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The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit. Vernon God Little is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read--Pierre's prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero--but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass "learnings" give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character.

保尔在幼年便饱偿了人间的心酸，目睹了腐朽的旧社会底层人民的困苦。他被严酷的瓦西里神甫赶出学校后，迫于生活压力来到车站食堂打工。在那里，他目睹了堂倌们的的丑恶嘴脸，腐朽社会里的不平等与劳动人民的悲惨境遇，这使他萌发了打破资产阶级社会黑暗的愿望。在革命的风暴到来时，他义无反顾地参加了红军，加入了布琼尼的骑兵旅与波兰侵略者展开了战斗。在战场上是个敢于冲锋陷阵的战士和优秀的政治宣传员。保尔希望冬妮娅能和自己站在同一战线上，却被她回绝，保尔便离开了冬妮娅。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，病情急剧恶化，但他以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。在海滨疗养时，他偶然认识了女民工达雅并相爱。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”。不幸的是，唯一的手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。保尔一度灰心丧气，在母亲和妻子的帮助下，他用生命写成的小说《暴风雨所诞生的》终于出版了。

Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. Contents: Maruja; the stories from Drift From Two Shores and By Shore and Sedge; and Thankful Blossom. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Master Mind of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the sixth of his famous Barsoom series. It was first published in the magazine Amazing Stories Annual vol. 1, July 15, 1927. The first book edition was published by A. C. McClurg in March, 1928.

Doctor Marigold is a poor hawker

许多生活潦倒的作家一样，莫特·雷尼(强尼·戴普 饰)也走进了自己人生中最可怕的时候，相爱几十年的妻子爱上了别的男人要离开自己，正在创作的小说灵感顿失，曾经繁华潇洒的笔也变得枯涩。 雷尼努力想从妻子艾米(玛莉亚·贝洛 饰)离开的悲痛中走出来，却想不到她并不想善罢干休，与她现在的男友(查理斯·特顿 饰)勾结起来要害苦雷尼。律师更是纠缠不清，眼看着自己陷进了可怕的离婚案中，雷尼感到了从未有过的失落。 离开这座伤心的城市，来到自己的湖畔木屋，雷尼想忘记世俗烦人的一切......

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第七十四届饥饿游戏即将开始。抽签日那天，凯特尼斯的人生彻底改变，她代替被抽中签的妹妹参加比赛，成为竞技场上的一名“贡品”。竞技场是经过人工布置的森林、荒原。竞赛中，猎杀、追踪、饥饿、伪装、智斗等生死存亡的时刻，都被电视现场直播到全国，每个人都必须观看，而且要当成节日一样庆祝。对于凯匹特，这是年度盛会，是一场游戏；对于其他十二区，则是羞辱和折磨。24个“贡品”参加竞赛，只有一人能够存活。在竞技场上，凯特尼斯机缘巧合被塑造成“燃烧的女孩”，与本区的另一个“贡品”皮塔组成“明星恋人”备受瞩目。她很困惑自己与皮塔的关系，她企图拯救其他竞赛者的生命，机智地应对游戏中出现的谜题，使她成了电视观众关注的中心。生死关头，她才发现爱情竟然也可以成为赢的策略。凯特尼斯拒绝向游戏规则屈服，拒绝向死亡屈服，也拒绝向爱情屈服。她的拒绝会带来什么，未来又会怎样呢？