What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.

Ian McEwan 07年的新书On Chesil Beach，使他再度入围英国布克奖。这本只有二百页的小书，就规模而言，更似novella（中篇小说），McEwan 把语言的细腻玩出了一种喜剧的幽默，别具谐趣。 英国诗人Philip Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis开头第一段这么写道： Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP. On Chesil Beach的故事便是发生在性解禁的前一年1962年的七月，两个二十二岁的年轻人，天资不凡的小提琴手Florence与踌躇满志的历史系学生Edward，小说开门见山第一句话描写他们，“青春、受过良好的教育、都还是处子之身”，新婚之夜，两人在Chesil海滨酒店的蜜月套房，发生了一场不可思议的性战。Edward对初夜的兴奋期待，紧张的害怕自己表现不好，来得太快，相反，同样紧张不安的Florence，明知这样一种身体关系是夫妻间不可避免的正常之事，却仍无法克服对此的厌恶与排斥，灵与肉的交战，纠缠着Florence挣扎的内心，也像一块不祥的乌云，笼罩着她与Edward甜蜜浪漫的爱情。 Florence与Edward的爱情，将如何化为精神与肉体的（被迫）结合，McEwan如一位希区柯克式的悬念大师，吊足读者的胃口。小说前四分之三的笔墨集中在新婚初夜的几个小时里，对Florence和Edwarn说不出口的心理交战、及所表现出的身体悸动，描画细致得好像电影的慢动作镜头，不厌其烦中越见张力，而在最后不到四分之一的结尾，却以几年、十年的大跨度，流水般的概述Edward此后的一生，这般两极化的剪辑速度，读完全书，有一种预感，这个小说其实很适合改编成电影。

《恶棍列传》是博尔赫斯小说集，含《恶棍列传》《布罗迪报告》两个小集子，风格鲜明，有许多博尔赫斯心目中的东方元素。读来真像美国著名作家哈罗德•布鲁姆说的：“会激活你的文学意识，在这种文学意识中，他比任何人都走得更深。”

所收作品包括：心狠手辣的解放者莫雷尔、作恶多端的蒙克·伊斯曼、无礼的掌礼官上野介、死亡与指南针、另一次死亡、阿莱夫等。

这是一部短篇小说集，除《一个陌生女人的来信》，亦按时间顺序收录了《火烧火燎的秘密》、《马来狂人》等名篇，作者的创作历程一目了然。 《一个陌生女人的来信》讲述一个刻骨铭心的爱情故事，一个女子暗恋男主人公18年，直至临死才决定向他告白。

本书是一部技巧高度纯熟的小长篇，“恐怖伊恩”时期的代表作，着力探索人性欲望的无限可能，讲述了一个关于美的追求者为了满足自己的欲望如何将美的对象摧残致死的故事。一对如胶似漆却又貌合神离的情人正在度假。从踏进这座繁华却又怪诞的旅游城市的第一天起，他们就一直被跟踪、偷拍。暗处的这双眼睛如影随形，诱惑着这对情人找寻新鲜刺激、寻求所谓陌生人的慰藉，并最终使他们一心一意地投身于一个处心积虑为其设下的情欲与死亡的陷阱中。小说蕴含着无数隐喻，与众多经典文本高度互文，充满了对托马斯·曼《死于威尼斯》、E·M·福斯特《看得见风景的房间》等意味深长的正引或戏仿，被誉为麦克尤恩的两部“小型杰作”之一。

《一九八四》（1949）是奥威尔的传世之作，堪称世界文坛最著名的反乌托邦、反极权的政治讽喻小说。他在小说中创造的“老大哥”、“双重思想”、“新话”等词汇都已收入权威的英语词典，甚至由他的姓衍生出“奥威尔式”（Orwellian）、“奥威尔主义”（Orwellism）这样的通用词汇，不断出现在报道国际新闻的记者笔下，足见其作品在英语国家影响之深远。 “多一个人看奥威尔，就多了一份自由的保障，”有论家如是说。

在线阅读本书 Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese literature, this five-part story charts the changing fortunes of the Jia family. It sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that karma determines the shape of our lives.

