This spare, elegant, best-selling memoir by a celebrated French journalist and writer has been impeccably translated into English by Sydney-born Julie Rose. The tale it tells is a deeply moving tribute to a much-loved woman, the author's British-born wife, lover and constant companion for 58 years. He wrote it for her alone, without thought of publication, after a routine back ...(展开全部)

方士清不想當零， 卻被一個戴著南瓜面具的男人搞了一次，接著兩人又再好上了第二次。 身體實在太過合拍，方士清有點喜歡上看不見模樣的男人了。 卻怎麼也想不到被他逼著摘下面具的男人，居然是他的姐夫王齊！！ 不，應該說是前姐夫了…… 自從意識到自己暗戀著姐夫的方士清，躲躲藏藏了好幾年， 沒想到還是栽了，他壓根兒不想談這麼複雜的感情呀……

方士清快被王齊搞瘋了！ 王齊裡裡外外就是個霸道總裁樣版， 不但強上了他，奪得他的心，接下來又想和他公開關係…… 方士清就是個鴕鳥屬性，只想把頭埋在土裡瑟瑟發抖，壓根兒沒膽量出櫃。 兩人折騰來折騰去，方士清被虐心虐得死去活來日漸消瘦， 王齊終究不忍心，最後願意退讓一步和他做地下情人， 但，似乎來不及了…… 小駝鳥方士清一不小心、糊裡糊塗地對家裡出了櫃了……

''The Assistant,'' his second novel, and the one many critics consider his best, was published in 1957. Set in the Depression, it tells of a Jewish grocery-store owner and his Italian assistant, and it, too, is much like a morality play.

''The Assistant,'' his second novel, and the one many critics consider his best, was published in 1957. Set in the Depression, it tells of a Jewish grocery-store owner and his Italian assistant, and it, too, is much like a morality play.

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk. "From the Paperback...(展开全部)

Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external conven...(展开全部)

Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley, but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire's assistant. Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lo...(展开全部)

The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.

[美]艾莉森•卢里（Alison Lurie，1926— ） 康奈尔大学英国文学教授，1985年凭借小说《外交事务》获得普利策奖。她是60年代崛起的女作家群中的一位佼佼者，被文学评论家评价为睿智过人的“社会风俗”小说家。她的作品多是世态喜剧,重点探讨美国中产阶级的社会生活，对知识分子生活世界的探讨尤为深入细致。