九九藏書

《納爾齊斯與歌爾德蒙》把故事和人物安排在中世紀：自幼失去母親的修道院學生歌爾德蒙立志侍奉上帝，他的老師和朋友納爾齊斯卻勸說他放棄苦修和戒條的束縛，回歸母親賦予他的本性之中，成為靈感充沛的人。於是歌爾德蒙聽從了他的勸告，開始流浪的生涯。自從愛欲被一位吉卜賽女郎所喚醒，歌爾德蒙的身體和靈魂就經歷了無數次愛情與背叛，爭奪與死亡，浸透了紅塵的氣味，也烙下了許多細微、優美而滄桑的感觸。直到有一天，他被一座聖母像的美所震撼，激起了他創造的慾望。於是歌爾德蒙師從雕刻家，沉潛到雕塑藝術中。歷經千迴百折，他又回到自己的摯友和師長納爾齊斯的身邊，兩人分別以靈感和理性啟發對方，終於使歌爾德蒙掌握了化瞬間為永恆的藝術法則，雕出了以他的戀人麗迪亞為原型的完美塑像聖母瑪利亞。在藝術創造的過程中，不羈的天性仍然驅使他遠離靜態的生活，去追逐不道德的艷遇，去放逐自己的軀體，直到它衰老、死亡，直到它已窮盡世間的所有奇遇，直到自己不再渴求任何幸福。歌爾德蒙死在理性的兄長納爾齊斯身旁，死在對母親和死亡的大徹大悟中，雖然他沒有完成對夏娃母親的雕塑，但是他沒有任何遺憾。

《納爾齊斯與歌爾德蒙》是一部奇特的小說，具有多重釋義的可能：它探討了理性人生與感性人生之間的複雜關係；呼喚從父性文化向母性文化傳統的回歸；探求人性內部的和諧；但從總體上來看，它是一部在哲學層次上探討生命永恆的意義的小說。

an ascetic monk; a rigorous intellectual remains in the monastery to become an abbot; the epitome of the masculine, analytical mind.

GOLDMUND

romantic, dreamy, flaxen-haired boy; celebrates the lush, lyrical, rapturous, sensuous quality of women; leaves the monastery to find his true nature; he epitomizes the feminine mind.

NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND

two antithetical natures, the best of friends, who understand and assist each other.

《荒原狼》描寫的是中年藝術家的精神危機。小說主人公哈里·哈勒爾自稱荒原狼，一隻迷了路來到我們城裡，來到家畜群中的荒原狼。哈勒爾年輕時曾想有所作為，做一番高尚而有永恆價值的事業，他富有正義感，具有人道主義思想。但是在現實生活中，他的理想破滅了；他反對互相殘殺的戰爭，反對狹隘的民族沙文主義和軍國主義，卻招來一片誹謗與謾罵，他到處看到庸俗鄙陋之輩，追名逐利之徒，各黨各派為私利而傾軋。他深感時代與世界、金錢與權力總是屬於平庸而渺小的人，真正的人卻一無所有。社會上道德淪喪、文化墮落，什麼東西都發出一股腐朽的臭味。荒原狼與這個社會格格不入，在他看來，周圍的一切都只不過是一場猴戲。他感到非常痛苦孤獨，他煩躁不安，無家可歸，啊，在我們的世界……要找到神靈的痕迹是多麼困難啊！在這個世界，我沒有一絲快樂，在這樣的世界，我怎能不做一隻荒原狼，一個潦倒的隱世者。

With a new introduction by the acclaimed bestselling author, this is the spectacular deluxe tenth-anniversary edition of a fantasy classic--the sweeping tale of sorcery, magic, politics, war, love, betrayal, and survival...

A richly sensuous fantasy world, full of evocative history, religions, folklore, local customs, and a magical rites...a bravura performance, nearly impossible to put down.-- Kirkus Reviews

Kay's brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil, high and low, will draw readers to this consuming epic.-- Publishers Weekly

A brilliant single-volume epic fantasy, rich in intrigue and subtlety. Memorable characters and cultures add depth to a gracefully plotted story.-- Library Journal

Massively satisfying...startlingly new. -- Toronto Star

The heir to Tolkien's tradition.-- Booklist

One of the best fantasy novels I have read.-- Anne McCaffrey

All that you held most dear you will put by and leave behind you; and this is the arrow the longbow of your exile first lets fly.

You will come to know how bitter as salt and stone is the bread of others, how hard the way that goes up and down stairs that never are your own.

