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作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
Experimentation with the absurd, both in theme and technique, is by no means a totally new development in literature, especially for those readers familiar with the works of Camus, Kafka, Beckett, Genêt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like these writers, Mr. Barthelme satirizes and mimics most of the clichés of our popular culture, and, through the predicaments of his characters, makes the reader ask Why? Yet these predicaments, although bizarre, inane, and usually surrealistic, do not necessarily contain the morose connotations of most writers of the absurd. For example, in one tale the narrator is thirty-five years old, six feet tall, with the logic and reasoning of an adult. He is in the sixth grade, where Miss Mandible, his teacher, is frustrated in her desires to have an affair with him because, officially, he is a child!These imaginative stories of dark humor, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are to be interpreted on many levels, and offer refreshing and thoroughly exciting reading.
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作者 : Josann McGibbon
This songbook features 14 songs from the hit movie starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, including: Before I Fall in Love (Coco Lee) * Blue Eyes Blue (Eric Clapton) * I Love You (Martina McBride) * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2) * It Never Entered My Mind (Miles Davis) * Maneater (Hall and Oates) * Never Saw Blue like That (Shawn Colvin) * Ready to Run (Dixie Chicks) * Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)? (Billy Joel) * You're the Only One for Me (Allure) * and more.
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作者 : 尼克·霍恩比
在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他们都想到著名的礼帽大厦楼顶跳楼自杀，四人在楼顶不期而遇。他们一起度过了一个晚上，讲述各自不幸的遭遇，第二天一早各自回家，但从此形成了一个奇怪的四人小团体，开始发生各种各样有趣的事情，比如他们试图挽救马丁的婚姻，结果一团糟；他们组成读书会，专门讨论自杀的作家们，他们还计划不周地匆匆去金丝雀群岛旅行…… 这是英国当红作家尼克·霍恩比第四部长篇小说，他的小说风格充满喜剧色彩而给人以温暖。在这部首印达17万册的新作中，他娴熟地驾驭自杀这样沉重的话题，时不时令读者发出会心一笑。小说刚刚在美国上市就占据《纽约时报》小说排行榜第四名，其受欢迎程度可见一斑。新年前夜，四个生活失意的陌生人在伦敦著名的自杀圣地顶层大厦上不期而遇。马丁是个名誉臭了大街的电视节目主持人，JJ是个失败的音乐人，中年妇女莫琳除了一个植物人儿子之外一无所有，而洁丝是个四处碰壁的青春期叛逆少女。经过一个荒唐的夜晚，四人组成所谓的自杀俱乐部，试图互相帮助，走出抑郁的低谷。新的烦恼与笑料由此产生……
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作者 : 弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd- looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
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作者 : 叶芝
本书是叶芝的代表作之一，这是一部特殊的作品。之所以说它特殊，原因有二：第一，这是诗人叶芝以诗歌的笔法写出，却又并非诗集的作品。第二，这是诗人用来表达他对爱尔兰永恒的热爱的一部重要作品。实际上，这是一部叶芝饱含着诗人的激情整理出的一部优美的爱尔兰神话传说集。诗人浸淫在爱尔兰文化中多年，对于爱尔兰传说中的仙女等等魔幻力量的存在深信不疑，这种浪漫信仰给他的诗歌创作增添了特殊光彩。为了回报爱尔兰民族文化这个提供给他以无限灵感的美的母体，叶芝用诗人的笔触，记录下他喜爱的凯尔特风土人情。本书集结了或绵延数页，或寥寥几句的乡人闲谈和神话传说，风格和形式有点类似我国蒲松龄的《聊斋志异》。不过，与《聊斋》不同的是，本书更多的是强调诗人本人对于魔幻世界的思索与感激。这是一部反映了作者早期的典型创作特征的作品。它的内容包罗万象：鬼怪、仙人、幽默故事和乡间传说层出不穷；它的文体更可谓杂而不乱：时而是一段关于生命和死亡的严肃探讨，时而是一段农人放肆地讲出的荒诞不经的故事，之间穿插着叶芝的诗歌片段。全书笔法自由轻松至极，行文充满想象力，张扬一种神秘浪漫的美感以及对淳朴思想的热爱。《凯尔特的薄暮》是搜集自爱尔兰斯莱戈和戈尔韦两地的神话、传说合集，是作者在爱尔兰西北沿海村庄采风，和当地的各色人物交友聊天，并对这些谈话笔记稍加整理，加上自己的一些思考和感悟编写而成的。也可以视为一部文笔优美的散文集，其内容涉及天地神鬼，充满各种有趣的奇谈怪论，有点类似我国的《聊斋志异》，或者《阅微草堂笔记》。
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The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt(Excerpt)
作者 : 威廉·格纳齐诺
This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germanys highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.Employed by a high-end shoe manufacturer to test new products, the narrator spends his days wandering through his native city, encountering faces from his past (primarily female) and experiencing anew the many manifestations of the mystery of life. In the grand tradition of literary flaneurs, he takes note of his surroundings, from the significant to the mundane, and assembles them into a sort of mental collage that is at once self-portrait and cityscape.Most remarkable in Genazinos work is the humor with which he invests this melancholic character. Though at times he fears that he teeters on the brink of insanity, he good-naturedly pursues the strange twists of fate that land him variously behind a table at the flea market, in a newspaper office, by the banks of a flooded river, or in a friends bed. As Peter von Matt wrote in Der Spiegel, Indeed, there is hardly a subtler humorist among todays writers than Genazino.
