九九藏書

本書主要概述了數學所涉及的領域和範疇。我並不認為這本書包羅萬象，然而它選擇的主題很離奇，但它也只能如此。數學是世間每所大學都從事研究的一門學科，它至少像生物學一樣有廣泛的領域，在生物界中，某個研究人員正努力研究艾滋病毒，而另一個研究人員則在研究袋熊的社會化問題。……

這部小說乃是以法老拉美西斯二世時期為背景，這也是埃及歷史上最光輝燦爛的時期之一。埃及既為世界文明之燈塔，自然擁有極為可觀的資源，歷代以來更留下了許多偉大的建築，例如卡納克神廟的柱子大廳，或是位於努比亞、為了紀念法老與皇后奈菲爾塔莉的結合所建造的阿布辛伯雙重神廟、都是最佳例證。

埃及無論是精神上或物質上的蓬勃發展，皆源自於對瑪特的尊敬；瑪特不僅是女神，也是一個概念，這個概念闡述了宇宙永恆的和諧、不分貧賤富貴的司法正義，還有每個人必須秉待正直不變的原則，方能掌穩人生的舵槳渡過生命之河。

金宇塔文獻中寫道：天上的光因法老而呈現和諧，而為法老帶來和諧的則是瑪待，它是法老眼中所見、耳中所聞。拉美西斯的父親塞提一世所建的卡奈神廟中，有一句銘文是這麼寫的司法正義是法老的力量。

事實上，在埃及人民的眼中，社會和諧民生樂利都建築在最寶貴的司法之上，然而這項為人民求福扯的制度卻也十分脆弱，因為總有一些人為達目的的不擇手段，不惜以貪婪的慾望、野心與謊言戕害司法。

《埃及三部曲》所描述的便是一個鄉下小法官的故事。

克里斯提昂·賈克，一九四七年生於法國巴黎。畢業於巴黎索爾邦大學，是一位埃及歷史博士、教授及小說家。 在他十三歲那年，一本有關埃及文明史的書籍正式開啟了賈克對古文明的熱愛。十七歲第一次造訪埃及，他不但深深愛上了這個國度，甚至認為自己有著像是在外漂流數載，終歸故里的感受。也因此造就了他在回法後繼續深造，取得了埃及歷史博士學位。 法國文壇認為他的文學地位，可與大、小仲馬並駕其驅，他寫小說的功力可見其高深。

克里斯提昂·賈克，一九四七年生於法國巴黎。畢業於巴黎索爾邦大學，是一位埃及歷史博士、教授及小說家。 在他十三歲那年，一本有關埃及文明史的書籍正式開啟了賈克對古文明的熱愛。十七歲第一次造訪埃及，他不但深深愛上了這個國度，甚至認為自己有著像是在外漂流數載，終歸故里的感受。也因此造就了他在回法後繼續深造，取得了埃及歷史博士學位。 法國文壇認為他的文學地位，可與大、小仲馬並駕其驅，他寫小說的功力可見其高深。

1990年，中東火藥庫被引爆，戰爭硝煙瀰漫海灣，並迅爾演變為20世紀僅次於第一、第二次世界大戰的海灣戰爭。遠離冷兵器的現代戰爭，少了蕩氣迴腸萬人衝殺的壯烈，多了瞬間殞命變幻莫測的神秘，禁飛、戒嚴、封鎖、大規模殺傷性武器……文明戰爭造就的是人間地獄——精神肉體雙重摺磨中的無可逃遁。

我不下地獄，誰下地獄，新華社攝影記者唐師曾主動請纓，獨自潛入伊拉克。孤膽英雄憑藉北大國際政治系的學養修鍊，憑藉多年對時事的關注和特有的新聞敏感，穿梭交戰雙方，鬥智斗勇，發出一張張珍貴照片，炮製一篇篇戰地飛鴻。

在巴格達，他頂著薩達姆共和國衛隊的槍口，吸著混雜各種燃燒物釋放的氣體，暍著被貧鈾彈污染的自來水。在約旦，他與外國同行勇闖戒備森嚴的邊防站，深入報道約伊邊境難民，混跡支持薩達姆的反美遊行，用相機傳遞戰爭的緊張。在以色列，他在飛毛腿空襲中奔走街頭，記錄戰爭廢墟、防毒面具下的恐懼；在戒嚴的加沙的槍聲中，悄無聲息地拍下以色列軍人與巴勒斯坦人的每一次交鋒……

作為戰時涉足國家最多的中國人，也是唯一往返交戰國雙方的記者，唐老鴨將海灣戰爭時的工作激情，沉澱為富有節律而流暢的文字，以成本書。現代戰爭的肅殺氛圍、孤單無助的大量難民、並肩報道的各國同仁等，在詼諧而亢奮的文字中淋漓盡現，紀實中游弋著唐式之瘋，向我們展示了關於血汗、夢想、死亡和榮譽的戰地風雲。

