It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky—her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers. The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during the wartime and period of political turmoil in China, passing through many troubles, and he has had a very distinguished career. He is Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature. This delightful memoir of Yang Xianyi gives a candid and entertaining account of himself as a lighthearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. But it is also the illuminating self-portrait of a deeply patriotic intellectual living in a China under the throes of change, giving rare insight into the survival of a courageous, witty and principled individual during the harsh century of Chinese liberation.

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, "Dreams from My Father" is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.

《舞者之歌:邓肯自传》中邓肯，一位举世闻名的舞蹈天才，她摒弃古典芭蕾的严苛性，主张以自由流畅的方式呈现舞蹈，据此创立了自成一格的全新的舞蹈模式，从而成为现代舞的先驱。邓肯，一位浪漫又多情的现代女性，她藐视婚姻，特立独行，曾与多位世界著名的艺术家相知相恋，谱下一曲曲令人荡气回肠的情爱之歌。 　　双肯，一位历经创痛的坚强母亲，先后遭受一双活泼可爱的儿女和刚刚出生的儿子三个孩子离她而去的重创，饱受思念骨肉亲情之苦，几度绝望又几度重生。

本书是作者晚年的作品，表现了他一贯的行文风格，豪放坦率、淋淳痛快、言人的不敢言。作为一个很有才华、思想开朗、坚决反对封建和极权传统的作家，他和他这本自传都曾受到过不公正的待遇。由于作家在撰写时极为坦诚直率，本书这部不同寻常的自传体作品不幸沦为禁书。更不幸的是，来巴黎的观光客只是怀着猎奇的心理把它作为一本纯色情读物来看。