When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, of loving deception and lasting devotion, and of the intimate workings of the human heart.

Tracing a quest that begins in the halls of Cambridge University, descends to the forbidden spaces of an isolated asylum, and moves on to the sunbaked shores of the south of France, Hallucinating Foucault brings to life a love affair like no other. "The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated, " Duncker writes. "It cannot be proven to exist. Yet we often talk with extraordinary intensity about a writer we've discovered, loved, read, and re-read. Reading is an eerie, alien, intimate experience. We know that there is someone on the other side of writing. They are sometimes close, terrifyingly present. We listen hard." As the book builds toward its startling conclusion, Duncker probes and unravels the intriguing connections between Paul Michel - an extraordinary writer who is sexually irresistible - and the philosopher Michel Foucault, who claimed he wrote his brilliant texts to attract boys. A riveting mystery as well as a meditation on the gender-transcending nature of love, Hallucinating Foucault is an unforgettable novel that goes to the very heart of the creative act.

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.

Craiglockhart War Hospital， Scotland， 1917， where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen， as well as mute Billy Prior， who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. "Regeneration" is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the "Regeneration" trilogy.

18世纪英国乡间班纳特家有五个女儿，班纳特太太整天焦躁不已，最大的心愿就是将女儿们一个个嫁出去。一日年青富家子宾利先生搬进城内的消息传来，令班纳特太太兴奋不已，希望大女儿简能获取宾利先生青睐。舞会上宾利果然看上了最漂亮的大小姐。而宾利的老友达西（柯林·菲尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）却天性傲慢，直言难与平民交往，更不屑与老二伊丽莎白跳舞（詹妮弗·艾莉 Jennifer Ehle 饰）。可不久达西对她活泼可爱的举止产生了好感。达西虽然欣赏伊丽莎白，却无法忍受她母亲及妹妹们粗俗无礼的举止，劝说宾利放弃娶简。宾格来和简因为误会，关系危在旦夕，伊丽莎白也因为这件事迁怒于达西。最终班纳特能否顺利嫁出五个女儿，宾格来与简、达西与伊丽莎白会不会从迷失中走来，缔结幸福良缘？

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

美少年道连·葛雷面对好友霍尔沃德为他画好的肖像，说：“如果我能够永葆青春，而让这幅画像去变老……我愿拿我的灵魂换青春！”这一荒唐的愿望构成了王尔德唯一长篇小说《道连·葛雷的画像》的情节基础。不料此言一出，竟一语成谶。环境影响和追求享乐的结果，导致葛雷在自我放纵的泥淖中越陷越深直至彻底毁灭。本书还收入了王尔德的两部中篇名作，基本囊括了王尔德的小说精华。

《温夫人的扇子》是王尔德的首本喜剧，所探讨的主题是上流社会的定义，说得具体一点，便是淑女与荡妇之别，王尔德的答案是：难以区别。要做淑女或荡妇，往往取决于一念之差。未经考验的淑女，也许就是潜在荡妇。从口相传的荡妇，却未必是真正的荡妇。换一句话说，天真的女人不一定好，世故的女人也不一定坏。同时，未经民故的女人习于顺境，反而苛以待人，而饱经世故的女人深谙逆境，反而宽以处世。在《温夫人的扇子》里，母女两人都陷入了这种“道德暧昧之境”。 《新世纪万有文库》是辽宁教育出版社鼎力推出的重点图书，全书着眼于文化的普及和传播，按常备、实用、耐读、易存的原则，在海内外各学科专家的指导下，将中外名著的珍善版本，精选收入文库，从1996年起到2005年的十年中，计划每年出书百种，积累至千册，意图使整个文库能基本反映出人类文化发展的概貌，为二十一世纪的现代人选定一个家庭藏书的基本书目。 传统文化书系：收录中国传统文化的经典作品，经版本专家鉴定校勘后，排成简体字横排本。 近世文化书系：收录民国时期学术大家的作品为重点的近现代人文成果，将一些珍贵的广为人知但市面难见的或久已散失的著作、收集、整理后，排成简体字。 外国文化书系：收录中国以外的世界人文宝库中的精品，以研究介绍文化为主题，笔意轻松隽永，风格清新活泼，具有可读性，属于“大作家的小作品”。 贯穿全书始终宗旨就是：为渴求知识的读者提供长期可读可用的图书，以证明生存在现代社会中阅读活动的必要，进而倡导社会上读书风气的形成，为广大爱书人创造坐拥书城的境界。

Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel. 'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'

