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作者 : 戴安娜·赛特菲尔德
从小在父亲的古旧书店帮忙的姑娘玛格丽特，爱好读经典小说和传记。一天，她突然收到著名女作家维达·温特的来信。温特性格古怪而低调，常常编造自己的各种离奇故事糊弄记者，但谁也不知道她的真正来历。可她居然写信邀请默默无闻的玛格丽特来为她写传。出于好奇，同样深居简出的玛格丽特来到偏僻的温特家。如温特所述，她的母亲伊莎贝拉美丽任性，父亲和哥哥完全听命于她，伊莎贝拉生下的一对双胞胎女儿却行为怪异。玛格丽特对女作家的故事既着迷，又困惑。半信半疑中，她开始调查这个家族，依照自己的调查结果将温特讲述的家族故事拼接起来。然而，寻找真相的过程令人胆战心惊，也彻底改变了玛格丽特自己的命运……
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Overnight to Many Different Cities
作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
Kaleidoscopically mesmerizing... Powerfully illuminating -- Village VoiceFrom New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, this sophisticated and surreal collection of short stories and brief visionary texts takes us on an exhilarating tour of the modern urban -- and psychological -- landscape. Alexandra, a designer of artificial ruins, creates a ruined wall with classical columns and a number of broken urns for a park in Arizona; a journalist for a magazine called Folks sets out to interview nine people who have been struck by lightning; and a retired messman steals fifty-three mothballed ships from the U.S. government.Like a master magician, working with control and illusion, Barthelme breaks all rules. Manipulating language with irony, humor, and imagination, he captures the essence of our disorienting times.Dizzying and enjoyable -- Publishers WeeklyEnticing. . . flecked with charm, surprise, and challenge -- Kirkus Reviews
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作者 : C·S·刘易斯
Prince Caspian finds the four Pevensie siblings pulled back into the land of Narnia, where 1000 years have passed since they left. The children are again enlisted to join the colorful creatures of Narnia, who have been driven into the wild, unfriendly parts of the land. The Pevensies must struggle to overthrow a usurping king named Miraz and restore the rightful heir to the throne, the young Prince Caspian.
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作者 : 奥修
This book contains early discourses in which Osho examines one of man’s greatest taboos: death. Exposing the fallacy behind the notion that death is a calamity, Osho also throws light on the paradoxical relationship between life and death. In addition, the reader is lead through Osho’s specially devised meditation related to the experience of death, techniques to increase awareness and to recall past lives.
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作者 : 查尔斯·兰姆
兰姆的散文早已成为经典。这经典中都写了些什么呢？什么都写，涉及人生与社会的各个方面：读书、论画、说牌、叙旧、怀古、言情、修传、拾轶……总之，社会百般无所不谈。但其精彩还不在其题材和内容，而在他在这些题材和内容里发掘了赋予了新的意义。他作品有鲜明的个人特色，高度个性化的吐属中包含了众多不同的声音，清浅通俗的表达中伴随着凝重文雅的情调，亲切易解的文句中而兼具着古香古色的气氛，日常现实的题材中凝聚着传统与文化的积淀，民俗与历史的联想，诗情与画意的沾润，因而比一般文人笔下的东西丰富得多，具有了多方面的广阔与厚度。本文是一件多彩衣，一具百宝箱，一座众生相的活画廓和一部最迷人心魂的有趣的散文集。
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作者 : 蓝斯顿·休斯
蓝斯顿休斯是美国中上最伟大的诗人之一。就像其他许许多多的作家，他的写作题材来自于他的生活经验，即他身边的人、事、地。虽然休斯对来自于社会各阶层的人都很友善，如：富人、中产阶级及贫穷人，而这些所谓的低下阶层的人们对他的诗作影响深远 。休斯将这个措辞视为某种类型的赞赏，他欣赏这些人，因为「他们毫无疑问的接受美丽就是己身的想法。」您认为这句话代表了什么意义？也许这句话意指低下阶层的人们能够领会存在他们生活中的美好事物。休斯热爱黑人音乐尤其是表达悲伤主题的蓝调音乐。他在芝加哥、纽约、堪萨斯市及华盛顿特区内的俱乐部聆听这 种音乐。他听的歌是讲述人们决心征服艰难。在「称为蓝调的歌曲」(Songs Called the Blues，1941)中，休斯形容这类音乐是「深受打击却打不垮的黑人唱腔」；1958年，在爵士及蓝调音乐家(如：查尔斯明格斯Charles Mingus)的伴奏下，休斯将他的诗作录制出版 。您曾听过随音乐吟诵的诗作吗？藍斯頓休斯藉由創作作品來表達對政治及不公的感受。他到他國旅行以學習他人是如何處理種族議題。儘管他是非常自由派的，休斯仍為持有保守觀點的非裔美人說話。例如1941年的「布克的敘事歌謠」(Ballad of Booker T.)即是休斯為前奴隸及保守的平等提倡者布克華盛頓 (Booker T. Washington) 所作的詩。這首詩將焦點放在華盛頓為爭取種族和平所做出的努力，而未對其做出任何批評：Sometimes he hadcompromise in his talk--for a man must crawlbefore he can walkand in Alabama in '85a joker was luckyto be alive. 休斯以不得不「妥協」來解釋華盛頓的立場。為達目的，您是否曾妥協或改變您的觀點過？Langston Hughes is one of America's greatest poets. Like so many writers, he wrote about what he knew -- the people, places and events around him. Although Hughes was friendly with people from all walks of life, the rich, the middle class and the poor, it was the people he called the low-down folks who had the greatest influence on his poetry. Hughes used this expression as a form of praise. He admired these people because they accept what beauty is their own without question. What do you think this means? Perhaps the phrase means that the low-down folks appreciated the beauty that existed in their lives. Hughes loved the music of his people, especially the blues, songs that express sad themes. He heard this music in clubs in Chicago, New York, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. The songs he heard were about people who were determined to overcome hardships. In Songs Called the Blues (1941), Hughes said this music was sung by black, beaten but unbeatable throats. In 1958, Hughes recorded his poetry to the accompaniment of the music of jazz and blues artists such as Charles Mingus. Have you ever heard poetry recited to music? Langston Hughes believed in using his art to get across his feelings about politics and injustice. He traveled to other countries to learn how they dealt with racial issues. Despite his own very liberal beliefs, Hughes defended African American activists who held more conservative views. For example, in the 1941 poem Ballad of Booker T., Hughes defends Booker T. Washington, a former slave and more conservative advocate for equality. Rather than criticize him, the poet focused on Washington's strategy to gain racial equality:Sometimes he hadcompromise in his talk--for a man must crawlbefore he can walkand in Alabama in '85a joker was luckyto be alive.Hughes explained Washington's position by saying he had to compromise. Have you ever had to compromise, or change your point of view, to get what you wanted?
