One Good Deed

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.

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in pgsk.com Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves London for Paris and Tahiti, and in his quest makes sacrifices that leaves the lives of those closest to him in tatters. Through Maugham's sympathetic eye Strickland's tortured and cruel soul becomes a symbol of the blessing and the curse of transcendent artistic genius, and the cost in humans lives it sometimes pgsk.com on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.

With an introduction by Meg Rosoff William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her belief in him seem to move in parallel with the decline of the god himself - but things are more complicated than they appear. "A remarkable work...A compelling storyteller as well as a clear-eyed philosopher of the dangerous puzzles of being human." (The Times). "A wonderful central character. The story stretches out as clean and dry and clear as the beach in Lord of the Flies."(Independent). "Feline, deadpan and at moments hilarious." (Observer).

她，重生归来。而他，身体里却是另一缕孤魂。当彼此间秘密不再是秘密，他说，“我助你复仇，你助我登上皇位，如何？”她冷笑，“你心机之深，何须我助你？”“凭你苏家小姐身份，怎么助不了我？”他笑的邪气，话语间透着一丝轻佻和随意。从此，她逃脱一里，他追她一丈，她逃一丈，他追至天涯海角。他眉眼邪笑，“此生，不会让你逃脱我的掌心。”一世梦魇，一世宠溺，往事如尘，今世相守。

一次意外，亲手杀死了自己的兄弟，自责的他选择了逃避回归都市，师傅却让他做一名学生，在校园里又会出现怎样的故事，但，当他知道那次意外是一场阴谋，他，又如何力挽狂澜。

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黄泉路畔，奈何桥边，三生石魂，孟婆谪仙……五公子，小女子这厢有礼了。

失意少年古恒偶得永恒道盘穿越到元界下界玄武界，行走混沌诸天，国武世界里追寻极限，巩固道基...在魔改三国世界里屠天建神国，成就仙神....穿梭于诸天万界，成道永恒，超脱而去。(可能世界:国武世界，高武三国，修真世界，万古神帝，红尘九世，大主宰，完美，遮天，......(魔改版！)。)

两个男主一个女主，以走剧情为主，无明确感情线，很想看撒明确糖的移步吧谢谢。 女主和男主之间的感情更像是革命友谊？更不那么像是爱情，嗑爱情的，请移步吧对不起！背景仿照民国，但由于考证困难，选择架空，所有城市，建筑和大部分社会背景随我开心而定。

青涩蜕变，如今她是能独当一面的女boss，爱了冷泽聿七年，也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路，他突然向他表白，扬言要娶她，她只当他是脑子抽风，他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因，赶走身边情敌，解释当初拒绝她的告别，和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系，还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫，扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转，破镜还能重圆吗？ PS:我又开新文了，每逢假期必书荒，新文《有你的世界遇到爱》，喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看，这是重生类现言，对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。

一个自闭逃课的问题少女，因为一顿夜宵邂逅了一场终身难忘的噩梦。一个无业孤僻的单身宅男，被一个电话从美梦中堕入地狱。如果不是那天晚上的灾难，可能他们的生活轨迹永远不会改变。生于光明之中，我们总是认为善意是世界的主色。然而当阴云浸透世界，扒开失去文明保护的道义，真正的人性才暴露于世。或许真正改变这个世界的不是丧尸，也不是地震，而是人心。吵闹前行的不是末日，悄然来临的才是。当末世的脚步逐步逼近，当丧尸如潮涌进家园，当各种灾难轮番肆虐。你会选择放弃认命，还是拿起武器对抗这个世界。一开始，我只是想救我自己；后来我变强了，我想救那些和我一起斗争的同伴们；再后来，我知道了这一切的真相，我想帮这个世界。无异能无系统无金手指分线剧情。女主不圣母。

我行走在这繁华都市，也是不为人知的清理者。在我也眼中有人也有鬼···在我眼中不分善恶，只有活着与死后···正如信念驱使···我也相信孟婆水上停留的百鬼都有过往···也是在此时一幕幕信与不信皆而来···