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서울 어디에나 있을 것 같은 동네의 후미진 골목길. 오가는 사람도 많지 않은 가정집들 사이에 평범한 동네 서점 하나가 들어선다. 바로 휴남동 서점! 슬픈 사연을 갖고 있는 사람처럼 얼굴에 아무런 의욕도 보이지 않는 서점 주인 영주는 처음 몇 달간은 자신이 손님인 듯 일은 하지 않고 가만히 앉아 책만 읽는다. 그렇게 잃어버린 것들을 하나둘 되찾는 기분으로 하루하루를 보내다 보니 소진되고 텅 빈 것만 같았던 내면의 느낌이 서서히 사라진다. 그러다 어느 순간 깨닫는다. 자신이 꽤 건강해졌다는 사실을. 그 순간부터 휴남동 서점은 완전히 새로운 공간이 된다. 사람이 모이고 감정이 모이고 저마다의 이야기가 모이는 공간으로. 바리스타 민준, 로스팅 업체 대표 지미, 작가 승우, 단골손님 정서, 사는 게 재미없는 고등학생 민철과 그의 엄마 희주 등 크고 작은 상처와 희망을 가진 사람들이 휴남동 서점이라는 공간을 안식처로 삼아 함께 살아가는 법을 배운다. 『어서 오세요, 휴남동 서점입니다』는 우리가 잃어버린 채 살고 있지만 사는 데 꼭 필요한 것들이 가득한 책이다. 배려와 친절, 거리를 지킬 줄 아는 사람들끼리의 우정과 느슨한 연대, 진솔하고 깊이 있는 대화 등.

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it. As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it.

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his tales of "ratiocination," his concept of analyzing a fictional crime to find the resolution. Brand new idea in its day. Poe's amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, takes an interest in the murder in Paris of two women. It was terribly brutal but difficult to categorize; there appeared to be no robbery or sexual assault, no obvious reason for the crimes. The newspapers carried sensational headlines. Dupin gets involved because the man arrested for the crimes, Monsieur Le Bon, had previously done him a favour. It becomes a challenge to Dupin. Get set for a step back in the history of detective fiction that leaves the impression that it was written just a short while ago. Librarian's note: this entry is for the story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is the first of three in the author's Dupin series. Collections of the series, including those under this title, and other stories by the author, are located elsewhere on Goodreads. Each of the Dupin stories can be found by searching Goodreads for "a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story."

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.