*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。In 1831 Goethe called Daphnis and Chloe 'a masterpiece ... in which Understanding, Art, and Taste appear at their highest point, and beside which the
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。In January 1836, two sisters, Eleanor and Harriet, set sail for India, leaving their home in England to accompany their brother, Henry, on his posting as Governor-Gene
In Society Must Be Defended Michael Foucault, one of the twentieth century's most radical thinkers, offers a devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization. He revea
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)When Tamzin goes to stay with her grandmother in Cornwall, she is drawn towards a small grey statue of a grey horse, kept in a cabinet for safe-keeping. One day she acciden
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製In the run-up to the Spanish Civil War, the Communist agitator Percy Hardcaster is wounded escaping from prison in Andalusia. He returns to London to acclaim and adorat
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from the first edition
Henry James, author of such classics of fiction as A PORTRAIT OF A LADY and THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, remains one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. Born in 1843 in New York, he moved to
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator’s memories of Pari
Two girls went travelling in search of adventure, in search of 'real life'. Only one came back ... A chilling, gripping novel about the backpacking holiday of a lifetime with utterly devastating and u
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his cont
Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Shows how the truth about our ancestors is hidden in our genetic code. This book reveals how developments in the science of population genetics have made it possible t
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit london road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the si
Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.View our feature on Jane Austen. Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfie
Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendo
Paul Ginsborg’s bestselling account of contemporary Italy chronicles this most recent and dynamic period in the country’s history. He examines the role of the family in Italian society and economy (a
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did? What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of the Fuhrer? This titl
R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative a
George Orwell's first novel, inspired by his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Burmese Days includes a new introduction by Emma Larkin in Penguin Modern Classics. Based on his experi
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison of
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to ret
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)A great new collection of poetry, wide-ranging in both form and subject matter. Full of Brian Patten's wonderful wit and moments of beauty as in GERANIUMS IN THE SNOW: Like
The final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who started in the first of the Niccolo series as an 18-year-old apprentice. Now in his 30s, his flair for numbers means he could find a place almost anywhe
Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stori
In the sphere of poets like Swift, Meredith and Kipling, Thomas Hardy is today becoming recognized as one of the greatest English poets of this century. As a young man with interests in journalism, ar
In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex, a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so-cal
These short stories, written over several years and first published together in 1938, are set in Steinbeck's birthplace, the rolling Salinas Valley in California, a land of farms, ranches, sunny hills
The Mitrokhin Archive tells for the first time in full the startling story of Soviet attempts to infiltrate the West. Working from Vasili Mitrokhin's archive and his own unrivalled expertise in the hi
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The financial and social crisis in Greece has deep roots in the country's society and history. In this new Penguin Short, the leading Balkan commentator and Oxford U
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent inv
In 1461, the mysterious enigmatic Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing f
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last wee
Francis Crawford of Lymond, and outlawed rebel, is in Edinburgh again ...and his arrival in Scotland ignites a series of explosive events. Against a background of political intrigue and violence, Lymo
Based on the award-winning Radio 4 programs "This Sceptred Isle" tells the fascinating story of British history from Caesar's invasion in 55 BC to Queen Victoria's death in 1901. Using extracts from W
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Sex with an older man, parents who don't understand, politics in the playground, blowjobs behind the bike-sheds, skinning up in the schoolyard. It's what happens when
Interest in world music is at its peak. Listening to non-Western music in concerts and on radio, television, and CDs has become an important part of our musical experience, yet the general tendency is
The pleasures of Victorian poetry lie in its multitude of lyric and dramatic voices and, above all, in its rhythmic power and subtlety. Nowhere else can these reading pleasures be better enjoyed than
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)A collection of 20 extremely short stories for intermediate students in English, covering a wide variety of genre from comedy to adventure and set in countries such as Chin
