Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

2018 film directed by David Yates

is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

'In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active. "It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.' These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort's power and followers increasing day by day

2007 film by Jiang Wen

2007 film by Peter Greenaway

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.

An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

時值十九世紀末，位於倫敦黑石南區的艾柏特宅邸與距離一哩之遙的維多利亞別莊，住著有親屬關係的兩戶人家。他們就和當時的一般家族一樣：關係和樂，往來密切。然而，這個大家族在短短幾個月內竟死了三個人。 十七歲的保羅無法接受父親驟然辭世，更不相信他的死因是單純的食物中毒，繼外祖母也因同樣原因而暴斃之後，保羅決心追查事件的真相，卻不意揭露出一椿椿駭人的醜聞，還把私心愛慕的女子伊莎貝兒送上了殺人嫌犯的位置。 再過幾禮拜，下毒殺人罪刑確定的伊莎貝兒就要被處決了…… 年輕聰明又不服輸的保羅面對重重打擊，卻束手無策，在此千鈞一髮之際，他要如何突破困境，找出真兇，將楚楚可憐的伊莎貝兒救出絕境呢？

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

作者：禾田 2005-04-02 13:46:10 邮差总敲两次门 在命运之神冥冥的操控下，人性的把握是一个有多大限度的挣扎。当命运之神出奇地宽容，人的本性又是如何地将之躏踏。网无所不网，也许你并不想去了解，其实了解了对你并没有多大的好处、其实了不了解对你的生活并没有太大的影响。如果你还有兴趣想听一听的话，我来跟你讲一讲这样的一本小说，作者是美国的小说硬派大师：詹姆斯·凯恩（1892-1977），小说《邮差总敲两次门》是他的成名作，作家也因此被称为黑色浪漫小说的艺术巨匠。 《邮差总敲两次门》(The postman always rings twice) 讲述了一个年轻流浪汉弗兰克为得到美丽的老板娘科拉，而老板娘科拉又想摆脱她的墨西哥丈夫，于是两人共同谋划了一起交通事故杀死老板。老板被杀死了，两人也因此被捕。在庭审阶段，所有的爱与承诺都变得软弱无力，深涵心理的检察官与律师牢牢地控制着审判的局面，而局面又最终被以金钱利益为中心的保险公司所牢牢控制，于是，两人奇迹般地死里逃生，开始了向往的自由生活。但是，真正的二人世界并未使预想中的爱情更加地伟大，一次律师的敲诈被他们共同击退，一次婚外情却让他们彻底地绝裂。在现实种种的压力下，爱显得脆弱。最后时刻，女方由于怀孕而给了爱情最后一次机会，两人一起来到海里游泳，这既是一次复合的机会，也提供了“深海溺水”这样一个死亡的借口，以让伪善背后的邪恶从容地出现。最终，是大海与孩子的感召，两人重新走回一起。心绪随情节起伏，紧绷的弦终于为爱舒了一口气，可这时，命运再次弄人，在送夫人往医院生产途中，发生了意外车祸，女人死了。命运的邮差敲响了第二次门，男人因此被无辜地认定为故意杀人罪而判以极刑。这里爱与人性的刻画也让人感到震撼。爱情的突然与热烈；在生存危机中爱情的孤告无力，爱恨交加，由爱转恨。 读到这里，天网恢恢的感觉反而不是对于公正的法律而言，深切感到命数的轮回与现实的儿戏。小说的魅力在于此，虚构的情节，让邪恶溜走，将美丽抹杀。想他死的时候他不死，想他活的时候却又将其送离了人间。人间的真相本非我等所能参透，从不同的角度探求得出不同的观感。有些是点与面的不同，有些只能留待时间去慢慢地考证。在相对时空的应证下，人世间存留多少真正的繁华与永恒。邮差总敲两次门，我们可以去追求片面的欢乐，却更要叩问自我与人性的真实，如周国平语：“未经参省的人生不是真正的人生”。 回到本话题，小说写到这里，除了描述主人公命运的悲哀，更加痛斥的，是在资本现实社会下，所谓法律执行者们的奴性。他们所关心的，是他们的名利地位，即使真相对他们来说是一清二楚，即使法律对他们而言也是了如指掌，但那是工具而已，法律的公平与公正，是有代价的。 天网恢恢，不单指法律，更多的是指心灵的阴影，这，才是最终取人于无形。没有那次车祸，同样会有第二次的敲门。

In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a small transport plane. While flying, a powerful storm forces Quinn to make an emergency landing on a nearby deserted island. The dissimilar pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.