The Ballad of the Sad Cafe[伤心咖啡馆之歌]介绍：A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullerss best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Caf. 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 caf serves as the towns gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullerss first published
Of Time And the River[时间与河流]
The sequel to Thomas Wolfes remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfes autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe. In a massive, ambitious, and boldly passionate novel, Wolfe examines the passing of time and the nature of the
The Sun Also Rises[太阳照样升起]
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingways masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingways most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bul
Just before the great stockmarket crash of 29, George Webber moves from a small town in North Carolina to New York City, where he writes his first novel. Folks back home are thrilled he has based his novel on life in his home town, thrilled until they actually read the novel. Angered by the frank and direct descriptions of the towns faults and mannerisms, folks back home send nasty letters and make late night phone calls, ranging from polite chastisement to death threats. The fact that his book
The Machine Stops[机器休止]
Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forsters The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, its as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images).
Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man is the story of a young black man whose name the reader never learns. He is a young man from the South who is haunted by his grandfathers deathbed warning against conforming to the wishes of white people because the young man sees that as the way to be successful. The narrators first real glimpse at the cruel manipulation of white people comes when he is invited to the local mens club to read the speech he prepared for his high school graduation. He gives the speech
Lucky Jim[幸运的吉姆]
Although Kingsley Amiss acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the four decades since it was published, its still a rewarding read. And theres no denying how big an impact it had back then--Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week That Was, and so much more. In Lucky Jim, Amis introduces us to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a British college who spends his days fending off the legio
A House for Mr.Biswas[毕斯瓦思先生之屋]
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipauls father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth centurys finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas ye
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s
Pale Fire[微暗的火/幽冥的火]
Amazon.comLike Lolita, Vladimir Nabokovs Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Heres the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists
To the Lighthouse[到灯塔去]
Woolfs beautiful, if somber, 1927 novel falls into three parts. First is a scene of a large, complex family on summer holiday before the Great War, their guests, their servants, their belongings, their style of life, and a postponed day trip to the distant lighthouse, longed for by the youngest child, James. The second section deals with what happened next, to them and to England, and the last reassembles some of the remaining characters at the scene of the first, for the lighthouse trip, so cha
Mrs. Dalloway[达罗薇夫人]
Amazon.comAs Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplanes swooping path, Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girls angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren
The Bluest Eye[最蓝的眼睛]
The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her familys frailty and the worlds cruelty.
irst published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nations peace-time optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of
