侦探波洛在叙利亚完成了一项委托，要搭乘辛普朗号东方快车回国。奇怪的是，似乎全世界的人都选在那一夜出行，这列铺位一向宽裕的豪华列车竟然一票难求。幸好他遇到了好友、国际客车公司的董事布克先生，这才挤上了车。 午夜过后，一场大雪迫使辛普朗号停了下来。第二天一早，大家发现少了一名乘客。一个美国人死在了他的包厢里，被刺了十二刀，可他包厢的门却是反锁的。随着调查的深入，案情却似乎更加扑朔迷离，大侦探波洛想出了两种截然不同的解释……

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, ...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading" (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--"Everything That Rises Must Converge "and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death--is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.

Orsinia ... a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. In this enchanting collection, Ursula K. Le Guin brings to mainstream fiction the same compelling mastery of word and deed, of story and character, of violence and love, that has won her the Pushcart Prize, and the Kafka and National Book Awards.</p>

两个二战的幸存者、美国士兵约翰和德国士兵A，施加于彼此的片刻“怜悯”却改变了他们和他们所爱之人的一生。 1945年，一架美军的B-24轰炸机在进攻德军时坠毁，幸存者约翰只能和一个德军士兵A分享最后一点食物，然后各自踏上亡命之途。约翰如何凭借对妻子哈莉特的爱拒绝死亡的诱惑；A如何在逃亡中变成法国人“雨果”，为了拯救孤儿马丁被流弹削去一半头部；终生为身世困扰的马丁在养老院见证了雨果之死；陷入孤独的导演丹尼如何向雨果回馈多年前无私的陪伴； 约翰失明的孙女艾米莉亚如何面对祖父的财富和隐痛…… 在西蒙·范·布伊迷宫般的迷人文字中，所有的人都曾被孤独、绝望和恐惧撕碎，但通过隐秘的命运纽带，他们无一不战胜了自身的孤绝，通过爱和善意顽强地楔入他人的世界。 作者用回 旋的、优美得令人窒息的叙事注解了一行禅师的偈语：“我们在这里，是为了从分离的幻象中苏醒。 ”

"One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did, making us weary. It was the end." Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg--the city where he was born and where he would later die--from across its Elbe River. He heard the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home--and his manuscripts--would survive the devastation. "The End" is his terse, remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, "The End" is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied bombing campaign from the German perspective. In the first English-language edition of "The End, " Nossack's text has been crisply translated by Joel Agee and is accompanied by the photographs of Erich Andres. Poetic, evocative, and yet highly descriptive, "The End" will prove to be, as Sebald claimed, one of the most important German books on the firebombing of that country. "A small but critical book, something to read in those quiet moments when we wonder what will happen next."--Susan Salter Reynolds, "Los Angeles Times"

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky s own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.

谁是夜神科尔内尔？这是一部长篇，一部短篇集子，一部自传？都是，也都不是。 四十岁过后，科斯托拉尼并未意识到他的生命很快将走到尽头，或者意识到了他的生命将要走到尽头？都是，也都不是。《夜神科尔内尔》是一次生命，又是很多次生命。 科尔内尔∙艾希蒂是一个来自外省的文学青年，在首都，他经历又怀疑过一切，他像个玩世不恭的孩童寻找着世间种种光怪陆离的幻象……其寻找之旅折射出深刻的包容与同情。 夜神科尔内尔是游弋在布达佩斯大都市夜色里的堂吉诃德，这个人物本身，或者说科斯托拉尼本身，就是现代匈牙利语言的象征。简洁又深刻，怪异又明晰，平易却哲理，悲伤也亲切。 夜神科尔内尔在德语、西班牙语版本的书名被译作《科尔内尔∙艾希蒂——自己时代的英雄》，然而，科斯托拉尼不仅给了夜神科尔内尔一个时代，更给出了一个时空，而且是多维的时空。