巴恩斯最有野心、最受关注的作品！ 十篇故事，半篇随笔 写尽人类历史的可笑与失落 上次世界末日，一只木蠹混进挪亚的方舟中。它目睹挪亚的所作所为和书中记载大相径庭。方舟在人类历史上反复重现，它或是遭劫游船，或是泰坦尼克，或是核恐慌中的海上孤舟……这个偷渡客也并未离去，它冷眼看着历史如何被歪曲，歪曲的又如何成为“真实”历史；它附身于巴恩斯的妙笔，教他以篇篇奇文拼贴出一部看似荒诞，但振聋发聩的世界史。

★全新译本，专文导读 ★“最会讲故事的作家”“整个英语世界最畅销的作家之一”毛姆长篇代表作 ★毛姆唯一一部以自己的真名命名叙事者的长篇小说，美国出版首月狂销50万册 ★两度被改编成电影，获得奥斯卡最佳影片等多项提名，勇夺最佳女配角奖 ★一本我们在20岁，30岁，40岁都 应 该用心去读的书 ------------------------------- 我要走遍世上每一条路， 经历深沉的悲伤、莫名的哀愁、无尽的喜悦， 只求放手一搏、体验人生，追求灵魂中的星辰。 ------------------------------- “人生如果不想随波逐流，就等于是场豪赌，失败的人不胜枚举，成功的人寥寥无几。” ------------------------------- “我并不怕犯错，搞不好会在其中一条冤枉路上，找到人生的目标。” ------------------------------- “你不禁会想问自己，活着到底是为了什么，人生究竟有没有意义，还是只能可悲地任凭命运摆布？” ------------------------------- 本书是毛姆四大长篇小说代表作中最后一部，小说初稿完成后，他说：“写这本书带给我极大的乐趣。我才不管其他人觉得这本书是好是坏。我终于可以一吐为快，对我而言，这才是最重要的。”《刀锋》出版首月，就在美国狂销五十万册，两度被改编电影，入围奥斯卡最佳影片等多项提名，并勇夺最佳女配角奖。 本书背景设于两次世界大战期间（1919年至20世纪40年代），小说主人公拉里一战时服役于空军，曾在浩瀚无垠的天空中高飞，想要“远远超越世俗的权力和荣誉”，战友之死让他惊觉生命之无奈与不可超越。退伍后，拉里不上大学，不结婚，也不愿就业，抛下亲友，到欧洲游历，最后远赴印度，在一位象神大师的静修院受到启发，顿悟了生命的真义。 本书是毛姆唯一以自己真名作为叙事者的长篇小说。书中人物虽都“另取其名”，内容却“毫无虚构”，都是源自毛姆与友人的亲身经历。

A new volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. In the same distinctive format as The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye , this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion — the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. A woman walks away from her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world; a schoolgirl draws a blood-filled picture of the biblical heroine Jael; a swimming pool reveals a beauteous monster in its depths. The settings of Elementals range from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, from chalk-strewn classrooms to herb-scented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds. A marvelous present for all A. S. Byatt fans, this magical collection will also serve as a perfect introduction to one of our finest contemporary writers.

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's "Howards End" explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge. 'Only connect...' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony. David Lodge's introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster's reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as 'my best novel'. This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, "Where Angels Fear To Tread" appeared in 1905. "The Longest Journey" appeared in 1907, followed by "A Room With A View" (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. "Howards End" (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. "Maurice" was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed "Howard's End", you might like Forster's "A Room with a View", also available in "Penguin Classics".

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.

摩尔•弗兰德斯是一个美貌的女子，出生于新门监狱。在她未出生的时候，她的母亲便利用她逃脱了绞刑的罪罚。她在一个大户人家的帮助下逐渐成长，却被这家的大少爷诱骗玷污。后来她和这家的二少爷结婚，第一次走上乱伦之路。再后来她逐渐摸清当时“婚姻卖淫”的实情，利用自己的美貌得到一次次生存的机会；当青春年华逝去，她沦落为窃贼。当她被捕，再次回到自己出生的地方——新门监狱，她的一生也形成一个充满讽刺的轮回。

本书是一部研究小说魔力的神奇之作——分析其主要元素，颂扬其持久动力。书中对我们这个时代最显著、最时髦的批判深入到了讲故事时的机械设定，由此提出一些基本的问题：当我们说”认识”某个虚构的人物时，这意味着什么？生动的细节由什么构成？何谓成功的隐喻？现实主义是现实的吗？为什么有些文学惯例变得过时，而另一些却保持活力？ 从荷马到《给小鸭子让路》，从圣经到约翰·勒卡雷，詹姆斯·伍德广泛取材。本书既是一部虚构手法的研究佳作，也是一部小说的另类史。它幽默、深刻，无论你是作者还是读者，甚或是对此书该兴趣的路人甲，它都将对你有所启迪！

