A vibrant, new complete Shakespeare that brings readers closerthan ever before possible top Shakespeare's plays as they werefirst acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Editioninvites readers to rediscover Shakespeare-the working man of thetheater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as*s to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combiningthe freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with livelyintroductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossariesand annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of theNorton Anthologies), this complete Shakespeare invites contemporaryreaders to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt's fullintroduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture,demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modernEngland-Shakespeare's family background and professional life, theElizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequentcenturies of Shakespeare textual editing.

一个人，把灵魂卖给了恶魔，能换取到什么？美色？力量？财富？权力？还是……美艳动人的梅杜莎女王、大陆被通缉的叛徒、还有邪恶的天才魔法师……所有的这些家伙，却聚集到了一个被认为是毫无天赋的废物身边。

Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competinginfluences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palacesstanding side-by-side with concrete-and-steel high rises, and ruralsimplicity contrasting urban chaos. China Style looks atinteriors that draw from this vivid and powerful tradition. Itincludes examples of Shanghai Art Deco and the unique Peranakanshop house, as well as modern clubs sumptuously furnished withglittering fabrics and Chinese design motifs, minimalistic glasshouses, and restaurants with a cultural-revolution flair.Photographed in locations as diverse as Shanghai, New York, HongKong, and Minneapolis, China Style shows how Chinesetradition is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh anddynamic style of contemporary design.

Ralph Waldo Emerson set out on his first visit to Europe in 1831,passing throuth Italy,Switzerland and France to Britain,and visiting Landor,Coleridge,Wordsworth,and ,most important of all ,Carlyle,with whom he laid the foundation of a life-long friendship.On his return to America,he took up lecturing,and continued for nearly forty years to use this form of expression for his ideas on religion,politics,literature,and philosophy.He published a succession of volumes of essays,addresses and poems.The spirit and ideas which constitute the essence of his teachings are fully expressed in the essays contained in this volume.The writings here produced belong to the earlier half of his literary activity.However,it may fairly be said that by 1860 Emerson had put forth all his important fundamental ideas,and the later utterances consist largely of restatements and applications of these.Thanks to the singular bearty and condensation of his style,it is thus possible to obtain from this one volume a view of the philosophy