本書收錄四則中篇小說：〈餘震〉、〈阿喜上學〉、〈向北方〉、〈花事了〉。 〈餘震〉為馮小剛導演、電影《唐山大地震》原著小說。 1976年7月唐山發生大地震，二三十萬人傷亡，數千家庭破碎。講述了一個唐山普通家庭在震後30年間的悲歡離合，描寫當中的親情和家庭觀念，以及經歷者內心的創痛。天災發生時，人性會被逼到極限，受災者外在、內心兩方受創。傷害不僅是在災難發生的瞬間，也會伴隨著那些活下來的人，和他們日後的生活當中發酵。毀壞的房子可以重建，但內心的重建卻不容易。幾十年過去，心靈深處的廢墟和餘震卻可能持續存在。然而親情的力量最能撫平療癒這樣深刻的傷痛。 〈阿喜上學〉清末，金山唐人街幾乎清一色的男人群裡，開始出現了少數幾個年輕女子。她們飄洋過海來到金山，或為人妻，或為人婢，後來由於各樣的因緣際遇，進入了當地的公立學堂，與白人的孩子們一起接受教育。在大英帝國體制下...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legenda...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China. In the spirit of...(展开全部)

Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China. In the spirit of...(展开全部)

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraor...(展开全部)

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraor...(展开全部)

《The Bell Jar》为美国著名女作家西尔维娅·普拉斯代表作。 该小说记录了埃丝特·格林伍德（Esther Greenwood）的崩溃过程：她才华横溢、美丽动人、天赋异禀、事业有成，但却慢慢走向崩溃——也许是最后一次崩溃。西尔维娅·普拉斯巧妙地将读者带入埃丝特的精神崩溃之中，使埃丝特的精神错乱变得完全真实，甚至合理，就像看电影一样容易接受。如此深入地揭示心理的阴暗角落，是一项非凡的成就，也使该小说成为美国文学经典。