Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.

《喜福会》是1989年美国四大畅销书之一，多次获奖并拍成电影。小说描写解放前夕从中国大陆移居美国的四位女性的生活波折，以及她们与美国出生的女儿之间的心理隔膜、感情冲撞、爱爱怨怨，令人感慨万千。

这部小说是以第二次世界大战期间日本占领下的东北为背景的爱情故事，内容描述了一位痴迷于围棋的十六岁高中少女与日本军官的恋情，因为这场恋情，日本军官反省自已从小被教育的军国主义的价值，而女围棋手则更认识了自己母文化下妇女的处境。男女主角的思想随着爱情的发展而成熟，然而征服野心、侵略压迫、民族仇恨却展布成一场生死棋局，从四方包围着这场恋情。围棋既是书中重要的线索，也是写作的风格。

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine,University of Kent at Canterbury 陀思妥耶夫斯基是俄国著名的批判现实主义作家。《罪与罚》是他的一部卓越的社会哲理小说，它的发表标志着他艺术风格的成熟。小说成功地反映农奴制改革后，资本主义的发展在俄国生活的各个方面，探讨了贫穷与犯罪等社会哲理问题，但小说也暴露了作者世界观的全部矛盾。小说于1866年一发表，立即引起强烈的反响，使作者获得世界声誉。 Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who,against his better instincts,is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on,we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride,of contempt for and need of others,and of terrible despair and hope of redemption:and,in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel,we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for,and the consequences of,his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment,as against the constraints of morality and human laws;and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality,as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality. Book Description Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. "Crime and Punishment", based on Dostoevsky's own experience of the justice and penal system of Tsarist Russia, is a dark tale set in the dingy streets of St Petersburg, concerning the actions of a murderer who decides to commit homicide as a matter of principle. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

Amazon.com - Sometimes only remembered for the epic motion picture and "Frankly ... I don't give a damn," Gone with the Wind was initially a compelling and entertaining novel. It was the sweeping story of tangled passions and the rare courage of a group of people in Atlanta during the time of Civil War that brought those cinematic scenes to life. The reason the movie became so popular was the strength of its characters--Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, and Ashley Wilkes--all created here by the deft hand of Margaret Mitchell, in this, her first novel.

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much...

Against the backdrop of Darwin - that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia - a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many...

在线阅读本书 Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell. Professor of English Literature. University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.

作品叙述一三四八年佛罗伦萨瘟疫流行时，十名年轻男女在一所别墅避难，他们终日欢宴，每人每天讲一个故事，十天讲了一百个故事，故名《十日谈》，其中许多故事取材于历史事件和中世纪传说。卜伽丘在《十日谈》中歌颂现实生活，赞美爱情是才智和美好情操的源泉，谴责禁欲主义，对封建贵族的堕落和天主教会的荒淫无耻作了有力的讽刺。作品采用了框形结构，把一百个故事串联起来，使全书浑然一体，作品语言精练幽默，写人状物，微妙尽致。

【駒子シリーズ】のヒロイン・入江駒子の愛読書『ななつのこ』が、素敵な絵本になりました！　本書の主人公は、ある村に住む「はやて」という男の子と、はやてが「あやめさん」と呼ぶきれいな女の人。はやてが村の出来事をあれこれ話すと、あやめさんは熱心に耳を傾け、はやてが「ふしぎでしょ？」と首を傾げたときには、「こういうことじゃないかしら」と謎解きをしてくれるのでした――。著者＆装画家の名コンビが贈る、もうひとつの『ななつのこ』。ギフトにもお奨め、オールカラー64頁。 日文版

《旅行与历史》杂志自由撰稿人浅见光彦在淡路岛的常隆寺里碰上了来此存放骨灰盒的龙满智仁，两人都是东京人，彼此交谈后熟识起来。不料一个星期以后浅见在电视上看到东京某制药公司的龙满和田口相继死于意外的消息。联想到龙满在常隆寺花费了大笔赠款以求存放骨灰盒，浅见不禁感到事件的蹊跷，为追查真相，浅见又来到了常隆寺，谁知主持告诉他存放在寺里的骨灰盒已被一个叫石森里织的女人领走，看来各方面都在为骨灰盒做文章。根据主持提供的线索，浅见光彦只身前往龙满的老家长门寺，通过在当地足尾铜矿的调查，他敏锐地感觉到龙满的死同当今日本医学界大力提倡的“脑死即死亡，以及内脏器官移植”有密切的关系。原来足尾铜矿隐藏了血迹斑斑的罪恶，战后那里关押的百多名中国劳工中的大部分人，都成了二战时期曾在中国东北731细菌部队实验室任过主任、当今主宰日本医学界的学术权威加贺教授的实验牺牲品。中国劳工的冤魂不散，骨灰盒成了控诉加贺之流的有力证据。“恶有恶报，善有善报”在浅见和警方的全力侦破下，龙满等无辜被害人的冤情最终得到了昭雪，加贺之流也被绳之以法。但是，“脑死即死亡，以及内脏器官移植”的提案仍于1991年6月在日本得到了通过……对此，作者借书中主人公浅见光彦的嘴道出了他的心声：“已经建立的法律在‘修正’的幌子下定会按当权者或相关人物的意志逐渐被改变……在狱中的加贺也许会因之而显露出他那恶魔般的窃喜。”

公司职员清野林太郎将自己反锁在汽车里，把连接排气管的软管插入窗口，自杀了。并留下两封遗书，一封只有封皮、没有内容的被称为透明的遗书。女儿清野翠、挚友西村、藤田均不相信他会自杀，透明的遗书神秘地喻示着什么……浅见光彦受委托参与到此案的调查中，却发现清野等一系列案件与政治家们有脱不掉的干系……

第十九屆「江戶川亂步獎」得獎作品 一名高中女生死於墮胎，她始終沒有說出男孩的名字，只在臨終夢囈裡說了兩聲「阿基米德」。接著，男學生吃了班上便當拍賣會買來的便當後中毒倒地；和女同事發生婚外情的青年也失蹤。這是誰在搞鬼？和阿基米德又有何關係？

八木是專門在百貨公司捉扒手的保安員，因為舊日情人的妻子被殺，而背上殺人嫌疑。為了洗刷冤屈，她決定主動出擊。同棟公寓的小光棍、熱心的偵探、可疑的窈窕女子……，誰才是兇手？這和左手又有什麼關係？

《阴阳师》是梦枕貘最负盛名的作品，以幽暗遥远的平安时代为背景，虚构了一个神秘典雅的人鬼共处世界。相传，日本平安时代，世界明暗未分，人鬼妖杂相共处。阴阳师安倍晴明，白衣飘飘，儒雅不羁；武士源博雅腰悬长刀，淳朴耿直。一对挚情好友淡漠生死，游走于阴阳两界，在谈笑之间破解桩桩离奇事件，为人鬼解忧。 《阴阳师》中的很多章节见于经史典籍，书中多数鬼怪生前都是著名的历史人物，阅读时，可从中找到许多著名人物生前的若干疑团。

The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji , the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature. In The Tale of Murasaki , Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this timeless poet–a lonely girl who becomes such a compelling storyteller that she is invited to regale the empress with her tales. The Tale of Murasaki is the story of an enchanting time and an exotic place. Whether writing about mystical rice fields in the rainy mountains or the politics and intrigue of the royal court, Dalby breathes astonishing life into ancient Japan.

收有《泪壶》、《结婚戒指》、《后遗症》、《春别》、《再见，再见》五部短篇小说。