COLLECTED TALES & POEMS/POE(ISBN=9780679600077)
¥129.60
WOMAN IN WHITE(ISBN=9780679405634)
Hugely popular in its time, Collins's mystery-suspense novelis now largely forgotten. Its decline has been due partly to anextravagantly intricate plot (one improved by abridgment) andpartly to an equally convoluted structure. The story is toldthrough the accounts of several characters in succession. Becausethe accounts contain dialogue, listeners are treated to the unusualspectacle of hearing every character filtered through each of theothers. Such complexity would have overwhelmed anything less thanvirtuoso performances. Fortunately, both Nigel Anthony and SusanJameson rise to the occasion. Listeners will be excused inmistaking this for a full-cast dramatization, so expertlydistinguished is the multitude of voices within voices. S.J.L.(c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out ofprint or unavailable edition of this title.
¥93.20
Hunting Of The Snark, The(ISBN=9781935554240)
The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll's classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the reader on a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark. The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched in these brilliant new illustrations by artist Mahendra Singh, who has created a visual treasure hunt, full of riddles, puns, and allusions. When asked what his poem meant, Carroll would always reply that he did not know. But, on one occasion, he did write to friends that perhaps "... the whole book is an allegory on the search for happiness." "To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope, To threaten its life with a railway-share; To charm it with smiles and soap!"
¥64.50
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI(ISBN=9780375759376)
¥43.00
TURN OF SCREW AND OTHER SHORT(ISBN=9780553210590)
¥21.50
CAIRO TRILOGY, THE(ISBN=9780375413315)
¥135.90
CANTERBURY TALES(ISBN=9780679409892)
“The Canterbury Tales was written . . . during what the MiddleAges would have considered Chaucer’s old age . . . It is a quiteastonishing production . . . [He was] free to experiment withnarrative in a more audacious way, to challenge orthodoxies old andyet to be formulated, and to explore, exploit, enrich and subvertall the many available kinds of medieval story.” –from the Introduction by Derek Pearsall
¥89.60
PASSAGE TO INDIA(ISBN=9780679405498)
¥77.90
¥69.00
MY NAME IS RED(ISBN=9780375706851)
¥62.10
VANITY FAIR(ISBN=9780679405665)
¥97.20
GREAT TALES AND POEMS/POE(ISBN=9780307474773)
¥46.80
HOWARDS END(ISBN=9780679406686)
¥99.50
In Cold Blood(ISBN=9780375507908)
¥89.60
ANATOMY LESSON, THE(ISBN=9780679749028)
¥60.50
ON CHESIL BEACH(ISBN=9780307386175)
It is 1962 when Edward and Florence, 23 and 22 respectively,marry and repair to a hotel on the Dorset coast for theirhoneymoon. They are both virgins, both apprehensive about what'snext and in Florence's case, utterly and blindly terrified andrepelled by the little she knows. Through a tense dinner in theirroom, because Florence has decided that the weather is not fineenough to dine on the terrace, they are attended by two local boysacting as waiters. The cameo appearances of the boys and Edward andFlorence's parents and siblings serve only to underline theemotional isolation of the two principals. Florence says ofherself: "...she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone elsehad, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, animmediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her ownneeds and desires...."
