The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck /
Penguin Classics /
2006-03-27 /
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Book Description Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, The Grapes of Wrath is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again. Book Dimension length: (cm)18.8 width:(cm)13.2
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee /
Harper Perennial Modern Classics /
2006-05-31 /
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell /
Scribner /
2007-07-09 /
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Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley /
HarperPerennial /
2008-04-30 /
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers, repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic. Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out. In 'A Thousand Acres', Jane Smiley transposes the 'King Lear' story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
殺人時計館
綾辻行人 /
皇冠文化 /
1990-01-01 /
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『這本推理小說真厲害！』1992年度TOP 20！ 周刊文春年度十大推理小說！偵探小說研究會本格推理BEST 100！ 【日本推理小說之神】島田莊司‧【日本的艾勒里昆恩】有栖川有栖◎專文推薦 【推理評論家】傅博◎系列導讀 【推理評論家】杜鵑窩人◎本書導讀 李昂·既晴·楊照◎三大名家聯合推薦 李昂：『《殺人時計館》的密室連環殺人好看，但真正深刻打動我的心的是真相大白時，發現可以為了一份痴迷的愛，做了如此全然料想不到的創舉。』 既晴：『《殺人時計館》彷彿總令人感覺身處靜謐甚至凝凍的空氣中，耳邊不停傳來細微卻擾動神經的鐘錶齒輪聲，眼前霎然出現了造型怪誕、構造複雜的異度空間一般。』 楊照：『綾辻行人直接面對時間的挑戰，構畫了一套近乎不可思議的時間騙局，看透了時間的人，想要用時間來瞞騙命運。這樣艱難卻又有趣的主題，在綾?行人筆下寫活了。』 杜鵑窩人：『這本書中既有「暴風雨山莊」、「敘述性詭計」、「不在場證明」、「密室殺人」、「不可能的殺人」，又有「機械性密室」和「迷宮」等等各式各樣的推理詭計和場景設計來「招待」這本小說的讀者。』 滴……答……鮮血隨著指針流淌，誰在倒數計時？ 噹……噹……千萬次的復仇鐘響，一個也別想逃！ 位於鐮倉秘境、收藏了上百個古鐘的時計館是鐘錶製造商會的總裁所擁有。傳說十年前總裁獨生女自殺後，她的幽魂還常徘徊在館中無指針的鐘塔！ 介紹心靈感應、超人能力的『混沌』雜誌籌備一項計畫：向時計館的亡魂挑戰！於是雜誌編輯江南，帶著攝影記者，還有推理研究會的幾名學生，找來了極富盛名的美女招魂師光明寺，去探訪這棟詭異的建築物。 沒想到第一次招魂會後光明寺就失蹤了！在大家的猜測聲中，恐懼不已而躲回房間的推理會員早紀子，忽然想起十年前遇見的美少女，難道就是館主的女兒嗎？但她無法再繼續想下去了──因為有一個黑影拿著沉重的座鐘，高高地舉起兩隻手臂，朝她臉上砸了下來……