小说列表
阿瑟·柯南·道尔
“一八九四年的春天,整个伦敦对可敬的罗纳德·艾德尔十分不寻常而神秘的谋杀事件极其关切,上流社会的人们更因此事丧胆。一般大众已由警方的侦查结果得知 罪案的特点,但是在当时仍有许多内容事实隐而不宣,因为这案子的起诉理由十分有力,因此就没有必要把所有的事实分布出来。一直到十年后的今天,我才被允许 将整串事情的一些重要环节说出来。罪案的本身已经够令人感兴趣的了,但对我而言,这与随之发生的不可思议的事情比较起来,实在不算什么。这些随后发生的事 比我一生中任何奇异的经历都要使我震惊。就算是现在,经过了那么久的时间,我一想到这些事,仍使我震颤不已,也使我再一次地由心底涌起欢愉、惊叹与难以置 信之感,而完全掩盖了我的理智。那些偶尔对我提到对于一位十分卓越的人物的思想及行动兴趣的人们,我得说,请不要责怪我不与他们分享我所知道的事情,因为 如果不是这个人亲口绝对禁止我说出来,我会把将这些事公布出来视为我的第一要务。而这项禁令一直到上个月三日才撤销。”
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列夫·托尔斯泰
《安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄国著名作家列夫·托尔斯泰的代表作品。本书通过女主人公安娜的追求爱情悲剧,和列文在农村面临危机而进行的改革与探索这两条线索,描绘了俄国从莫斯科到外省乡村广阔而丰富多彩的图景,先后描写了150多个人物,是一部社会百科全书式的作品。
贵族妇女安娜追求爱情幸福,却在卡列宁的虚伪、渥伦斯基的冷漠和自私面前碰得头破血流,最终落得卧轨自杀、陈尸车站的下场。庄园主莱温反对土地私有制,抵制资本主义制度,同情贫苦农民,却又无法摆脱贵族习气而陷入无法解脱的矛盾之中。矛盾的时期、矛盾的制度、矛盾的人物、矛盾的心理,使全书在矛盾的漩涡中颠簸。这部小说是新旧交替时期紧张惶恐的俄国社会的写照。
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山姆·沃尔顿
几十年来,沃尔玛公司在沃尔顿家族的经营下蒸蒸日上,其连锁店已达4150家,遍布全球。2001年度公司收入达2189亿美元,超越美国石油巨头埃克森公司,跃升“全球500强”第一位。这的确是一个非凡的奇迹,因为在1995年之前,世界500强里根本没有服务业公司的影子。而据英美媒体公布的2001 年全球大富豪排行榜,经营沃尔玛公司的沃尔顿家族以超出650亿美元的身价名列全球富豪的榜首。
像许多美国著名的企业家一样,沃尔玛公司创始人萨姆·活尔顿是白手起家的典范。本书以独特的生动笔触介绍了沃尔玛百华公司创始人萨姆·沃尔顿传奇的一生。萨姆·沃尔顿出身贫寒之家,在他求学期间,学费与生活费用大部分全靠自己打工筹措。1945年退伍后,他从小市镇本顿维尔经营零售业开始,展开其创业生涯。经过几十年锲而不舍的奋斗,他终于建立起全球最大的零售业王国——沃尔玛百货公司。萨姆·沃尔顿被1985年10月出版的《福布斯》杂志列为全美第一富豪。
那么,在这40年的时间内,沃尔顿家族从美国经济并不发达的阿肯色州小城镇本顿维尔的一家廉价商店发展成销售量最高居全球首位的零售帝国,究竟是靠怎样的生意经获得如此成功的?
一个重要因素是利用创新,牢牢把握生产率优势。沃尔玛的许多创新(如条形码、无线扫描枪、计算机跟踪存货等),不论大小,如今均已成为行业标准。
沃尔玛公司成功的另一个重要因素是顾客至上的服务原则。“要做得比顾客所期望的更好”,这是萨姆·沃尔顿总结的沃尔玛十大经营规则之一。这或许正是沃尔玛能在今天赢得全世界客户信赖的奥秘所在。
沃尔玛公司以人为本的管理理念,以及由此形成的强大凝聚力也是其成功的保障之一。在公司的用语中,员工不被称为员工,而被称为合伙人。公司给予员工分离企业经营信息的权利和共同承担企业经营的责任。
如今,沃尔玛公司这一全球零售业的超级巨人已经在中国扎根落户,对于我国零售业,乃至其他行业来说,这既是一个重大的挑战,也更是一个难得的学习机遇。
本书叙述生动,内容动人,尤其是萨姆·沃尔顿的创业精神和沃尔玛的经营经验和管理方法(特点是十大经营规则)值得广大企业领导人借鉴。
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未知作者
《挪威的森林》是日本作家村上春树于1987年所著的一部长篇爱情小说。故事讲述主角纠缠在情绪不稳定且患有精神疾病的直子和开朗活泼的小林绿子之间,展开了自我成长的旅程。自本书在日本问世,截止2012年在日本共销出1500余万册。
渡边的第一个恋人直子原是他高中要好同学木月的女友,但后来木月自杀了,直子一人生活着。一年后,渡边同直子巧遇开始了交往,此时的直子已变得娴静腼腆,眸子里不时掠过一丝阴翳。直子20岁生日的晚上两人发生了性关系,不料第二天直子便不知去向。几个月后直子来信说她住进一家远在深山里的精神疗养院。渡边前去探望时发现直子开始带有成熟女性的丰腴与娇美,还认识了和直子同一宿舍的玲子,在离开前渡边表示永远等待直子。
在一家小餐馆渡边结识了绿子,因为绿子问他借了《戏剧史II》的课堂笔记,以后就渐渐熟络。当绿子的父亲去世后,渡边开始与低年级的绿子交往。绿子同内向的直子截然相反,显得十分清纯活泼。
这期间,渡边内心十分苦闷彷徨。一方面念念不忘直子缠绵的病情与柔情,一方面又难以抗拒绿子大胆的表白和迷人的活力。不久传来直子自杀的噩耗,渡边失魂落魄地四处徒步旅行。最后,在直子同房病友玲子的鼓励下,开始摸索此后的人生。
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Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch, written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers.The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, appeared on bookshelves in 1995, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the trilogy also appeared prominently on the List.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?"Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in recent interview how does he ‘open up’ to God these days, Neale argued “I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.”
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斯蒂芬妮·梅耶
The vampire Victoria (James' mate from Twilight) has created an army of "newborn" vampires to battle the Cullen family and murder Bella for revenge. Meanwhile, Bella is compelled to choose between her relationship with Edward and her friendship with Jacob. Edward's vampire family and Jacob's werewolf pack join forces to successfully destroy Victoria and her vampire army. In the end, Bella chooses Edward's love over Jacob's and agrees to marry him.
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斯蒂芬妮·梅耶
Bella and Edward are married, but their honeymoon is cut short when Bella discovers that she is pregnant. Her pregnancy progresses rapidly, severely weakening her. She nearly dies giving birth to her and Edward's half-vampire-half-human daughter, Renesmee, but Edward injects Bella with his venom to save her life and turns her into a vampire. A vampire from another coven sees Renesmee and mistakes her for an "immortal child". She informs the Volturi, as the existence of such beings violates vampire law. The Cullens gather vampire witnesses who can verify that Renesmee is not an immortal child. After an intense confrontation, the Cullens and their witnesses convince the Volturi that the child poses no danger to vampires or their secret, and they are left in peace by the Volturi.
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简·奥斯汀
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818).
Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805.
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