Dante, The Paradiso What can a flame remember? If it remembers a little less than is necessary, it goes out; if it remembers a little more than is necessary, it goes out. If only it could teach us, while it burns, to remember correctly.

George Seferis, Stratis the Sailor Describes a Man

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.

The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland.

Written with a light touch,this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.

Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's most highly regarded work of fiction, though not his best known. That distinction belongs to The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel that prompted Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who considered the book blasphemous, to declare Rushdie an enemy of Islam and put a $1.5 million bounty on his head. But in Midnight's Children, Rushdie had already produced a novel that not only risks offending some readers, but also fiercely challenges our understanding of history, nationhood, and narrative.

When Carson McCullers was a teenager, she came to New York City to study piano at Juilliard. She never matriculated; she lost the purse with her tuition money in it. Such small, unredressed tragedies as these are at the silent, solitary heart of McCullers' first novel, which centers on a deaf-mute and a teenage tomboy living in a small Georgia town in the 1930s. McCullers' characters reach out to one another for sympathy and understanding, but not all of them can complete the connection, and their isolated thoughts form a choir of amazing, transcendent poignance—music only the reader can hear. —L.G.

Misunderstood Maggie Tulliver is torn. Her rebellious and passionate nature demands expression, and her provincial kin and community expedt self-denial. Maggie is story, some of whose incidents and main characters come directly from the author is own life, explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral rsponsibility.

Written in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was instantly popular. The values of England is growing middle-class society are reflected by the townspeople of St. Ogg is, who dwell along the river Floss, where the Tullivers have worked in a family mill for generations. when her father is folly places their ancestral home in jeopardy, Maggie is forced to draw upon her intelligence and sensitivity—qualities unappreciated in a woman of her time and place. Her failure to uphold the family honor excies the self-righteous wrath of St. Ogg is, a scornful condemmaion shared even by Maggie is adored brother, Tom.

Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sisteron the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had nopictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

For Dorothy and Thomas, wish you were here

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

NOSTOS BY LOUISE GLUCK

Thank you to Peter Steinberg and Coates Bateman. I am also happily indebted to Nan Talese, Luke Epplin, and everyone at Doubleday, to Joe Regal and the redoubtable Bess Reed. To Melanie for her insightful reading and suggestions and for years of encouragement. To all my children.

For their advice and inspiration, Sam Hazo, David Low, Cliff Becker, Amy Stolls, Ellen Bryson, Gigi Bradford, Allison Bawden, Laura Becker, and Sharon Kangas. And for the swift kick at Whale Rock, thank you to Jane Alexander and Ed Sherin.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection inspired the journal article on the anthropological roots of the changeling myth.

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller』s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller』s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.

This book published when Keller was only twenty-two portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals her frustrations and rage, and takes the reader on the unforgettable journey of her education and breakthroughs into the world of communication. From the moment Keller recognizes the word water when her teacher finger-spells the letters, we share her triumph as that living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! An unparalleled chronicle of courage, The Story of My Life remains startlingly fresh and vital more than a century after its first publication, a timeless testament to an indomitable will.

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a baby farmer, who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.

One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.

The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of consummate skill and The Seattle Times has praised her work as gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses. Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.

A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories....until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read....The Notebook

本書所收錄的小說，其背景則呈現為多樣性，有都市生活的，有大學生活的，也有家庭生活的，但其反映的主旨似仍在人物的內心世界，以及那種沒來由的孤獨感。

傷心咖啡館之歌

首先，愛情是發生在兩個人之間的一種共同的經驗——不過，說它是共同的經驗並不意味著它在有關的兩個人身上所引起的反響是同等的。世界上有愛者，也有被愛者，這是截然不同的兩類人。往往，被愛者僅僅是愛者心底平靜地蘊積了好久的那種愛情的觸發劑。每一個戀愛的人都多少知道這一點。他在靈魂深處感到他的愛戀是一種很孤獨的感情。他逐漸體會到一種新的、陌生的孤寂，正是這種發現使他痛苦。因此，對於戀愛者來說只有一件事可做。他必須儘可能深地把他的愛情禁銅在心中；他必須為自己創造一個全然是新的內心世界——個認真的、奇異的、完全為他單獨擁有的世界。我還得添上一句，我們所說的這樣的戀愛者倒不一定得是一個正在攢錢準備買結婚戒指的年輕人——這個戀愛者可以是男人、女人、兒童，總之，可以是世界上任何一個人。