故事设置在微妙的六十年代初，嬉皮士刚开始学习放荡，传统派依然坚挺，“根本不可能对性事困扰说长道短的年代”尚未落幕。爱德华和弗洛伦斯的蜜月晚餐忐忑、紧张、充满误解。初夜的那场爱，终是没有做成。一整本细腻如丝的词句囊括了性和爱，却分裂在各自的肉体和内心，在这本书的世界里，他 和她永远无法合二为一。 英国“国民作家”麦克尤恩通过性爱观念这个独特视角回顾青葱岁月的温情小品，细腻温婉却劲道十足，牵惹情思又回味悠长。 ‘On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece’ KARL MILLER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘A fine book, homing in with devastating precision on a kind of Englishness which McEwan understands better than any other living writer, the Englishness of deceit, evasion, repression and regret’ JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

《苔丝》是作者的代表作。女主人公苔丝生于一个贫苦小贩庭，父母要她到一个富老太婆家去攀亲戚，结果她被少爷亚诱奸，后来她与牧师的儿子克莱尔恋并订婚，在新婚夜她把昔日的不幸向丈夫坦白，却没能得到原谅，两人分居丈夫去了巴西，几年后，丝再次与亚历克相遇，后者纠缠她，这时候她因家境窘迫得不与仇人同居，不久克莱尔从国外回来，向妻子表示悔恨自己以往的冷酷无情，在这种情况下苔丝痛苦地觉得是亚历克·德伯使她第二次失去安吉尔便愤怒地将他杀死。最后她被捕并被处以绞刑。

《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的代表作，是一部描写爱情与婚姻的经典小说。作品以男女主人公达西和伊丽莎白由于傲慢和偏见而产生的爱情纠葛为线索，共写了四起姻缘：伊丽莎白与达西、简与宾利、莉迪亚与威克姆、夏洛蒂与柯林斯。伊丽莎白、简和莉迪亚是贝内特家五个女儿中的三个姐妹，而夏洛蒂则是她们的邻居，也是伊丽莎白的朋友。男主人公达西与宾利是好友，且与威克姆一起长大，而柯林斯则是贝内特家的远房亲戚。 贝内特夫妇五个女儿待字闺中，没有子嗣，依照当时法律，他们死后家产须由远房内侄柯林斯继承，因此把五个女儿嫁到有钱人家，成了贝内特太太最大的心愿。宾利，一位未婚富家子弟，租赁了贝内特家附近的内瑟菲尔德庄园，成为众人注目的焦点和谈论的话题。不久，宾利就与美丽贤淑的大小姐简相爱了。宾利的朋友达西对聪明直率的二小姐伊丽莎白颇有好感，却因在一次舞会上出言不逊使伊丽莎白对他心存偏见。品行不端的威克姆告诉伊丽莎白，他是达西庄园已故总管的儿子，与达西一起长大，达西的父亲先前许诺给他的教职，被达西无端剥夺了。而达西则因为伊丽莎白的母亲及其他妹妹的缘故，劝说宾利中止与简的关系，结果四人不欢而散。威克姆对达西的诋毁，以及达西的劝说对简造成的伤害进一步加深了伊丽莎白对达西的偏见。 柯林斯为心安理得地继承财产，决定从贝内特家五个漂亮的女儿之中挑选一个“妻子”，于是向伊丽莎白求婚。遭到拒绝后，他马上转向尚未婚配急于找到“归宿”的夏洛蒂小姐，竟然得到应允。伊丽莎白应邀到新婚的柯林斯和夏洛蒂夫妇家中做客，不期遇见前来探望凯瑟琳夫人的达西。达西为伊丽莎白所倾倒，向她求婚，但因其言辞的傲慢，遭到伊丽莎白的愤然拒绝。同时，伊丽莎白指责达西对威克姆冷酷无情，更不应该破坏宾利同简的爱情。事后达西写信为自己申辩，令伊丽莎白的偏见逐渐消除。 伊丽莎白随舅父舅妈出游时经过达西的庄园，以为达西不在，进去参观，不料达西突然归来，伊丽莎白感到十分窘迫。然而，达西丝毫没有以往的傲慢，非常热情地接待了他们。此时，伊丽莎白突然接到家信，得知威克姆带着妹妹莉迪亚私奔了！匆忙回家后，全家一筹莫展，不料达西暗访到两人的行踪，出资促成他们的婚事并安排了他们的生活，为贝内特一家保全了尊严。此事使伊丽莎白与达西尽释前嫌，宾利也和简重修旧好，最后有情人终成眷属。