英国
Providence Douban Goodreads
author:
Brookner, Anita
publishing house:
Random House Inc
1994
- 1
This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful," to any number of others.
Space in Mind Douban
author:
John H. Crook
/
David Fontana
publishing house:
Shaftesbury : Element
1990
1984 Douban
Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith’s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Bookshop Douban
author:
Penelope Fitzgerald
publishing house:
Mariner Books
1997
- 9
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
The Remains of the Day Douban
8.9 (34 ratings)
author:
[英] 石黑一雄
publishing house:
Vintage International
1990
- 9
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
牛虻 Douban
The Gadfly
author:
艾·丽·伏尼契
translator:
司人译
/
雨辰校译
1991
- 11
出版说明
《牛虻》是英国(籍)女作家艾·伏尼契的代表作,当这部长篇小说于一九五三年首次译成中文出版后,在我国广大青年读者中引起了很大的反响,受到了热忱的欢迎与赞誉,无怪乎伟大的无产阶级文学巨匠高尔基对这部小说中的爱国精神与革命活力给予了很高的评价。
今天,本着繁荣文学翻译事业的精神,更为了满足新一代青年读者的渴求,我们特请了姜亦箴、王振国、赵清智、梁玉琦及田庆轩同志对《牛虻》版本作了新译,并聘请雨辰先生拨冗审校,为文学译苑添上一部新的版本,以飨读者,以期指正。
花山文艺出版社
一九九一年元月
《牛虻》是英国(籍)女作家艾·伏尼契的代表作,当这部长篇小说于一九五三年首次译成中文出版后,在我国广大青年读者中引起了很大的反响,受到了热忱的欢迎与赞誉,无怪乎伟大的无产阶级文学巨匠高尔基对这部小说中的爱国精神与革命活力给予了很高的评价。
今天,本着繁荣文学翻译事业的精神,更为了满足新一代青年读者的渴求,我们特请了姜亦箴、王振国、赵清智、梁玉琦及田庆轩同志对《牛虻》版本作了新译,并聘请雨辰先生拨冗审校,为文学译苑添上一部新的版本,以飨读者,以期指正。
花山文艺出版社
一九九一年元月
The Heart of the Matter Douban
With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
The Power and the Glory Douban Goodreads
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
Animal Farm and 1984 Douban
author:
乔治·奥威尔
/
Christopher Hitchens (Introduction)
publishing house:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
2003
- 6
ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . .
1984
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . .
1984
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.