《译林名著精选•老人与海(插图本)》出版于1952年，并因此获得诺贝尔文学奖。作品塑造了一个在失败和挫折面前不低头、不气馁、坚忍奋斗的老渔夫形象，表达了“人可以被毁灭，但却不能被打败”的精神。迄今为止，《老人与海》出版已经50余年了，但这部小说的魅力却经久不衰，在世界各国仍旧有大量的读者，它是20世纪美国文学的经典作品。同样，《老人与海》在中国也有着巨大的影响，不同时期的不同读者都以自己的方式阅读与接受着海明威的《老人与海》。

曼楨和世鈞在朋友的聚會中偶然相識，兩個人很自然的走在一起彼此非常篤定，以為就這樣子一生一世，但是造化弄人，兩人成了彼此心中最大的遺憾。 曼楨和世鈞是在一次朋友的聚會中偶然相識，然後兩個人很自然的走在一起了。他們彼此非常篤定，以為就這樣子一生一世。 但是造化弄人，曼楨被曾為舞女的姊姊設計，被姊夫玷污，又被軟禁，世鈞遍尋不著，加上家人逼著趕快成親，兩人就此失去音訊。世事恍惚，兩人再見，已是人事全非，各自有了牽絆，雖然彼此仍是心中最大的遺憾，然而正如曼楨所說，他們回不去了。

沉香屑---第一炉香 沉香屑---第二炉香 茉莉香片 心经 封锁 琉璃瓦 年轻的时候 花凋 中国的日夜

一对现实庸俗的男女，在战争的兵荒马乱之中被命运掷骰子般地掷到了一起，于“一刹那”体会到了“一对平凡的夫妻”之间的“一点真心”⋯⋯张爱玲是作为中国现代文学史上的一位杰出作家，而不是作为一个怪人、异人而存在的。也许她将不仅仅属于现代文学史。遥想几十年、几百年后，她会像她欣赏的李清照一样，在整个中国文学史上占据一个稳定的位置也说不定，而我们知道，那时候今天为我们所熟知的许多现代作家肯定都将被忽略不计了。

小说以法国波旁王朝和七月王朝两大时期为背景，描写了一个报恩复仇的故事。法老号大副唐泰斯受船长的临终嘱托，为拿破仑送了一封信，受到两个对他嫉妒的小人的陷害，被打入死牢，狱友法里亚神甫向他传授了各种知识，还在临终前把一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。他设法越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富。从此他化名为基督山伯爵，经过精心策划，报答了他的恩人，惩罚了三个一心想置他于死地的仇人。

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books—with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.—by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up—or down, or all turned round—as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

在线阅读本书 "The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "The Dreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It continues the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldly elements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence and corruption, his karmic journey unfolds. Like a sleepwalker through life, Bao-yu is finally awakened by a vision, which reveals to him that life itself is merely a dream, 'as moonlight mirrored in the water'. 注：该书有2个封面内容完全一致，货品随机发送

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis 'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'. Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.

《百年孤独》是魔幻现实主义文学的代表作，描写了布恩迪亚家族七代人的传奇故事，以及加勒比海沿岸小镇马孔多的百年兴衰，反映了拉丁美洲一个世纪以来风云变幻的历史。作品融入神话传说、民间故事、宗教典故等神秘因素，巧妙地糅合了现实与虚幻，展现出一个瑰丽的想象世界，成为20世纪最重要的经典文学巨著之一。1982年加西亚•马尔克斯获得诺贝尔文学奖，奠定世界级文学大师的地位，很大程度上乃是凭借《百年孤独》的巨大影响。

私生女玛丽雅姆在父亲的宅院门口苦苦守候，回到家却看到因绝望而上吊自杀的母亲。那天是她十五岁的生日，而童年嘎然而止。玛丽雅姆随后由父亲安排远嫁喀布尔四十多岁的鞋匠拉希德，几经流产，终因无法生子而长期生活在家暴阴影之下。 十八年后，少女莱拉的父母死于战火，青梅竹马的恋人也在战乱中失踪，举目无亲的莱拉别无选择，被迫嫁给拉希德。两名阿富汗女性各自带着属于不同时代的悲惨回忆，共同经受着战乱、贫困与家庭暴力的重压，心底潜藏着的悲苦与忍耐相互交织，让她们曾经水火不容，又让她们缔结情谊，如母女般相濡以沫。然而，多年的骗局终有被揭穿的一天…… 她们将做出如何的选择？她们的命运又将何去何从？ 关于不可宽恕的时代，不可能的友谊以及不可毁灭的爱。《灿烂千阳》再次以阿富汗战乱为背景，时空跨越三十年，用细腻感人的笔触描绘了阿富汗旧家族制度下苦苦挣扎的妇女，她们所怀抱的希望、爱情、梦想与所有的失落。