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作者 : Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is the first in the series of children's books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and is perhaps her best-known work. The book was written for private amusement, but publication was urged by Potter's friends.The Tale of Peter Rabbit has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
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作者 : 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages — Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood Academy, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean. Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism and sinister Gothic elements.Jane Eyre is divided into 38 chapters; most editions are at least 400 pages long (although the preface and introduction on certain copies are liable to take up another 100). The original was published in three volumes — Volume One (comprising chapters one to fifteen), Volume Two (sixteen to 26) and Volume Three (27 to 38).
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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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作者 : 德希蕾·克拉里
Bernadottes new position now takes Desiree to the royal court of Sweden. Life there is very hard for the silk merchants daughter who almost married Napoleon in Marseilles. She is happier in Paris, even without her family. But Napoleon is still jealous of her husband. When he and Desiree meet, there is always trouble. And when war comes again, the two men are on opposite sides.Napoleon does at last, on the island of St Helena. He had terrible faults, said Desiree. But he was my first love--- and Im not ashamed of those days in Marseilles. She goes back to Sweden and there she is crowned: the first Queen of the royal family of Bernadotte.
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作者 : 加西亚·马尔克斯
This is one of the greatest love stories I have ever read. … It is so beautifully written that it really takes you to another place in time and will make you ask yourself—how long could you, or would you, wait for love?51 years,9 months, and 4 days, How long would you wait for the one you love?
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作者 : 菲利普·西德尼
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) is one of the most important writers of the English Ressaissance. In this book he turns his attention to the status of poetry in England.Defense of Poetry (also known as A Defence of Poesie) — Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defense is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage.
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作者 : 考麦克·麦卡锡
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats. In 2007 a film adaptation was released, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Synge And The Ireland Of His Time
作者 : 叶芝
WITH A NOTE CONCERNING A WALK THROUGH CONNEMARA WITH HIMBY JACK BUTLER YEATS
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作者 : 叶芝
Offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles--beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken, sardonic treatment of sexuality.CONTENTS:TO THE SECRET ROSE THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST OUT OF THE ROSE THE WISDOM OF THE KING THE HEART OF THE SPRING THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT, AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE.FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre, Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep Among pale eyelids, heavy with the sleep Men have named beauty. Thy great leaves enfold The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes Saw the pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise In Druid vapour and make the torches dim; Till vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him Who met Fand walking among flaming dew By a grey shore where the wind never blew, And lost the world and Emer for a kiss; And him who drove the gods out of their liss, And till a hundred moms had flowered red Feasted, and wept the barrows of his dead; And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods: And him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A woman of so shining loveliness That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress, A little stolen tress. I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die? Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?
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