《克苏鲁神话》被誉为20世纪最伟大、最具影响力的恐怖小说体系，作者是H.P·洛夫克拉夫特——或者“爱手艺”。 假设你的脚边有一只蚂蚁在爬，你不会在意有没有踩死它，因为它太渺小了，是死还是活，对你来说没有分毫影响。在“克苏鲁神话”中描述的远古邪神的眼中，人类就是那只蚂蚁。 洛夫克拉夫特所倡导的“宇宙主义”，即人类远非世界的主宰者，在尚未探索的未知宇宙中，隐藏着超乎想象、不可名状的恐怖真相，只是见上一眼就能让人陷入疯狂或者死亡。正如作者本人所述：“人类坠古老、坠强烈的情感是恐惧；而坠古老、坠强烈的恐惧，是对未知的恐惧”。 本书收录了“克苏鲁神话”中口碑最好、呼声最高的4部经典中短篇小说，包括《疯狂山脉》《印斯茅斯小镇的阴霾》《墙中之鼠》《超越时间之影》。随手翻开一个故事，唤起你内心深处对黑暗的恐惧。 “待在疯狂山脉背风的阴影之中，你必须管好自己的想象力。” 繁星已经抵达特定的位置，旧日支配者即将重现人间。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ◆ 说好的《克苏鲁神话》第二弹，终于填坑 ◆ 你们要的《疯狂山脉》《印斯茅斯》《墙中之鼠》《超越时间之影》全在里面 ◆ 熟悉的配方：上一本《克苏鲁神话》原班人马操刀制作 ◆ 升级的味道：更加黑暗、恐怖、不可名状的选篇，更加丰富、细腻、不可名状的元素 ◆ 地图、报纸、旧照片、污秽、崇拜符号、召唤咒语……超丰富克苏鲁元素，代入感十足 ◆ 脱下书皮，内封的时髦值又一次爆表 ◆ 高级烫金工艺，在阳光下散发出光怪陆离的绿色魔光 ◆ 将手机放在本书上，将获得克苏鲁的庇佑buff，有更高几率抽到五星/SSR/金蛋/超稀有……真的 ◆ 入坑首选，收藏必备，克总发糖 ◆ 真正的粉丝，就算没有看到上面这些，也一定会入手

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

“贴近爱尔兰灵魂”的作家 约翰•麦加恩 科尔姆•托宾悉心为其选编十个故事 —————————————— 他笔下的人物时常禁锢在孤独中，但就在这份孤独迈向暴力、爱、悲痛或亲昵之际，他建立起他虚构的小说天地。 —————————————— 约翰•麦加恩被英国《卫报》誉为“自萨缪尔•贝克特以来最伟大的爱尔兰作家”，也被称赞是“贴近爱尔兰灵魂的作家”。本书由科尔姆•托宾从约翰•麦加恩作品中选取的十个故事集结而成，这些故事主要以爱尔兰内陆、香浓河畔和都柏林为背景，主人公有公务员、教师、护士及警察等，他们大多来自农村，到都市寻求爱情和理想，却在传统乡村生活和现代化生活之间挣扎。麦加恩以细腻的笔触、诗意的语言，不动声色地写出了笔下人物的孤独、忧郁、痛苦和挣扎。 ———————————————— 麦加恩将对前景彻底悲观的展望与观察社会的敏锐触角相结合。选集中最后一篇《乡下的葬礼》，堪称自詹姆斯•乔伊斯的《死者》之后，爱尔兰最杰出的短篇小说。它在一定程度上，具有和乔伊斯那篇故事同样的广度。 ——科尔姆•托宾 麦加恩给我们带来了最好的小说的滋补品，一种透明的感觉，它让我们看到了想象中的生活，而且比我们自己拥有的生活看得更清晰。 ——约翰•厄普代克 麦加恩无疑是自贝克特去世以来最重要的作家，而且，他非常不寻常，因为他既在知识分子中拥有绝对的尊重，同时又受到普通读者的欢迎。 ——德克兰•凯伯德（爱尔兰文学评论家）

And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks. André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.

"Feigen, frische Feigen!" ruft vor den Toren des Vatikans eine dicke Römerin neben einem kahlgeschorenen Mann, der ein T-Shirt mit dem Aufdruck "Mafia. Made in Italy" trägt und auf einem Stab einen kleinen Plastiknegerkopf in die Höhe hält, den er den vorbeigehenden Pilgern zeigt. Aufdringlich, geradezu überwältig fühlbar, riechbar, hör- und sehbar beschreibt Josef Winkler in seiner "römischen Novelle" die Stadt, wo sie am lebendigsten ist: wochentags das Markttreiben auf der Piazza Vittorio Emanuele; sonntags das Warten und Lungern vor dem Vatikan. Unter den Wartenden befinden sich die Feigenverkäuferin und ihr schöner Sohn, der sonst für einen Fischhändler auf der Piazza Vittorio Emanuele arbeitet. Auch dort auf dem Markt, zwischen all den Menschenleibern, toten und zerteilten Tieren, Südfrüchten und Gemüse, taucht allenthalben - einbezogen in ein pausenloses Kreuzfeuer gelangweilter, taxierender und begehrender Blicke, neckendr und unverschämter Zurufe - dieser Piccoletto mit de n langen Wimpern auf, dessen Welt dann - einen losen Augenblick lang - in einer unheimlichen Beschleunigung und Verdichtung in den Sog von Piccolettos Schicksal gerissen wird, ist atemraubend.

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.

The story of Atlas and Heracles Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight -- visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day -- Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head to show us a different truth is put to stunning effect. When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is "I want to tell the story again." My work is full of Cover Versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. "Weight" moves far away from the simple story of Atlas's punishment and his temporary relief when Hercules takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere.--from Jeanette Winterson's Foreword to Weight "From the Hardcover edition.

Synopsis John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their moments with him. All of this Berger sets against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1889, the Boer War, and the first flight across the Alps.