《培根论说文集》，本书内容广博。其中既有为官者的仕宦之道，又有适用于一般民众的社交技巧；既有对人类情感的独到见解，也有对如何升官发财的条分缕折……同时还有一些篇什论及殖民地、对外贸易等问题，体现了强烈的时代气息，从中可以窥见十七世纪英国的社会现实。该译本附有大量注释，多为西方历史故事和文学知识，融知识性和趣味性为一体。使读者们在阅读本书感觉其语言美的同时，也能更好地把握其文化历史内涵。

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --"Associated Press " The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, "All Things Bright and Beautiful" is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, "All Creatures Great and Small," and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. "Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric---all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable." --"Columbus Dispatch"

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is "Les Miserables "(1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre. "Les Miserables "is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama--highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications--of the redemption of one human being.

《宠儿》堪称美国黑人历史的一座纪念碑。主要情节取材于一个真实的历史故事。小说中的主人公――女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕只身从肯塔基的奴隶庄园逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提，奴隶主循踪追至；为了使儿女不再重复自己做奴隶的悲惨命运，她毅然杀死了自己的一个女儿。十八年后奴隶制早已废除，而被她杀死的女婴还魂归来，以自己的出现日夜惩罚母亲当年的行 为，并以色相引诱欲与塞丝相好的保罗・D，企图独占母亲的爱……本书充分展示了作者高超的叙事技巧，极具艺术震撼力，曾轰动美国，系莫里森 的巅峰之作。

《苏东坡传》讲述了：林语堂，用美妙的英文向世界介绍中国人和中国历史文化，但是，囿于所处时代、社会环境和个人经历，他的思想认识不免带有历史的局限。20世纪30年代至50年代正是中国国内动荡变迁、破旧立新的时期，特定的创作背景无疑也给他的作品留下印痕。显而易见地，比如当时对朝代称谓与历史纪元的划定不统一(如称清朝为Manchu Dynasty)；且时无汉语拼音方案，专有名词均使用威妥玛拼音音译等。此外，也能发现作者在解读文化历史和社会生活现象时的不足，如反映在民族关系的表述上，称中国的一些少数民族为foreign blood、foreign race，乃至以Chinese特指Han Chinese等。

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.

We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times 'It has an entertainment and educational value which is unique. It is uproariously funny and passes the acid test of becoming more amusing at every subsequent reading... I will go so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, Messrs Lynn and Jay have created something as immortal as P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves' - Brian Walden in The Standard

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common--the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction.

Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent best Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP ' Yes Prime Minister ... is not only a continuing marvel of editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph ' Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own' - Celia Brayfield in The Times

《茶花女》是根据法国著名小说家、戏剧家小仲马亲身经历所写的一部力作。《茶花女》的意大利名称为Traviata，原意为“一个堕落的女人”(或“失足者”)，一般均译作“茶花女”。 巴黎名妓玛格丽特为青年阿尔芒的真挚爱情所感动，毅然离开社交生活，与阿尔芒同居乡间。阿尔芒之父责备玛格丽特毁了儿子的前程，玛格丽特被迫返回巴黎重操旧业。阿尔芒盛怒之下，在社交场合当众羞辱她。玛格丽特一病不起，含恨而死。阿尔芒读了玛格丽特的遗书，方知真相，追悔莫及。

《傲慢与偏见(世界文学名著英语原著版)》是英国女小说家简·奥斯汀的代表作。这部作品以日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，生动地反映了18世纪末到19世纪初处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情。这部社会风情画式的小说不仅在当时吸引着广大的读者，时至今日，仍给读者以独特的艺术享受。《傲慢与偏见(世界文学名著英语原著版)》为英语原著版。

He's Just Not That Into You * * the six little words that changed dating forever For ages women have come together over coffee, cocktails, or late-night phone chats to analyze the puzzling behavior of men. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo are here to say that -- despite good intentions -- you're wasting your time. Men are not complicated, although they'd like you to think they are. And there are no mixed messages. The truth may be he's just not that into you. Based on a popular episode of Sex and the City, He's Just Not That Into You educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn't like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. The newly expanded edition includes: • A new foreword by Greg • A new chapter providing an honest look at the stages of lifeafter He's Just Not That Into You, according to Liz: exaltation,loneliness, temptation, and balance • Greg's and Liz's answers to the most frequently asked questionsfrom readers

《看电影的艺术(影印第7版)》编辑推荐：美国高校经典教程，透彻解析观影之道。全面展现电影艺术，完整还原原著风貌。加州大学伯克利分校等400余所著名学府指定教材，发行7版畅销不衰。聚焦当下热门影片，以全新视角解读经典知识体系，兼顾趣味性与理论性。独具特色的“闪回”单元，集中探讨了动画、剪辑、色彩等技术领域的发展脉络。影印版完整呈现原书450余幅图片，配以48个彩页，生动展现“视觉特效”、“色彩”等相关章节精彩内容。保留原书中片段练习、DVD花絮参考、索引等内容，方便读者使用、学习。

《找不着北:CCTV洋主播的中国故事》内容简介：迷糊老外单枪匹马独闯中国；在这儿人生地不熟，对中文又一窍不通；却偏偏艺不高人胆大，东游西逛、四处历险没法沟通？没关系，可以唱歌呀，这可是国际通用语言。咦？那位指路的好心人为什么竖起三根手指？这在我的国家可不太礼貌哦。哎？中国的菜单怎么把动物的胃、肠子、脚丫子直接译成英文了？这叫人哪还有胃！77想知道这个可爱老外的更多新鲜事吗？那就翻开这本《找不着北:CCTV洋主播的中国故事》慢慢品味吧。

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a feat never equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated net worth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only GBP50,000 a year. His only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges by calling it "The Indefensible".In 2006, he made the largest charitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides a comprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's most extraordinary and much loved public figures.

《世界史》(第四版)(英文影印版)是以个人之力撰写世界通史，麦克尼尔的《世界史》与斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》是一时并称的两部成功的范例。麦克尼尔眼中的“世界史”，焦点在四大文明（中东、印度、中国、欧洲），他特别致力于结合考古新发现来描述它们相互之间的联系。地理、交通、技术、文艺等等，人类文明的诸要素一一展现在他的生花妙笔之下。 大家手笔，深入浅出，《世界史》文字之简明流畅，是一般教科书所不及的。自1960年代问世至今，《世界史》一直在英语世界中畅销不衰，既是历史专业大学生的理想教科书，也是普通读者了解世界历史的首选入门读物。

《牛津英国史》介绍了自公元前55年至2000年英国和英国人民的历史，时间跨度达2000余年。本书的主编Kenneth O. Morgan为英国著名历史学家，本书亦是英国历史方面的权威。北京外国语大学的钟美荪教授为本书的难点作了注释，方便了读者的理解。本书适用于英国社会文化研究专业的研究生、教师及其他对英国历史感兴趣的读者，亦可作为讲授英国社会文化课程的教材。 List of Maps 1. ROMAN BRITAIN 2. THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD 3. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 4. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES 5. THE TUDOR AGE 6. THE STUARTS 7. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 8. REVOLUTION CENTURY 9. THE LIBERAL AGE 10. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

THE BESTSELLING POLITICAL THRILLER THAT INTRODUCED THE SCHEMING FRANCIS URQUHART - THE MOST MEMORABLE POLITICIAN OF THE LAST DECADE Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become Prime Minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young political correspondent. She faces the biggest challenge of her life when she stumbles upon a scandalous web of intrigue and financial corruption at the very highest levels. She is determined to reveal the truth, but she must risk everything to do so. . .