這是一本用身軀和生命譜就的一個人的戰爭史實，他的詩一般的文字十幾年來感動了無數讀者，閱讀的激情在全國大小校園裡隨著青春蕩漾，累計發行超過百萬冊——成為我們這個時代為數不多的經典。

阿拉法特是世界上惟一沒有國土的國家元首，他頭頂絕無僅有的頭巾圍法樗著他的國家。幾十年來阿拉法特獨特的恐怖之鼻可以嗅出炸彈的氣味，上千次從死神黑翼下滑過，而我幾次把他摟在懷裡。…… 沿著不足一米高的墓道爬入胡夫金字塔腹內的核心部位，王碼電腦公司軟體中心種巨大的壓抑感向我襲來，好像來自整座大金字塔的壓力直抵頭頂，隨時要把我碾成碎粉。陰晦沉重的空氣中彷彿充滿各種懸浮物，隨手可觸。

這是一部講述戰爭與財富，愛與恨，貪慾望與救贖的史詩巨著，戰爭毀滅一切，卻無力毀滅人性；恨海滔天，卻不會溟滅男女愛、兄弟情；從溝壑到荒原，從波斯到德州，從懷特霍爾到華盛頓，戰地與鑽井，商戰與情場，感動英倫百萬讀者的除了紛紜財富夢，糾結不完的物慾追逐與最終找到各自愛的歸宿，更有兩個男人跨越生死的兄弟情。美國讀者說《亞當之子》是英倫版的《漫長的婚約》，你怎麼看呢？是否像異國讀者一樣感受到人類靈魂深處的暗黑和豪情的的撞擊，並感嘆愛最終戰勝恨，貪慾最終得到救贖？

本書是美國的一部斷代史，勾畫了從1932年羅斯福總統上台前後，到1972年尼克鬆總統任期內水門事件的四十年間美國政治、經濟、文化，以及社會生活的全景式畫卷。這是一部場景宏大，又描寫細膩的歷史巨著。作者對這四十年間美國曆屆政府從誕生到終結全過程中的兩黨紛爭和內部分歧，對這一階段全世界所經歷的每一件大事都給予了特別的關注和敘述；同時，對這四十年間發生在全世界，尤其是與美國有關聯的方方面面都給予了細緻入微的刻畫。從補償金大軍風潮、經濟大蕭條、總統競選、二次世界大戰、原子彈爆炸、朝鮮戰爭、越南戰爭、肯尼迪遇刺身亡、尼克鬆鄭入水門事件，到美國人的精神風貌、社會時尚、各階層的生活狀況，再到演藝界的奇聞趣事、婦女的流行服裝、青少年的時髦追求，甚至英語詞彙的最新演變和人們的性觀念都做了面面俱到的講述。對於每一位讀者來說，閱讀此書是從本質上深刻了解美國的最簡單、最有效的方法。

本書在1979年曾由商務印書館出版發行過，它的面世在當時及以後的漫長歲月里曾在中國讀者中引起過較好的反響，甚至對一大批中國記者的寫作都產生了極大的影響。

《莊子》十一篇英譯

譯者：林語堂

Table:

A Happy Excursion

Levelling All Things

Preservation of Life

This Human World

Deformities

The Great Supreme

Joined Toes

Horses' Hooves

Opening Trunks

On Tolerance

Autumn Floods

Translator's Notes

Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.

Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.

Some poems of Carson McCullers

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's saying the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. Forty years later the stories and history continue.

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.

A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do.

Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:

I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.

Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins

This book is the dairy of a French girl who lived in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was a real person. So were others who come into her story. Their names appear in the history books of Europe; but there they are dead people ----- and in Desiree's diary they are alive.

Here we can see, through a woman's eyes, how history was made. She was there. She knew the men and women who made it. She almost married Napoleon himself.

No one really understood him. Not even Desiree. She hated his wars; but she never hated the man. He has no heart, she said. And she was sorry for him, because love and peace had no place in his life. In her own life she found true love, with Jean Bernadotte. But in those days a soldier's wife had little peace, especially if her husband dared to quarrel with Napoleon.

Some people write their diaries every day. Others only write then when something important happens. Desiree's diary is of the second kind. It only covers the most important times in her life.

The first half of her story is told in this book.

Bernadottes new position now takes Desiree to the royal court of Sweden. Life there is very hard for the silk merchants daughter who almost married Napoleon in Marseilles. She is happier in Paris, even without her family. But Napoleon is still jealous of her husband. When he and Desiree meet, there is always trouble. And when war comes again, the two men are on opposite sides.

Napoleon does at last, on the island of St Helena. He had terrible faults, said Desiree. But he was my first love--- and Im not ashamed of those days in Marseilles. She goes back to Sweden and there she is crowned: the first Queen of the royal family of Bernadotte.

This is one of the greatest love stories I have ever read. … It is so beautifully written that it really takes you to another place in time and will make you ask yourself—how long could you, or would you, wait for love?

51 years,9 months, and 4 days, How long would you wait for the one you love?