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作者 : 约翰·弥尔顿
Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
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作者 : 约翰·多恩
John Donne (1572-1631) was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy, poems about true love, Neoplatonic lyrics on the mystical union of lovers' souls and bodies and brilliant satires and hymns depicting his own spiritual struggles. The two Anniversaries - An Anatomy of the World (1611) and Of the Progress of the Soul (1612)--are elegies for 15-year-old Elizabeth Drury.Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics.Obsessed with the idea of death, Donne preached what was called his own funeral sermon, Death's Duel just a few weeks before he died in London on March 31, 1631.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
作者 : 路易斯·卡罗尔
Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sisteron the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had nopictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
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作者 : 菲利普·普尔曼
Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, Come on, come on...But his mother hung back. She was still afraid. Will looked up and down the narrow street in the evening light, along the little terrace of houses, each behind its tiny garden and its box hedge, with the sun glaring off the windows of one side and leaving the other in shadow. There wasn't much time. People would be having their meal about now, and soon there would be other children around, to stare and comment and notice. It was dangerous to wait, but all he could do was persuade her, as usual.
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作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, possibility-haunted colloquies, stripped of everything save voices, changing pairs of women and pairs of men range an emotional terrain whose poles are hope and memory. Extravagant, profane, and comic, the dialogues are a considerable achievement, testing the possibilities of form and extending our engagement with the world. In other stories Barthelme explores the tragic, ambiguous relationship between Cortés and Montezuma, uncovers units of the Swedish army on maneuvers in Manhattan, offers a country-music version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, describes a heroic cutting contest between a king of jazz and a young challenger, and provides an account of a group of zombies out on a wife-buying expedition.As Philip Stevick wrote in The Nation, Donald Barthelme's stories stand as touchstones for narrative art of the last two decades. Great Days is an important addition to an already impressive body of work.
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作者 : 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫
Table of Contents1. A Haunted House2. A Society3. Monday or Tuesday4. An Unwritten Novel5. The String Quartet6. Blue & Green7. Kew Gardens【邱园记事】8. The Mark on the Wall【墙上的斑点】
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作者 : 奥斯卡·王尔德
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.天生漂亮异常的道林格雷因见了画家霍华德给他画的真人一样大的肖像，发现了自己惊人的美，又听信了亨利爵士的吹嘘，开始为自己韶华易逝，美貌难久感到痛苦，表示希望那幅肖像能代替自己承担岁月和心灵的负担，而让自己永远保持青春貌美。他的这个想入非非的愿望后来却莫名其妙的实现了。他开始挥霍自己的罪恶，最后这幅肖像却成为了记录恶行的证据，他因肖像而生也因肖像而死。《道林·格雷的画像》具有很强的唯美倾向，不但文辞绚丽，意象新颖，有许多带有王尔德特色的俏皮话，幽默，似非而是之论，矛盾诡辩之辞。虽有时给人堆砌之感，内容却相当独特，值得耐心细读。该书作者王尔德是英国19世纪末期的著名唯美主义文学的最有影响力的作家，以下是该书的序言。从中可以感受到那为艺术而艺术的强烈的唯美主义。该篇词藻华丽，是学习英语文章的典范之一。
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作者 : 华盛顿·欧文
The 1820 Washington Irving classic. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a chilling tale of romantic rivalry and supernatural terror. The story begins with Ichabod Crane becoming the new schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod comes to the idea of marrying the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel.In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
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作者 : 约翰·弥尔顿
Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
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作者 : 谭恩美
At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do.Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins
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