。这部作品与乔治·奥威尔的《1984》、扎米亚京的《我们》并称为“反乌托邦”三书，在国内外思想界影响深远。
书中引用了广博的生物学、心理学知识，为我们描绘了虚构的福特纪元632年即公元2532年的社会。这是一个人从出生到死 亡都受着控制的社会。在这个“美丽新世界”里，由于社会与生物控制技术的发展，人类已经沦为垄断基因公司和政治人物手中的玩偶。这种统治甚至从基因和胎儿阶段就开始了。
这是一个有阶级、有社会分工的社会，人类经基因控制孵化，被分为五个阶级，分别从事劳心、劳力、创造、统治等不同性质的社会活动。人们习惯于自己从事的任何工作，视恶劣的生活和工作环境与极高的工作强度为幸福。因此，这是，一个快乐的社会，这种快乐还有别的措施保障，比如睡眠教学，催眠术被广泛用来校正人的思维，国家还发放叫做索麻的精神麻醉药物让人忘掉不愉快的事情。
正是在这个“美丽新世界”里，人们失去了个人情感，失去了爱情——性代替了爱，失去了痛苦、激情和经历危险的感觉。最可怕的是，人们失去了思考的权利，失去了创造力。

恐惧会瘫痪我们的人生，害怕犯错让我们什么事都不敢做！29岁的诺艾儿接到裁员通知的时候，正和男友在小岛上度假。这个晴天霹雳让她失神了好几个星期，直到她在一家咖啡馆的布告栏上看到一句话：每天做一件自己害怕的事。
诺艾儿的脑海突然出现了许多画面：因为担心自己的想法听起来很蠢，所以她从来不发表意见；因为痛恨在众人面前演讲，所以她拒绝在小组会议中发言；即使工作很烂还是继续待着，因为留下来比离开容易；去跳蚤市场买东西，老板说多少她就付多少，因为讨价还价好尴尬；还有好多好多，包括害怕别人不高兴、害怕挺身而出、不敢为自己辩护、没化妆就出门很丢脸……她经常逃跑，经常劝自己打消主意。但以前的诺艾儿可是自信满满、积极上进，什么时候开始她却害怕改变，只想待在原地？她的人生因为这样错过了多少机会？还要这样继续逃避下去吗？于是，诺艾儿决定，她要在30岁以前，用一年的时间来面对恐惧：每天做一件自己害怕的事！

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised -- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE SILMARILLION, THE HOBBIT, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day -- including all the battles and key locations of the First, Second, and Third Ages. Plans and descriptions of castles, buildings, and distinctive landforms are given, along with thematic maps describing the climate, vegetation, languages, and population distribution of Middle-earth throughout its history. An extensive appendix and an index help readers correlate the maps with Tolkien's novels.

Arthur Conan Doyle's enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes has his own undeniable place in the public eye. Holmes is often seen applying concepts of some branch of science in his work, discussing scientific matters with Watson, or is involved in situations where the applicability of the formal sciences is apparent. The Scientific Sherlock Holmes connects Holmes' vegetable poisons with concepts in botany, his use of fingerprinting with forensic science, and carbon monoxide poisoning and hemoglobin tests with concepts in chemistry, thus integrating the Holmes stories with all branches of science.

Four-volume paperback boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, together with The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, an annotated guide to all three parts of the Book of the Century. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike. One hundred million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors' editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. Now, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication, the text has been fully restored with almost 400 corrections - with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien - making it the definitive version of the text, and as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien wanted. In addition to now having the definitive version of the text, this paperback set also includes a companion volume, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, a unique annotated guide to the text, which will enhance the reader's enjoyment and understanding of the book of the 20th century.

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting inthe Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas.If you look hard enough you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.