1984 film directed by Juliusz Machulski

The Poisoned Embrace is a provocative investigation into the history of sexual pessimism as it has evolved in Western theology throughout the ages. Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as sexual pessimism. This aversion to the carnal, and its consequent elevation of the virginal and the chaste, springs not from Christianity, but from Gnosticism. Osborne examines the art, mythologies, and traditions of Christendom, and distinguishes thematic archetypes: the Virgin, the Witch, the Leper, the Noble Savage, the Jew, the Oriental, the Androgyne, and Don Juan. He traces our now-glorified ideal of sexual passion back to the Troubadours and Northern Mystics, and explores how the Passion of the Cross relates the ideas of sublime passion and therapeutic energy.

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

2018 film by Boaz Yakin

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis. ----"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone." ----This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editons of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

恰克．帕拉尼克最驚悚的原點 《隱形怪物》是鳥。我的臉被鳥吃掉了。從那天起，我從眾人矚目的美麗焦點淪為一隻隱形怪物！於是，我展開了一場「重生」之旅那些讓我淪為怪物的朋友們，請期待我的復仇吧！ 《鬥陣俱樂部》作者恰克‧帕拉尼克　讓出版社嚇到不敢出版的經典名作！ Facebook、Amazon網路書店、anobi網路書櫃 超過5000篇評論說讚！ 是鳥。我的臉被鳥吃掉了。 我駕駛在高速公路上。 有人用三十式步槍朝我射出子彈。 子彈撕裂我的下巴骨頭。 我到了醫院。我沒有死。 他們沒辦法把我的下巴裝回去，因為海鷗把它吃掉了。 我只能吃嬰兒食品。 我沒辦法說話。 我失去了工作。我沒有家。 我的未婚夫把我甩了。 沒有人願意看我。 我的衣服全被我最要好的朋友毀了。 有個男孩。 有個男孩在超級市場說我是怪物…… 身為時裝模特兒的女主角幾乎擁有一切－－英俊的男友、成功的事業，以及忠實的朋友－－然而在一場高速公路「意外」中，她遭到毀容並失去說話能力，從眾人矚目的美麗焦點淪為一隻隱形怪物，醜惡到無人願意承認她的存在。就在此時，布蘭蒂．亞歷山大進入了她的生活。這位超級女王教導她捨棄過去的自己，拋棄恐懼，展開一段瘋狂的「重生」之旅…… ◎聯合推薦 超人氣熱血搞怪團體／CIRCUS 「絕命派對」新銳鬼才導演／柯孟融

◎本書榮獲 美國雨果獎（Hugo Awards）最佳長篇小說獎 美國星雲獎（Nebula Awards）最佳長篇小說獎 永恆的性別與科幻文學經典 當代科幻小說在主流文學界奠定地位的重要代表作之一 一年到頭氣候均為嚴寒的冬星上，居民的外貌酷似地球人，卻有個重大差異：他們平日是中性，只在情慾勃發期時身體會變化出性別，具備性魅力以尋找性伴侶；一旦情慾期結束，又回復成無性的身體狀態。 星際聯盟男性使者真力．艾隻身來到冬星，自此踏入同體雙性的異文化世界。他一面研究此地社會文化，一面身負大任，希望說服國王同意加入聯盟，因而捲入詭譎的政治衝突。面對奇特的生理差異和複雜的社交文化，在信任與背叛之間，他該如何穿越內心的冰原？ 光明是黑暗的左手， 黑暗是光明的右手。 二合為一，生命與死亡， 並肩躺臥，如情慾勃發的愛侶， 如緊握的雙手， 如同終點與道路。 娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩在長篇小說體裁中穿插了人類學田野日誌、民間故事採集記錄、任務報告、創世神話等多種文學形式，使得小說在外星使節真力．艾的個人經歷與思維之外展開了恢弘的多元文化視野。 「對我而言，我僅僅是在觀察－－以某種特定、歧異，並且適用於科幻小說的思考實驗模式來觀察－－倘若你在某些特定時節的特定時刻，仔細審視我們自己，我們早已經是雙性同體的存在。」 早已習慣以男女性別二分的視角來看待、思考事物的我們，忽略了什麼？長期研讀老子哲學的勒瑰恩，成功且迷人地在這部早期寫作生涯里程碑之作中闡述了她對二元分立的思考價值觀的反思。