第1章 e-Introduction

Fans of fractured fairy tales will be delighted to discover the fantasy, mystery, adventure, and humor in the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, now with new cover art. The nine wildly popular books are favorites around the world. They were among the first books to bring a distinctly girl-power spin to fairy tales—a trend followed by hit television series and movies such as Grimm and Maleficent; the bestselling book series the Land of Stories; and more. Now, books one through six in this smash-hit series appear with new covers, with books seven, eight, and nine available as revised editions soon.

This short novel that is told with almost fable-like simplicity: Matt Harper is a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp when he witnesses a casual brutality that leads to murder. The bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who has "reduced Camp Pleasant to a microcosm of the Third Reich") is portrayed as one stereotype that the reader is not sorry to see killed off. Instead, all of our sympathy is reserved for the possible suspects: Merv Loomis, the homosexual counselor Nolan humiliates into quitting; the troubled ten-year-old Tony Rocca; Nolan's meek wife, Ellen; and several others. The setting and tone have the distinct feel of the early 1950s, but a casual reference to actress Catherine Deneuve places the action in the mid-60s or later.

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Keith Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries which has recovered an alien ship. As a result, Jo's company now controls the incredible wealth of technology aboard the ship as well as the fortune it reaps in - not to mention control of Keith Stoner.What Camerata does not know, however, is that someone else has been awake, someone who dwells deep within the recesses of Stoner's mind. The alienate presence that has kept Stoner alive for so long is now free and fully intends to explore our world and will let nothing stand in its way.

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself." One of the high points of literary fiction in 2005, this critically acclaimed story found a vast audience and is finally available in paperback.

帝都人都知道陆北深养了一只猫，也都知道他对这只猫过敏，但这只猫是她养的，所以每天吃过敏药也要养着猫，只为了有一天她回来的时候猫还在。……某天，陆北深抱着一个女人回璞园，众人惊掉了下巴，宗奇战战兢兢的问：“总裁，这位小姐是？”陆北深目光温和，略起薄唇：“我的猫。”

一个饿死鬼投了胎，一次家族聚会上，知道自己有个叫“祝英台”的堂姐。一次求学认识了梁山伯，马文才等人。这是“梁祝”？不，不，这是架空。初见她以为这真的是“梁祝”，没办法，这里发生的一些事，让她只能这样想。本来她觉得只要在尼山书院好好学习，待到学成之后，她回家做一个小夫子就很满足了。可是这悲剧真的上演，她，可以不管吗？此文纯属作者脑补，“梁祝”爱好者勿喷，请各位做好入坑准备，跳不跳坑随你。

乱世纷争，武夫自当如何？唐斩，是个靠刀生，靠刀活的人！那个雪夜他一人一刀斩杀百人，世人皆知百人斩。他，是一只无情鬼。直到，那小女孩的出现。他，又变成了人！不过，随之而来的，还有无数的麻烦。什么宝藏，什么长生！唐斩，一样也不想要！

诗歌的批评，也许就存在于对批评的“对立面”确立的过程之中，这是人们对诗歌批评“独特性”的一种常见的理解。孙绍振当时就意识到了这一问题的“严重性”：“没有对权威和传统挑战甚至亵渎的勇气，思想解放就是一句奢侈性的空话。在当艺术革新潮流开始的时候，传统、群众和革新者往往有一个互相摩擦、甚至互相折磨的阶段。”

人的一生中能有几回，曾经的伴侣再次相见，尘封的童年记忆忽然惊醒，年迈双亲像婴儿一般被子女照料？《爱的进程》的11个短篇中，门罗将目光投向普通人生活中最为私密的角落，聚焦于恋人、夫妻、手足、亲子之间难解难分的郁结和爱。作家的叙述尖锐而富于同情，记录了生命不同阶段中，人的自我、抉择以及对爱的体验是如何悄悄地转变。《爱的进程》发表于1986年，令门罗第三次斩获加拿大最高文学奖——总督文学奖。

是有多么愚蠢多么执迷不悟才会被现实蒙蔽了双眼，是有多么善良多么单纯简单才会被世事感动了眼眸。但愿现在把曾经深爱的人从心里划去还不算太晚，亲爱的灵熙，与你有生之年，狭路相逢。

小说通过描述一家三代人之间的感情纷争，来表述亲子，爱恨之痛。感情的纠葛，在情义之中的轻重，如酒之魂让人迷醉。通篇以酒言情，言人生，言不能言语的悲痛和愤慨。在现实生活中的难分难解，诉说人生历程中的那些不堪回首的曾经，以及灯火颓靡的现实生活，自然而然地将人带入到醉与醒的边缘，撩起现实社会的痛。

在残酷的末日世界，是成为猎物还是成为猎人？

百花盛开，群芳争艳，再美景色不及她嫣然一笑。一位冷若冰霜，一位热情如火，爱恨情仇之间，主角快意恩仇，仗剑天涯，执剑为红颜。

他29岁，风华正茂；她35岁，徐娘半老，私企的富二代，他花心、风流、极致出格。具有所有有钱人身上张扬着的缺点。国企的小职员，她谨慎、小心、在国企机关中每走一步皆如履薄冰，活得简单、通透、却也无色无味。无论身边有多少纷争，她仿佛置身事外，任它电闪雷鸣，我自云淡风轻。不愿意去争太多，太懒；不愿意去抢太多，嫌烦。清雅自我，却也不乏心计。名不见经传、色不见卓绝、品不见圈点的她，如何征服花心大少？