Simplified Chinese edition of Liza of Lambeth by W.Somerset Maugham Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere. 《兰贝斯的丽莎》是毛姆长篇小说的处女作和成名作。 　　一八九二年十月三日，十八岁的毛姆成为伦敦圣托马斯医院医学院的一名学生，为期五年的学医生涯，不仅使他有机会了解到底层人民的生活状况，而且使他学会用解剖刀一样冷峻、犀利的目光来剖视人生和社会。他的第一部小说《兰贝斯的丽莎》，即根据他作为见习医生在贫民区为产妇接生时的见闻用自然主义手法写成。它描写的是贫民窟的一个与寡母相依为命的漂亮姑娘丽莎短促的一生和悲剧性的死亡，通过一个劳工阶层的通奸故事真切地反映出世纪之交劳工阶层的伦敦人的日常生活。真实、大胆，又富含同情的幽默。...

Henry Rathbone is called by an old friend whose son has gone missing just before the Christmas holiday. Now in his early twenties, Lucien has known trouble for some time and has often fallen victim to the vices of drugs, alcohol, and women. His father now fears the worst. Their old friend, Squeaky Robinson, volunteers to help as well. Henry agrees and, joined by Crow, a young doctor at the clinic, the pair trawls the pubs, brothels, and opium dens...

"Baldo and Lau have uncovered the blood collection scheme at the Athena Sanitorium for Former Service men in record time, but the situation is not as cut-and-dry as they had assumed. While chief nurse Ada wants nothing more than to wash her hands of the whole affair, her duty to give the best care possible to her fellow veterans keeps her shackled to the Aurora Society. After all, the atrocities of war and the guilt of survival are heavy burdens to...

Summoned to the offices of Victorian London's most powerful and dangerous solicitors, disgraced police officer turned independent detective Charles Maddox turns to his famous but aging investigator uncle to identify who has been sending threatening letters to a client.

For an impeccable gentleman's butler like Sebastian Michaelis, the word "impossible" is just not in his vocabulary. Everything demanded of him under the English sun is well within his grasp. But do his talents extend to things under the scalding Indian sun?! As Harold West-Jeb's plan to use Agni, Prince Soma's superhuman butler, in a curry battle to win himself a Royal Warrant is exposed, Earl Ciel Phantomhive sets Sebastian to the task of creating...