Annotation: For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...

重温大师经典，漫步旧时光。 编辑推荐本丛书从老舍、林徽因、邹韬奋、朱湘......等现代名家的经典作品中精选了适合中小学生阅读的篇目，在文章的题材上，多侧重于作者的生活经历、对亲人、朋友、生活过的地方的回忆、年少成长中的感悟体会等。经典的文字描述着那个时代的故事，精美的插图也再现了当时的场景，帮助小读者更好地理解作品的时代背景，领会作者所表达的情感和思绪。内容简介《一片阳光》为林徽因作品的选集，精选出适合青少年学生阅读的经典作品，包括散文、小说和书信。配以精美彩色插图，图文并茂地再现那个时代的场景，包括《一片阳光》、《山西通信》、《窗子以外》、《悼志摩》、《模影零篇》等文章。作为一位杰出的建筑师，在从事建筑研究之余，林徽因陆续发表过诗歌、散文、小说、戏剧、文学评论等作品，她的作品多以个人的情绪、情感为主题，探索生活和爱的哲理，语言典雅委婉，韵律流畅自然，常常在文学中融入音乐之美和建筑之美，具有独特的艺术感染力。作者简介林徽因（1904—1955），原名徽音，福建闽县（今福州）人，出生于浙江杭州。中国现代著名建筑师、诗人、作家，民国时期著名才女之一。她的作品多以个人的情绪、情感为主题，探索生活和爱的哲理，语言典雅委婉，韵律流畅自然，常常在文学中融入音乐之美和建筑之美，具有独特的艺术感染力。名人推荐林徽因是在中国的文艺复兴时期脱颖而出的一位多才多艺的人。她在建筑学方面的成绩，无疑是主要的，然而在诗歌、小说、散文、戏剧等方面，也都有所建树。——翻译家

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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!

Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete novel.

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Handsome son of an old, eminent Jewish family of Jerusalem, Ben-Hur is betrayed by his best friend, Messala. Condemned to life as a galley slave, the future looks dismal, but Providence opens a way of escape and promises a bright, new future. As a free man, Ben-Hur gets his chance for revenge and reclaims the honor of his family name. Love fills his life, but hate still boils in his breast.

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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...

Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London, has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful Lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.