¥54.50
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT(ISBN=9780679438847)
FromAudioFile Old Martin Chuzzlewit has a great fortune, but to whom can he leaveit? He and his likable grandson, young Martin, have fallen out.Beyond that, a tangle of sly, grasping relatives coil about him.Throughout, the reader is rooting for the gentle Tom Pinch and hislovely sister, Mary. But before all can be decided, Dickens putsboth Tom and young Martin through murder, mayhem and a briefpurgatory in the United States. Reader Davidson quickly tunes intoDickens's ferocious irony, but his paramount strength is hisuncanny ability to find and maintain the perfect voice for each ofthe vintage characters: drippy, insinuous, vicious, sly, boldAmerican backwoods, or London Cheapside. Each is a distinctcreation! Dickens lovers will treasure every tape in thistwo-volume masterpiece. P.E.F.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.(c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the AudioCassette edition. Review Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, aPBS television serie
¥77.90
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, A(ISBN=9780812968347)
¥60.50
《爱玛》是英国乡村中产阶级生活的工笔浮世绘,也是奥斯丁六部小说中*成功的一部,它以滑稽曲折的情节而独占鳌头,讲述一个任性自负的女子如何发现真爱就在身边的故事。奥斯丁笔下的女主人公大多热情聪明独立、言谈机智风趣,与现代女性心理有灵犀,处处相通。
¥77.90
BEGGAR, THE THIEF AND THE DOGS(ISBN=9780385498357) 英文原版
¥51.80
PRIDE & PREJUDICE(ISBN=9780679405429)
¥86.50
ARABIAN NIGHTS AND DAYS(ISBN=9780385469012)
¥65.00
YOUNG HEARTS CRYING(ISBN=9780307455963) 英文原版
¥69.00
Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared itan emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene toallow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolfwas moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of theseadjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To thisday it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takesboth Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It isfunny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way)suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung upin the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigatedwith relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted,tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheercommand of the English language. Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the firstquestion about any
¥142.80
INDIGNATION (EXP)(ISBN=9780307473400)
¥34.50
PLAYER PIANO(ISBN=9780385333788)
¥65.00
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS(ISBN=9780385334204)
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of hisfavorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to hishorror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth.The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war,sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America andreminds us how to see the truth.
¥65.00
ADRIFT ON THE NILE(ISBN=9780385423335) 英文原版
¥60.50
CITIES OF THE PLAIN(ISBN=9780679747192) 英文原版
¥65.00
OLIVER TWIST(ISBN=9780553211023)
¥25.80
BECH: A BOOK(ISBN=9780449004524)
¥56.00
BELOVED EMMA(ISBN=9781400075140)
¥65.00
JUDE THE OBSCURE(ISBN=9780679409939)
¥99.50
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS(ISBN=9780553213560)
¥25.80
RAINBOW, THE(ISBN=9780375759659)
¥42.80
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, THE(ISBN=9780679410034)
¥112.50
“Deeply perceptive. . . . Return[s] risk and mischief to thecontemporary American novel.” —John Irving, The New York Times BookReview “Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of theblack psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasyinto inevitability.” —New York “Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . Onebecomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The WashingtonPost “Wrenchingly good. A terrific book.” —The PhiladelphiaInquirer “Hypnotic, stunningly alive.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “That rare commodity, a truly public novel. . . . Morrison’sgenius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in theworld she creates.” —Newsweek “Powerful. . . . A stunning performance. . . . Morrison is one ofthe most exciting living American writers.” —Kansas City Star “It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships
¥54.50
EXIT GHOST (EXP)(ISBN=9780307390400)
¥34.50
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, THE(ISBN=9780812972122)
¥36.00
AMERICAN DREAM, AN(ISBN=9780375700705)
¥65.00
THE TEMPEST 暴风雨(ISBN=9780553213072)
Amazon.co.uk Review One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, formany years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, andlife with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in theMediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation ofShakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spokenby Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown",appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magicaldramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is farmore than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. Thedramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place andaction, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wickedusurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his islandretreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
¥21.50
MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, THE(ISBN=9780375759307) 英文原版
¥51.50
RABBIT REDUX(ISBN=9780449911938)
¥69.00
¥93.20
IDIOT, THE(ISBN=9780553213522)
“Nothing is outside Dostoevsky’s province. . . . Out ofShakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf
¥27.00
TWENTY FRAGMENTS/(ISBN=9780307389381) 英文原版
The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is theenchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a filmextra in hyper-modern, tumultuous Beijing. Thoughtwenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seekher fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greetsher: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city inslap-dash development, and a sexist attitude more in keeping withher peasant upbringing than the country's progressive capital. Butafter mastering the fever and tumult of the city, Fenfangultimately finds her true independence in the one place she neverexpected.
