There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever,for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

In March 2000 Cisco Systems,with a mardet capitalization of＄531 billion,was the most valuable company on the planet.With44,000 employees and a stock price at ＄80 per share,Cisco was monthe later with the crisp smell of cole cash in the air,Cisco president and CEO john Chambers Vowed to change the world.Who knew that in a matter of days disaster would strike? 作者简介: ROBERT SLATER has written numerous bestselling business books,including jack Welch and the GE Way and Soros:The Life ,Tims and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor.His Book Ovitz:The Controversial Power Broker received widespread media attention.Slater worken for Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau for twenty years.

Millions of readers have enjoyed the haunting tale of WutberngHeights for its romantic and suspenseful plot. But did you kn6wz that it's also packed with words you need to know for the SAT,Learning words by reading them in context is one of the mOst effective ways to expand your vocabulary, and this book can help you do just that!

Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald,critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage,family, friendship - really worth? And how might they be otherwise? Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of the most important writers of the Modernist movement.

Enter the world of "Gossip Girl" - a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, crisp cotton sundresses are made to order, and jealousy and betrayal are the ultimate summer accessories...Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate's Hamptons estate ...But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what's this about Vanessa venturing surfside? Who's next, Dan? Never say never...

Old Martin Chuzzlewit has a great fortune, but to whom can he leave it? He and his likable grandson, young Martin, have fallen out. Beyond that, a tangle of sly, grasping relatives coil about him. Throughout, the reader is rooting for the gentle Tom Pinch and his lovely sister, Mary. But before all can be decided, Dickens puts both Tom and young Martin through murder, mayhem and a brief purgatory in the United States. Reader Davidson quickly tunes into Dickens's ferocious irony, but his paramount strength is his uncanny ability to find and maintain the perfect voice for each of the vintage characters: drippy, insinuous, vicious, sly, bold American backwoods, or London Cheapside. Each is a distinct creation! Dickens lovers will treasure every tape in this two-volume masterpiece. P.E.F.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions, and give the book an air of fresh innocence.

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live.

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama?

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.

Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice announced the arrival of the comedy of manners, a welcome change from the stiff, moralistic novels of the past. In recounting the courtship of the witty, indpendent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates, with subtle humor, the prejudices of society as a whole. 作者简介： Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribes as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment. As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At twenty-one, she began a novel called "First Impressi

Tony Khan and his brother Abdul are at an age where they can do anything, especially in a city as full of possibility-and womenmas London. But because they live in a family of seven headed by a father who believes in a strict, traditional Muslim upbringing,their quest for the good life becomes one big game of dodge ball,as the boys cleverly and humorously avoid their father's restrictions at every turn. And just as they start to lock in on their future, so does their father, who has made a little arrangement on their behalf marriage to two women they've never even met. Their father's decision is unacceptable to Tony and Abdul, and the rebellion is on. When father George tries to put his foot down, his English wife, Ella, becomes caught in the middle of a flying circus, torn between loyalty toward her husband's beliefs and empathy toward her kids' desires to make their own way in the world. After seducing both critics and audiences at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, East Is East went on to b

Mrs. Jenkins asks her class to celebrate Valentine's Day the nice way--by making special valentines for everyone, so no one's feelings are hurt. When Yoko, Lily, Timothy, and Charles discover someone in the classroom has been forgotten, they all pitch in to make this the best Valentine's Day ever. Where love is concerned, there's always enough to go around in Rosemary Wells's tender and heartwarming story. ROSEMARY WELLS is the award-winning author and illustrator of many celebrated books for children, including the New York Times best-seller Emily's First 100 Days of the acclaimed Yoko; its sequel, Yoko's Paper Cranes; and the McDuff series.

With this intensely moving short novle Edith Wharton set out to draw life as it really was in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains.Through the eyes of a visitor from the city trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome his grim wife Zeena and Mattie Silver her charming cousin Wharton explores pschological dead-lock:frustration longing resentment passion First published in 1911 the novella strnnde its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton s fiction.

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens’ comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author"s development as he began to delve deeper into the springs of character. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather’s servant, Mary Graharn. with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens’mastery of crime where characters such as the crimhlal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens’wonderful de*ion of the London boar

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”

A meteor hits the earth in the early 20th century. Martians rise from the crater in devastating death machines and lay waste to the surrounding land. How can the earth's population avoid total annihilation at the hands of these bloodthirsty aliens? First published in 1898 The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that is both startlingly up-to-date and in touch with the most ancient of human fears. 作者简介： Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), sociologist and author, was considered to be the fathers of the science fiction, but his stories are also - and perhaps essencially - parables of human experience that reflect his worldview. Wells was certainly a pioneer, writing as he did about time travel, genetic manipulations, and invisibility before the turn of the 20th century. The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The invisible Man and The Island of Dr. Moreau are some of the author's most celebrated works. He also wrote short stories and published more than 500 articles.

Tom and Huck go to see the unveiling of an experimental airship...only to be kidnapped by the ship's murderous inventor, who plans to fly around the world and then crash in flames-taking Tom and Huck with him! When the madman falls overboard in an Atlantic storm, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are trapped on an out-of-control airship, headed through the dangers of the ocean, toward the perils of the endless Sahara!

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.