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作者 : 萨尔曼·拉什迪
Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's most highly regarded work of fiction, though not his best known. That distinction belongs to The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel that prompted Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who considered the book blasphemous, to declare Rushdie an enemy of Islam and put a $1.5 million bounty on his head. But in Midnight's Children, Rushdie had already produced a novel that not only risks offending some readers, but also fiercely challenges our understanding of history, nationhood, and narrative.
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作者 : 里查德·道金斯
本书宛如一本有趣的推理小说，作者藉亲切、生动的文字，解析生活中触目可及的生物竞争与合作实例；并透过运动、赌博性游戏，让读者深入了解「利他」与「自私」两种生物本质。绵延数十亿年的生命长河，几多物种浮沉、来去，该如何延续「人类」的命脉，本书将可提供不少省思。
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The Bloody chamber And Other Stories
作者 : 安吉拉·卡特
Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, which received the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, retells classic fairy tales. Angela Carter revises Puss-in-Boots and Sleeping Beauty, for example, from an adult, twentieth-century perspective. Her renditions are intended to disturb and titillate her audience, instead of lulling it to sleep. The title story recasts the legend of Bluebeard, the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man. Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in the house. This keyring includes one key that she must not use: the one to the room at the end of the great gallery. Of course, she eventually enters the room forbidden to her. In it she finds the corpses of her husband's previous wives, all with their throats cut. Startled, the girl drops the key, which is enchanted and permanently stained by the blood on the floor. From this stain, Bluebeard discovers her disobedience. He raises his scimitar, but just in time, her brothers arrive to slay the murderer.Though it follows the original tale in basic structure, The Bloody Chamber adds details of character and setting that raise issues of sexual awakening and sexual depravity, of the will to live, and of life in hell. In having the young bride be the one to tell her story and in having her courageous mother come to the rescue, moreover, Carter revisits an age-old tale with her feminist viewpoint.
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作者 : 周汝昌
作者自云：绛楼十二，编成付梓，旧文重理，新作偶添，裒然成帙，亦自可存。这可以提供一面镜子，从中照见我这多年来研治红学的轨迹、得失、拓路、升阶。红学大师周汝昌先生集毕生研究之心血，终成红学巨著《红楼十二层》。本书从《红楼》文化、《红楼》本旨、《红楼》女儿、《红楼》灵秀、《红楼》审美、《红楼》自况、《红楼》脂砚、《红楼》探佚、《红楼》真本、《红楼》索引、《红楼》解疑、《红楼》答问等全方位探寻了《红楼梦》的种种悬案，给沉冤文海二百数十年的雪芹平反，还原历史真相。闪电般的灵感和严密的考证中，沿续着中华文化的一脉心香，雅人深致，引人入胜。
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作者 : 弗兰克·鲍姆
L. Frank Baum never imagined the impact The Wonderful Wizard of Oz would have on children's writing or the appeal the book would have to generations of readers. Although he wrote numerous books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is easily his most enduring. Baum wanted to write a fairy tale that was American, not European, although he introduced elements of traditional European fairy tales (witches, castles, forests) into the story. By presenting a female protagonist, casual language, characters such as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and settings such as Kansas, Baum created a new approach to children's writing that is distinctly American.Before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children's books were stilted morality tales designed to instruct or to frighten readers into behaving properly. Baum, however, presented a thrilling adventure from a child's point of view, showing the child's ability to solve her own problems and return to the security of her home.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz received praise from critics and readers alike. Critics applauded Baum's simple storytelling, his message, and his imaginative, believable characters. Readers fell in love with the wonders of Oz and demanded more books about this enchanted land. Although the book did not win any awards during Baum's lifetime, it was given the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1968.
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作者 : 玛雅·盎格鲁
Maya Angelou是美国文坛最耀眼的黑人女作家和诗人，成名作是一部名为I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings的自传体小说。1993年她在美国总统Bill Clinton的就职仪式上特邀朗诵献诗On the Pulse of the Morning，从而成为美国历史上继Robert Frost之后的官方诗人。Still I Rise是Maya Angelou的诗歌代表作，是继Martin Luther King的I Have a Dream之后美国黑人争取民权的又一纪念碑式的作品。Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. Being a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom. A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. She has the unique ability to shatter the opaque prisms of race and class between reader and subject throughout her books of poetry and her autobiographies. Dr. Angelou has authored twelve best-selling books including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Song Flung Up to Heaven and Even the Stars Look Lonesome In 1981, Dr. Angelou was appointed to a lifetime position as the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. In January 1993, she became only the second poet in U.S. History to have the honor of writing and reciting original work at the Presidential Inauguration.