¥42.70
THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES百种神秘情感(ISBN=9780375701528) 英文原版
¥65.00
JUDE THE OBSCURE(ISBN=9780553211917)
¥22.20
CENTAUR, THE(ISBN=9780449912164) 英文原版
¥64.50
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW(驯悍记)(ISBN=9780553213065)
One of the most controversial and problematic of all ofShakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typicalElizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, agentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friendsthat "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, thenhappily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marryBianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustratedby her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is muchsubsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchiothat he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine'sprotestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, usingdeliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including ascene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to killa wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene ofKatherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband'swill, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, andtells the other wives pre
¥21.50
MOONSTONE, THE(ISBN=9780375757853)
¥39.00
MARRY ME(ISBN=9780449912157) 英文原版
¥64.50
Review “Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . Ahowl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard andbitter.” —The New York Times “Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex,friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy.”—Newsweek “In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison’s originality and poweremerge.” —The Nation “Enchanting. . . . Powerful.” —Chicago Daily News “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelistbut a major figure in our national literature.” —The New YorkReview of Books “Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works offiction I have read in some time. . . . [Morrison] is a majortalent.” —Elliot Anderson, Chicago Tribune “As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist . .. written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache.”—Playboy “In the first ranks of our living novelists.” —St. LouisPost-Dispatch “Toni Morrison’s gifts a
¥60.50
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS(ISBN=9780679405450)
"When bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived ahuman not six inches high!" When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, littledoes he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventuresawaiting him. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washesashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput-where the people areonly six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giantscalled Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! Hetravels to Laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and toGlubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. His final voyage brings himinto contact with the Yahoos-a brutish race of subhumans-and anintelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms. First published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels remains one of themost exciting fantasy adventures ever written.
¥81.50
MOONSTONE, THE(ISBN=9780679417224)
From AudioFile This seminal English mystery is presented in an unusual, butappropriate, manner, reflecting the episodic nature of the story.Three actors present the story in parts, taking on separatefirst-person accounts of events. All the voices are convincing,cultured British intonations describing the events surrounding theapparent theft of the Moonstone diamond from a country mansion.Each voice shades the various characters featured within theparticular parts, just as the narrative offers characterizations ofthe other persons without attempting an outright mimicry. Theabridgment is nicely done, too, avoiding any choppiness. D.W.(c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of printor unavailable edition of this title. Review "The first and greatest of English detective novels." --T. S. Eliot From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to theHardcover edition.
¥85.50
¥99.50
RETURN OF THE NATIVE, THE(ISBN=9780679417309)
From AudioFile Clym Yeobright, native of Egdon Heath, returns from the brightsociety of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is notsmooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he shouldnot--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhatby the ending, but more by the mastery of Alan Rickman's reading.At the start, Rickman senses the voice for each character inHardy's fictional world, and he maintains each character'spersonality throughout. He even manages to project Hardy's subtleshadings of tone with the rhythm and tempo of his narration,throwing in a song here and there because, in spite of his gloom,there is a festive strain to Hardy, as well. If you have a hardtime reading this classic English writer, this is how to do it.P.E.F. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to theAudio Cassette edition.
¥95.00
DEER PARK(ISBN=9780375700408) 英文原版
¥51.50
BREAKING CLEAN(ISBN=9780375701306)
Breathtaking. . . . Blunt's writing is visceral, yet neverwithout humor and a raw, fierce honesty. The Chicago Tribune [An] astonishing literary debut, a dramatic and heartbreakingmemoir . . . honed from difficult circumstances and crackling withenergy long pent up . . . A fascinating, ferocious coming of age.Elle Unflinching. . . . A sense of mourning underlies [Blunt's]account, and she honors the land that she still loves by making usintimate with its smallest details. The New Yorker A beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how landand her life will always be intertwined . . . Blunt's life hasfurnished her with the kind of strength most of us can only envy.The San Francisco Chronicle Staunch and unblinking, with sentences as strong and upright aswell-tended fenceposts. A valuable addition to the literature ofplace and the literature of passage. The Washington Post Riveting . . . This masterful debut is utterly strange,suspenseful and surprisinga story whose threads connecting past andprese
¥65.00
OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS(ISBN=9781400034925)
Brilliantly moving. A tour de force A.S. Byatt
¥56.00