至於被愛者．也可以是任何一種類型的人。最最粗野的人也可以成為愛情的觸發劑。一個顫巍巍的老爺子可能仍然鍾情於2o年前某日下午他在奇霍街頭所見到的陌生姑娘。牧師也許會愛上一個墮落的女人。被愛的人可能人品很壞，油頭滑腦，染有不良惡習。是的，戀愛者也能像別人一樣對一切認識得清清楚楚——可是這絲毫也不影響他的感情的發展。一個頂頂平庸的人可以成為一次沼澤毒罌粟般熱烈、狂放、美麗的戀愛的對象。一個好人也能成為—次放蕩、墮落的戀愛的觸發劑，一個絮絮叨叨的瘋子沒準能使某人頭腦里出現一曲溫柔、淳美的牧歌。因此．

任何一次戀愛的價值與質量純粹取決於戀愛者本身。

正因如此，我們大多數人都寧願愛而不願被愛。幾乎每一個都願意充當戀愛者。道理非常簡單，人們朦朦朧朧地感到，被人愛的這種處境，對於許多人來說，都是無法忍受的。被愛者懼怕而且憎恨愛者，這也是有充分理由的。因為愛者總是想把他的所愛者剝得連靈魂都裸露出來。愛者瘋狂地渴求與被愛者發生任何一種可能的關係，縱使這種經驗只能給他自身帶來痛苦。

You slew a man and then fell out with one another concerning him.

—Koran, The Cow.

The blind and the seeing are not equal.

—Koran, The Creator.

To God belongs the East and the West.

Unlike many of his characters, Orhan Pamuk has never lived beyond the city where he was born, but in a city like Istanbul there are already hundreds of lifetimes of stories yet to be told. Still, at the bridge between Europe and Asia it can seem that almost much of the far away worlds has already passed through these famous narrows, and traces still lay collecting in the cities Byzantine alleyways. My Name Is Red is a ruminating mystery haunted by love, art, religion, and politics. It is infused with cultures, legends, history and philosophy that all drift through the narrative like wisps of smoke. The tense interplay between ancient traditions and human passions is brilliantly illustrated through intersecting stories of painting, romance, faith, and murder. Slowly, piece by piece, a variety of highly subjective first-person narrators build the story out of beguiling dialogue and enchanting tangents. Fascinatingly, the fragments all begin to fold in upon each other, gradually fusing into a single dramatic conclusion. Desolate winter in the ancient city profuse with rich textures and disparate voices comes to life with the passion, melancholy and elegant, evocative complexity of an Arabesque illumination or Byzantine mosaic.

Burning Your Boats (Short Stories Collection)，本書完整收錄安潔拉·卡特創作生涯中的短篇小說。其中包括四冊曾獨立出版之作品：《煙火》，《染血之室》，《黑色維納斯》， 《美國鬼魂與舊世界奇觀》），另外還收錄卡特從未出版單行本之六篇遺珠小說。著名小說家魯西迪特別作序推薦。

本書四十二篇精彩小說可以看到作者創作上的企圖心，題材從童話故事到真人真事皆有，原發表場所從一般流行雜誌到學術傾向的倫敦書評，顯示卡特不斷跨越各種書寫，社會分界，像是個遊走江湖的說書人，吸引各種社會階層駐足聆聽。

其中《染血之室》，為卡特最著名的代表作，她改寫《藍鬍子》、《穿靴貓》、《小紅帽》等著名故事，大幅翻轉故事的指涉意義。其中《與狼為伴》一篇曾改編成電影。

Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, which received the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, retells classic fairy tales. Angela Carter revises Puss-in-Boots and Sleeping Beauty, for example, from an adult, twentieth-century perspective. Her renditions are intended to disturb and titillate her audience, instead of lulling it to sleep. The title story recasts the legend of Bluebeard, the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man.

Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in the house. This keyring includes one key that she must not use: the one to the room at the end of the great gallery. Of course, she eventually enters the room forbidden to her. In it she finds the corpses of her husband's previous wives, all with their throats cut. Startled, the girl drops the key, which is enchanted and permanently stained by the blood on the floor. From this stain, Bluebeard discovers her disobedience. He raises his scimitar, but just in time, her brothers arrive to slay the murderer.

Though it follows the original tale in basic structure, The Bloody Chamber adds details of character and setting that raise issues of sexual awakening and sexual depravity, of the will to live, and of life in hell. In having the young bride be the one to tell her story and in having her courageous mother come to the rescue, moreover, Carter revisits an age-old tale with her feminist viewpoint.