A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again. Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction -- Cecelia Ahern. Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!

在线阅读本书 A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

俄裔美国作家安·兰德（Ayn Rand，1905一1982）的科幻小说《地球战栗》（Atlas Shrugged），这部著作中着重于对虚无主义主题的描写。在当代文学中，虚无主义主题在科特·沃尼格特（Ku rt Vonnegut）的书中也可见。罗伯特·斯通（Robert Stone）也是一位经常以虚无主义为主题的美国当代作家。在他的小说“日落之旗”（A Flag for Sunrise）（1981年）中，主角霍利维尔（Holliwell）挣扎着对抗他自己的虚无主义倾向。另一位书写虚无主义的是美国作家恰克·帕拉涅科（Chuck Palahniuk）。如在他1996年的小说“斗阵俱乐部”中，“毁灭计划”的终极目的就是摧毁现代文明以重建人性。然而帕拉涅科声称他并没有故意写虚无主义。 由于这部小说，兰德不再仅仅被称为“最畅销小说家”，而且还被称为“最具影响力的思想家”。在其“后记”中，兰德写道：我的哲学，就其精髓而言，是关于英雄般地生活着的人的概念，他以自身感受的幸福作为他人生的唯一道德目标，他以创造性的生产劳动作为他唯一高尚的活动，他以理性作为他唯一接受的绝对准则。 但是“幸福”，作为一种激情，兰德相信，它来自具有客观价值的成就感。这种成就以及达到它们的手段，我们只能凭借理性，从大千世界中去寻找和辨识。在这一探索过程中，为达到我们命定的目标，我们还需要具备一些美德——独立、诚实、正直、骄傲、一致性与创造性。 安.兰德的“客观主义”哲学从下述“公理”出发，她自己称之为“存在的首要事实”（the primacy of existence），或者，又可称为“形而上学现实主义”——世界独立于人的意识而存在，它是现实的，真实的，是存在的首要事实。这意味着事物就是事物本身（物自体）。当然，也就意味着，人只能感知和想象他所处的这一客观的世界。这一“公理”，兰德认为，是一切属于人的知识的出发点。作为对比，我援引金岳霖先生的知识论——首先有“主体－认知关系－客体”这一思想图案，其次有客观的“所与”（the given）以及所与在官觉内的呈现，再次有基于所与呈现的意像与思想。 一方面，由于采取了雅理士多德以来西方传统哲学的“主－客”两分的立场，还由于承认生存于特定时空的个人的理性能力是有限的，兰德相信，主体对客体的认知是以“局部的”，每当我们的思想图像变得足够大从而难以被记忆的时候，我们就创造一个“概念”——通常以“符号”形式——来代表这一思想图像。故而，概念是知识的“单元”。另一方面，或许受到伯格森的影响，兰德相信，当认知主体试图对每一概念里包含着的无数可能的具有某种相似性的事物时，他自身必须具有“同一性”，他自己的人格不应是分裂的，在他的意识里主体是统一的，否则，这概念就是支离破碎的，从而不成为知识的单元。 所以，人能够把无数可能的事物根据它们之间的某种相似性分类为“概念”，首先因为人有理性——在“主体－认知关系－客体”这一思想图案内主体从所与呈现中发现各种关系的能力，其次因为人有尊严——首先是身体的同一性，继而是思想的独立性，再而是生活的完整性。 在西方思想传统里，兰德的上述立场被称为是“客观主义”的，与此相应，兰德的社会理论是个人主义的，是有着至高无上的尊严的主体对客体的认知并由此获得升华的过程。在中国思想传统里，金岳霖先生称他自己的立场“既非主观主义的也非客观主义的”，他努力要做到的，是“事与理并重”的态度，是“既求真实又求通理”的认识论，是“有能有式”的本体论。 兰德的立场与金岳霖先生的立场，有一点是相通的，那就是对“真”的尊重——我们对外物的真实感要求这外物独立于我们的意识，要求它不随我们意志的改变而改变，同时还要求我们关于外物所建立的通理是公的而非私的。金先生说，上述三项条件缺一则“真”取消。缺乏真，我们会感到人生不是圆融的，而是支离的，是疏远的，是荒唐的。 求真实的人生，兰德由此认为，要求每一个人努力成就一些真实的而非虚幻的事情。人的这种要把生命的真实感表达出来的努力，被称为“生产”，也称为“创造”。

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries “Game of Thrones.” This boxed set includes the following novels: A GAME OF THRONES A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWS

Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul. From the Hardcover edition.

Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle, Holmes’s tragic and fortunately premature farewell in The Final Problem, and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley， University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild， passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff， a foundling adopted by Catherine s father. After Mr Earnshaw s death， Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated， leaves Wuthering Heights， only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent， but the accomplished handling of a complex structure， the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

《Pride and Prejudice(英文版)》是简·奥斯丁的代表作。小说以18世纪末19世纪初保守，闭塞的英国乡村生活为背景。通过几个中产阶级少女对终身大事的处理，表达了这一社会阶层的婚姻恋爱观为了财产和地位而结婚是错误的。但结婚不考虑财产也是愚蠢的小说的女主人公伊丽莎白出生于平民阶层却为富家子弟达西所心仪。服了当时的门第观念、向伊丽莎白求婚，却遭到拒绝。原来伊丽莎白误信了谗言。最后误会涣然冰释，达西又帮助伊丽莎白的一个私奔的妹妹完婚，挽回家庭的声终于赢得了她的爱情。同时，小说中还描写了伊丽莎白的几个姐妹和女友的婚事以此与主人公理想的婚姻相对照。作品语言清新洗练。风趣机智，情节曲折有致，极富戏剧色彩，是奥斯了一生创作的六部小说中最受人们喜爱的一部。It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posses-sion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may beon his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in theminds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightfulproperty of some one or other of their daughters.

Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in themselves and those around them.

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. 点击链接进入中文版： 芒果街上的小屋

《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作，霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周，声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼，很长一段时日，让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题，都交织在这部惊世之作里：爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德 ★一个阿富汗作家的处女作 ★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事，深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典 ★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书 ★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书 ★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军 ★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》 “许多年过去了，人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬，然而我终于明白这是错的，因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘，我意识到在过去二十六年里，自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。” 《华盛顿邮报》认为：“没有虚矫赘文，没有无病呻吟，只有精炼的篇章，细腻勾勒家庭与友谊，背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来，轻笔淡描，近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。” 12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一场风筝比赛后，发生了一件悲惨不堪的事，阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦，逼走了哈桑，不久，自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。 成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪，阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡，希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力，却发现一个惊天谎言，儿时的噩梦再度重演，阿米尔该如何抉择？ 小说如此残忍而又美丽，作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎，读来令人荡气回肠。 Book Description Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. width:(cm)10.6 点击链接进入中文版： 追风筝的人

This is a new paperback edition of JRR Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, "The Hobbit". "The Hobbit" is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of Five Armies are just some of the adventures that befall Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children's fiction. Written by Professor Tolkien for his own children, "The Hobbit" met with instant critical acclaim when published.

在线阅读本书 The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family -- their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

达西是一位表面傲慢、实则心地善良的富家子弟，优越的环境令他对自己的傲慢浑然不觉；伊丽莎白是一位聪慧过人、心思缜密的姑娘，过于相信第一印象，自恃明察秋毫却往往身陷偏见的迷宫。傲慢的达西对固执偏见的伊丽莎白一见钟情，然而达西的傲慢和伊丽莎白的偏见却又注定了这是一段误会重重又不失幽默气氛的爱情故事。 《傲慢与偏见》是珍妮·奥斯汀的代表作，讲述的是一对青年的爱情故事，因一方的傲慢与另一方的偏见而导致好事多磨。作者以女性特有的敏锐和细腻观察、描绘了有钱、有闲阶级恬静舒适的田园生活以及绅士淑女的爱情与婚姻，以高超的艺术技巧反映了18世纪英国乡镇日常生活情景，给当时小说创作吹进了朴素的现实主义之风，在英国小说史上起着承上启下的作用。小时说情节曲折，富有戏剧性，语言清新流畅，充满机智，是奥斯汀最受欢迎的一部小说。

The Book Thief is a 2005 best-selling novel by Markus Zusak, and a finalist for the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award.

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author.