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出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：
A fabulous spy story set in Shanghai in the 1940s, translated in English for the first time to coincide with the release of the Ang Lee film. The volume includes four other stark and glamorous stories by this modern master

In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him? A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, "Lust, Caution" is accompanied here by four further dazzling short stories by Eileen Chang.

失去的遗产The inheritance of loss

作者： Kiran

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...

Who Was Martin Luther King,Jr.? 漫画名人传记：马丁·路德·金 ISBN 9780448447230

作者： Bonnie

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an advocate for the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until his death—from an assassin’s bullet—in 1968. With clearly written text that explains this tumultuous time in history and 80 black-and-white illustrations, this Who Was…? celebrates the vision and the legacy of a remarkable man.

The Brothers Karamazov

作者： Fyodor

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：

His last and greatest work

Driven by intense passion, four brothers become involved in thebrutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsomecharacters in all literature.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

作者： Mark

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：

　　This intriguing work tackles the seminal American issue ofslavery in an antebellum tragicomedy of switched identities, as afreeborn child and a slave child change places. The result is abiting social commentary-plus a good old-fashioned murdermystery...

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　　Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave whosuffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with hermaster's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracizedsmall-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is aprovocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A.Fiedler described the novel as "half melodramatic detective story,half bleak tragedy," noting that "morally, it is one of the mosthonest books in our literature." "Those Extraordinary Twins, theslapstick story that evolved into Pudd'nhead Wilson, provides afascinating view of the author's process. The text for this ModernLibrary Paperback Classic was set from the 1894 first Americanedition.

The Lost Estate

作者： Henri

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：

　　When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne,everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. Butwhen Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with talesof a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girlhidden within it, he has been changed forever. In his restlesssearch for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there,Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losingeverything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration andadult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries thereader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal ofdesperate friendship and vanished adolescence.

世界之柱 The Pillars of the Earth

作者： Follett

出版社：Penguin 2007年12月

简介：
Set in 12th-century England, the narrative concerns the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists. "Follett has written a novel that entertains, instructs and satisfies on a grand scale," judged PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.