How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. There are over 190,000 copies in print of this classic guide to getting the most from your reading.

在线阅读本书 A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Café." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

林语堂的作品如同他的一生，孜孜地向世界解说中国，向祖国表达赤忱。 作为用英语创作的一位中国作家，他向西方介绍中国文化的系列作品影响深远，被视作阐述东方思想的重要著述。 此次结集的“林语堂英文作品集”，除保留外研社曾出版的《吾国与吾民》、《生活的艺术》、《浮生六记》和《京华烟云》等代表作品外，还收录了《风声鹤唳》、《老子的智慧》和《武则天传》等十余部颇具影响的原版著作。 书目说明之后的8页左右，提供了林语堂及其家人的珍贵照片。 林语堂受当时创作环境所限，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，专有名词均适用威妥玛拼音音译。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达上，称少数民族为foreign blod,foreign race乃至以Chinese特指Han Chinese等。诸如此类，为不妨碍我们对文学和语言的鉴赏，在我们最大程度地保留作品原貌的同时，敬期读者明辨。

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. “Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. “After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations. These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.

《飞鸟集》是泰戈尔的代表作之一，也是世界上最杰出的诗集之一，它包括300余首清丽的小诗。白昼和黑夜、溪流和海洋、自由和背叛，都在泰戈尔的笔下合二为一，短小的语句道出了深刻的人生哲理，引领世人探寻真理和智慧的源泉。初读这些小诗，如同在暴风雨过后的初夏清晨，推开卧室的窗户，看到一个淡泊清透的世界，一切都是那样的清新、亮丽，可是其中的韵味却很厚实，耐人寻味。

《从柏拉图到巴特的文学理论》评价了自柏拉图到罗兰。巴特的重要文艺思潮发展阶段以及这些阶段中的重要思想家。内容包括理论家的著述提要，理论流派的划分和各个时期理论发展的情况等，简洁清晰地解释了七十余个术语。并通过一份长大6页的书单反映出近三十年来在文学理论研究领域所取得的重要成果，还结合当代文学研究的现状提出了不少令人深思的问题。

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest .

Publisher Comments: The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of these volumes have contemporary illustrations, and while they are ideal for shared family reading, their attractive format will also encourage children to read for themselves. Like all Wordsworth Editions, these children's books represent unbeatable value. Synopsis: These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar Wilde for his own sons. Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter trials when he rejects his parents.

《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》在中国赴美国的留学生中享有广泛的声誉，经过口口相传，几乎成了每一个出国留学者必备的英文写作指南。一个人必须首先了解规则才能够去打破它。这本经典的指导书是每个学生和写作者的必读之书。《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》以简短的篇幅阐明了英文朴实风格必须具备的基本原则，集中阐释了英语文法应用、写作技巧以及一般人在写作中常犯的错误等。

在线阅读本书 One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

《安徒生童话》充满着诗意和幻想。鸟兽虫鱼、花萆树木，整个大自然乃至家庭中的家具和玩偶等都被赋予了生命，注入了思想感情，生动活泼，引人人胜。大胆的幻想超越了时间和空间的界限，好奇的求知欲穿透了大自然的秘密，丑小鸭变成了优雅的天鹅，小人鱼为了爱变成了美丽的少女，夜莺奇妙的歌声制服了死神……这里是充满奇思妙想的国度，带你回到五彩缤纷的童年时光。

This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

在线阅读本书 Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a life-long quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life. In this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and the mind -- and the pain and passion of true romance -- Emily Brontë created an unforgettable classic saga of love, desperation, vengeance, and forgiveness. Published just one year before Brontë's death in 1848 at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights endures as one of the world's greatest love stories and a classic of English literature.

这部《英文观止》做到了佐良先生阐述的要求。纵览全书，《英文观止》的最大的特色是：规模恢宏，谋篇独到，注释详尽，思维新颖。具体地说，精选的近80位名家的佳作，既跳动着国内外学术动向的最新脉搏，亦不人云亦云，如对作者的简介中就有不少涉及他们创作时的生活细节，均取自他们的传记，为注释平添了许多生动的事例，也增加了注释的可信度，丰富了本书的学术性、知识性和趣味性。 《英文观止》的问世，无疑是我国外语教学的一件喜事，对英语文学研究是一种突破，而对高校中英语专业的师生和英语文学的爱好者说也是一种福音。 《英文观止》内容上启公元8世纪，下至20世纪70年代，囊括中古世纪、文艺复兴、启蒙运动、浪漫主义、现实主义及现代派之经典著作；翻译出自朱生豪、方平、李赋宁、王佐良等多位前辈之手，最具权威；注释解说详尽，选材全面，是国内首次系统介绍英语文学名著的开山之作。

《胡适英文文存》系列结集了胡适于20世纪20年代左右到60年代初之间撰写的英文文章或英文演讲，它们大多都曾发表于颇具影响的英文刊物上，并对当时的中国社会产生过重大影响。按主题分编为《中国文学与社会》、《中国哲学与思想史》和《民族危机与公共外交》三册，由普林斯顿大学东亚系教授周质平选编。 《胡适英文作品集（一）中国文学与社会》结集胡适自1914年到1961年前后的重要英文论文及演讲28篇。全书横向以主题分类，可见胡适在这两方面主要的论点和贡献，纵向以发表时间为序编排，可见胡适于这两方面思想发展的脉络。本书以胡适发表时的原文影印本为底本，经仔细查证和勘误，旨在让中外读者更加了解胡适向世界介绍中国文化的传统及其近现代发展方面发挥的作用。

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虽然有个别篇目仍然缺漏，而且校对不精，但这毕竟是第一本集中地收录了钱锺书先生英文作品的书，其价值不容小觑。文章24篇，其中包括钱锺书先生在牛津大学学位论文《十七、十八世纪英国文学中的中国》，以及曾刊于《天下月刊》、《中国评论家》、《书林季刊》等英文杂志上的书评、随笔等。内容涉及东西方的古典文史。有人认为钱锺书先生是近代以来写英文写得最漂亮的中国人，有兴趣的读者不妨比较一下，看看辜鸿铭、林语堂、吴经熊、陈世骧、夏志清这些同样以英文文笔著称的作家跟钱锺书比起来，到底谁的文笔更地道些。在我看来，单论含蓄的嘲讽这方面，钱锺书先生的英文堪称独步。

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom. The Art of Travel is a wise and utterly original book. Don’t leave home without it.

Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson, will show you how to anticipate change, adapt to change quickly, enjoy change and be ready to change quickly again and again. Discover the secret for yourself and learn how to deal with change, so that you suffer from less stress and enjoy more success in your work and in life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime. 点击链接进入中文版： 谁动了我的奶酪?(纪念版)