《简・萨默斯的日记》围绕女主人公简在人生道路上的沉浮起落展开。简是一位漂亮的追求时尚的中年妇女。事业上很成功。但在感情生活上，她几乎是一位麻木的人，过着枯燥乏味的生活，直到她偶然结识了一个80岁的老人……两位女人之间从而产生了非同寻常的友谊和改变彼此人生态度的关系。

A fisherman finds the great pearl, only to lose it again. Re-issue of Steinbeck's classic.

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church. On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?" As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman -- but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. In this, his first novel, William Golding gave the traditional adventure story an ironic, devastating twist. The boys' delicate sense of order fades, and their childish fears are transformed into something deeper and more primitive. Their games take on a horrible significance, and before long the well-behaved party of schoolboys has turned into a tribe of faceless, murderous savages. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognized as a classic, one of the most celebrated of all modern novels. - See more at: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/lord-of-the-flies/9780571056866#sthash.CWBll4FV.dpuf

盖茨比不仅是美国现实生活中幻想与现实冲突的具体体现，也是美国浪漫主义英雄的化身和“美国梦”的追随者。为了追求黛西而拼命赚钱的盖茨比始终坚信“通过个人努力可以取得成功”的美国梦，但这却无法挽回黛西的爱。他毕生追求的一切最终成了泡影。黛茜是盖茨比奋斗的动力与源泉，在他的心中，她象征着上流社会一切美好的东西。但实际上，黛西和其他的上流社会的人一样，追逐财富，道德堕落，沉溺享受，内心空虚。为了自己的利益，她和汤姆合谋策划, 让盖茨比充当了她的替罪羊, 使他惨遭枪杀, 做了他们的替死鬼。 这部小说在艺术上的成就是十分杰出的, 就连曾对小说猛烈抨击的批评家门肯也不得不承认：尽管故事平庸，但文笔玲珑剔透，丝丝入扣，光彩夺目。没有陈词滥调，句子流畅通达，如行云流水，熠熠发光，又变幻无穷。显然每一行都灌注了作者的智慧和艰辛……