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一个刚刚离婚、整天酗酒的伦敦女人蕾切尔（Rachel），她每天早上坐火车都会经过一对夫妻的房子，那对夫妻看上去十分完美，直到有一天蕾切尔发现妻子不见了，蕾切尔怀疑她被人害了，于是开始沉迷于对此事的调查。

一段令人心碎、惴惴不安的爱情故事，勾勒出一幅阐明人性的脆弱与希望、寻找乡关何处的宿命风景，而在平凡寻常文字间，呈现惊人真相的悬疑推理画面…… 海尔森表面上看来是一所迷人的英国寄宿学校，遗世而独立。学生皆能受到良好的照护与协助，并且在艺术与文学方面训练有素，完全符合这个世界对于他们的期望。但是，奇怪的是，他们从未学习任何有关外面世界的事物，对于外界也少有接触。 在海尔森的校区内，卡西从女童成长为一名年轻女性，然而却要到了她和鲁思、汤米两位朋友离开学校这个安全国度以后，才真正明了学校的全部真相，而且逐渐明白记忆中无瑕的成长过程，处处皆是无法追寻的惶惑与骇人的问号；他们的寿命将会随着“器官捐献”而慢慢步入死亡…… 本书不但承袭了石黑一雄一贯的典雅文风，却也尖锐的阐明人性的脆弱与希望，是一部巧妙融合了推理、悬疑、科幻与爱情元素的杰作。

《第二十二条军规》是一部严肃的、讽刺性极强的小说。通过这部小说，约瑟夫·海勒将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前。这个社会处于一种有组织的混乱、一种制度化了的疯狂之中，这个社会的一切只服从“第二十二条军规”的荒诞逻辑。这样一种病态的、荒诞的社会只有海勒的想象力才能够包容它，只有“黑色幽默”这样的创作手法才能够较好地表现它。通过“第二十二条军规”这个象征，读者也可以看到战争、美国社会及其官僚机构的荒诞、疯狂和不可理喻。由于这部小说揭示了美国社会真实的一面，因此它不仅在西方社会里具有普遍的意义并被译成十多种文字，而且对于我们中国读者认识、了解当代美国社会以及由这个社会造就的一代没有理想、没有信仰、没有人生目标的美国人，无疑具有极高的价值。这部小说的主要情节非常简单：第二次世界大战末，在意大利厄尔巴岛以南八英里的地中海的一个美国空军基地——皮亚诺萨小岛上，轰炸手约塞连上尉像只惊弓之鸟，在一片混乱、荒谬与恐怖中，置一切权威、信条于不顾，为保存自己的性命而进行着几近疯狂的努力。在这个岛上，他生活的唯一目的就是逃避作战飞行。于是，他一次又一次地装病住进医院，因为他发现唯有这里才是最好的藏身之地。最后，终于开了小差，逃到了瑞典。在本书中，海勒借虚构的皮亚诺萨小岛作为舞台，以第二次世界大战期间美军某飞行大队里发生的一系列事件为内容，将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前，让人们能够看清楚在这个疯狂的世界里，人是如何变得“全疯了”的。　　　　 Catch-22 is like no other novel It is one of the funniest books ever written,a key-stone work in Americal literature,and even added a new term to the dictionary. 　　 At the heart of Cathc-22 resides the incomparable malingering bombardier,Yos sarinal a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin form the horrible chances of war.His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him.His problem is Colonel Cathcart,who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself form the perilous missions that he is committed to flying,he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade,the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title:a man is considered insane of he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions,but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.

《伊索寓言》原书名为《埃索波斯故事集成》，是古希腊民间流传的讽喻故事，经后人加工，成为现在流传的《伊索寓言》。《伊索寓言》是一部世界上最早的寓言故事集。同时，《伊索寓言》是世界文学史上流传最广的寓言故事之一。

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.  

Poses the author: Will the world ever wake to the true character of these four-legged impostors and realize that instead of being disinterested and sincere most family pets are consummate hypocrites?

英国作家约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金创作的长篇小说，1937年首次出版。该书不仅惊险有加，充满童真童趣，而且投射了新的时代精神和作者独到的思考。2012年，该书被改编成同名电影系列。内容简介：一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人比尔博·巴金斯，他毫无野心。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。“越过冰冷而又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年”吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博硬拽进冒险远行的队伍。他们密谋突袭邪恶巨龙斯毛格的洞窟，夺回属于自己的千年宝藏。在这趟“意外之旅”之中，比尔博这个与世无争的霍比特人，却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。