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.

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.

‘Ever since the world began, men have been subject to various tricks of Fortune’ In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there – a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. This is the second edition of G. H. McWilliam’s acclaimed translation of the Decameron. In his introduction Professor McWilliam illuminates the worlds of Boccaccio and of his storytellers, showing Boccaccio as a master of vivid and exciting prose fiction.

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.

書名「續集」，是繼續寫下去的意思。自一九五二年離開上海後在海外各地發表而未收入書中的文章編成一集，名之為『續集』。 . 張愛玲在序中寫：『續集』是『繼續寫下去的意思』。因為出本書前，她寫得比較少，有人以為她擱筆了。這本書是1952年張愛玲離開上海後，在海外各地發表而未收入書 中的文章。包括〈小兒女〉、〈魂歸離恨天〉二篇劇本；〈談吃與畫餅充饑〉、〈羊毛出在羊身上〉等六篇散文，及小說〈五四遺事〉。

這小說集裡三篇近作其實都是一九五Ｏ年間寫的，不過此後屢經徹底改寫，『相見歡』與『色，戒』發表後又還添改多處。『浮花浪蕊』最後一次大改，才參用社會小說做法，題材比近代短篇小說散漫，是一個實驗。 這三個小故事都曾經使我震動，因而甘心一遍遍改寫這麼些年，甚至於想起來只想到最初獲得材料的驚喜，與改寫的歷程，一點都不覺得這其間三十年的時間過去了。愛就是不問值得不值得得。這也就是『此情可待成追憶，只是當時已惘然』了。因此結集時題名『惘然記』。

這本集子裡『談看書』，大看人種學，尤其是史前白種人在遠東的蹤跡，也就是納罕多年的結果。 . 本書出版緣由是因為唐文標教授在加州大學圖書館發現〈連環套〉、〈創世紀〉這兩篇未完成的小說與短文〈姑姑語錄〉，想徵求張愛玲同意重新發表，張愛玲並不滿意這兩篇小說，尤其覺得〈連環套〉是通 篇胡扯，讓自己嘗到『齒冷』的滋味，但盜印在即，只得搶救下兩件『破爛』。 . 本書另收錄六篇散文，其中1939年獲西風雜誌徵文名譽獎的〈天才夢〉，雖是年少作品，卻驚人的早熟獨特，實在是曠古難見的天才作家！

中篇小說。一貫張愛玲式文風，人物刻劃鮮明、情節鋪敘細膩，在輕快的故事節奏裡，透著對人生變化無常的滄桑淒涼感。 . 故事以兩個女孩的生活為主軸，兩人在中學時期認識，兩人很投緣，生活裡從此充滿相契的樂趣。 . 各自結婚後，一個到華盛頓當傳譯員，一個想帶女兒去法國生活。再次重逢，兩人話起當年的趣事和同學們的發展，再次分別後就斷了音訊。 . 2004年文壇的最大話題。 . 張愛玲從未發表過的中篇小說首度曝光，引起海內外張迷的高度關注。