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To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and h

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany

A haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation f

Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.

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Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression f

After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life.

The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first p

An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal

Excerpt from Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World

In their Guilt or well or they could, tho', principal Pym rate if to hit Place, and we fay no more. 

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Like its significantly more popular predecessor, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adven

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the wil

作者：Wu Cheng'en, W.J.F. Jenner

书名：Journey to the West(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《西游记》

简介：First published in 1952, The Journey to the West,

作者：Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong

书名：Outlaws of the Marsh(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《水浒传》

简介：China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Ma

作者：Luo Guanzhong

书名：The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《三国演义》

简介：A new translation and abridgment of one of the fou

作者： Cao Xueqin, John Minford, Edwin Lowe, H. Joly

书名：The Dream of the Red Chamber(The Story of the Stone #1-5)《红楼梦》

简介：The Dream of the Red Chamber is

作者：Montesquieu, C.J. Betts

书名：Persian Letters《波斯人信札》

简介：This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left

作者 : Bernard Malamud

书名 : The Complete Stories《完整故事》

简介 ：New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997

With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American

作者: Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mallon

书名：Main Street《老百姓》

英文简介：This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-t

作者: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Mallon

书名：Tarzan of the Apes(Tarzan #1)《人猿泰山》

英文简介：In 1888, in a makeshift cabin at the edge of the West African

作者: Magda Szabo

书名：Iza's Ballad《伊扎的歌谣》

英文简介：When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house

作者: Clarice Lispector

书名：A Breath of Life《必不可少的东西》

英文简介：A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and hi

作者: Clarice Lispector

书名：Água Viva《Água万岁》

英文简介：A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector d

作者: Clarice Lispector

书名：Near to the Wild Heart《接近野性的心》

英文简介：Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March t

作者: Clarice Lispector

书名：The Passion According to G.H.《G.H.的激情》

英文简介：Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome

作者: Clarice Lispector

书名：The Hour of the Star《星光时刻》

英文简介：The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her mas

作者: Patrick Hamilton

书名：Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky《天空下的那些街》

英文简介：A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of s

作者: Patrick Hamilton

书名：Hangover Square《汉欧威广场》

英文简介：Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frus

作者: Patrick Hamilton, David Lodge

书名：The Slaves of Solitude《孤独之奴》

英文简介：England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on fore

作者: Djuna Barnes

书名：Nightwood《夜莺》

英文简介：The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Nightwood, Djuna

作者: Jeanette Winterson

书名：Love《爱》

英文简介：How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong《客厅里的绅士》

英文简介：Best known for his novels a

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Then and Now《时常》

英文简介：Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Catalina《卡塔琳娜—— 一段罗曼史》

英文简介：Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Mrs Craddock《克拉多克夫人》

英文简介：A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experien

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：The Narrow Corner《偏僻的角落》

英文简介：Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Liza of Lambeth《兰姆贝思的丽莎》

英文简介：This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Christmas Holiday《圣诞假期》

英文简介：For Christmas, Charley Mason's father granted him a trip to Paris, all expenses paid.

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Ashenden《阿申登故事集》或《一个英国间谍》

英文简介：A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the pe

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：The Magician《魔术师》

英文简介：Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction The Magician is one of Somerset M

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Up at the Villa《别墅里红运高照之人》

英文简介：In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who

作者: W. Somerset Maugham

书名：Cakes and Ale《蛋糕和麦芽酒》

英文简介：Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social cl