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作者 : 余杰
余杰在《香草山》里向我们讲述的不仅是一个纯美的爱情故事，也不仅是一段纯粹的精神体验，而是每一个渴望爱情与获得自由灵魂者所要经历的，正在经历的朝圣之旅。要爱，就是选择自己的香草山，保持自己灵魂深处的牛奶般的纯净，阳光般的明媚，细草般的清丽。说起香草山，最让人回味并且能够藏在记忆深处的就是《圣经》上一句著名的诗意的语言：我的良人哪，求你快来，如羚羊或小鹿在香草山上。(旧约.雅歌)香草山像伊甸园一样，充满着纯真、幸福、罪孽和苦难的地方。它既是一个不可抵达的彼岸世界，也隐喻着我们所生存的现实世界。香草山上有香草，有羊群，还有牧羊人。如果一个人在遇到挫折和困惑时，他便可以来到香草山寻求慰藉，而这片神奇的土地将会给予他一次又一次奋起与追求爱情、自由灵魂以及幸福生活的力量。香草山》是余杰的唯一一本爱情小说，而且是自传体爱情小说，书中的男女主人公廷生、宁萱从不相识到相识，从一般朋友一步跨越到亲密恋人，自是有很多浪漫和传奇色彩。但是，作者并不是要刻意自己的恋爱生涯，而是在诠释我们为什么爱，为什么我们爱的背后不仅仅是甜蜜，而且还有无尽的叹息和受苦、奋斗、不可战胜的渴望实现人生价值的自由灵魂。我想说：通过余杰在书中所坚持的追求自由灵魂的立场、爱的毫无保留，不难发现，余杰的新书留给读者的将是这样一个深刻而且需要直面的问题：你愿不愿意把它作为一面镜子，照一照自己内心深处的灵魂？
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作者 : 钱穆
本书为作者1948年徜佯于湖光胜景中闲思遐想的结晶，分别就人类精神和文化领域诸多或具体或抽象的相对命题。如情与欲、理与气、善与恶等作了灵动，细腻而深刻的分析与阐发，从二元对立的视角思索了人类存在的基本问题。全书言浅意深，语重心长，既见出史家的沈潜与细密，又见出哲人的深邃和文学家的灵透与光彩、显示了作者多样的才华。
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作者 : 列夫·托尔斯泰
托尔斯泰卷秩浩繁的长篇小说。场面浩大，人物繁多，被称为世界上最伟大的小说，成就非凡。《战争与和平》问世至今，一直被人称为世界上最伟大的小说。这部卷帙浩繁的巨著以史诗般广阔与雄浑的气势，生动地描写了1805至1820年俄国社会的重大历史事件和各个生活领域：近千个人物，无数的场景，国家和私人生活的一切可能的领域，历史，战争，人间一切惨剧，各种情欲，人生各个阶段，从婴儿降临人间的啼声到气息奄奄的老人的感情最后迸发，人所能感受到的一切欢乐和痛苦，各种可能的内心思绪，从窃取自己同伴的钱币的小偷的感觉，到英雄主义的最崇高的冲动和领悟透彻的沉思— —在这幅画里都应有尽有。（斯特拉霍夫语）作家对生活的大面积涵盖和整体把握，对个别现象与事物整体、个人命运与周围世界的内在联系的充分揭示，使这部小说具有极大的思想和艺术容量。这是托尔斯泰创作的第一部卷秩浩繁的长篇小说。作者把战争与和平，前线与后方、国内与国外、军队与社会、上层与下层连结起来，既全面反映了时代风貌，又为各式各样的典型人物创造了极广阔的典型环境。
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作者 : 董桥
本书是董桥散文，其中包括《秋园杂卉小识》、《说品味》、《听那立体的乡愁》、《读园林》、《凯恩斯的手》、《镜子里的展望》、《暮鸦·归燕·古树》、《回去，是为了过去！》、《给女儿的信》、《寻根》、《王韬的心情》等几篇散文。
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