The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series ispopular for its compact size and reasonable price which does notcompromise content. Poems: Shakespeare contains selections fromShakespeare's work, including his sonnets, his narrative poems"Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," songs and speeches,and an index of first lines.

Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning Includes"Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail,To Build a Fire, " and "Love of Life" Out of the white wilderness,out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America's most popularauthors, drew the inspiration for the novel and five short storiesincluded here. Swiftly paced and vividly written, they capture themain theme of London's work: man's instinctive reversion toprimitive behavior when pitted against the brute force ofnature.

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play′s complete text and aglossary appear side–by–side with coordinating numbered lines tohelp you understand unusual words and phrasing. You′ll also findall the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes forLiterature.

Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises fourremarkable novels that explore social class in America and theinner lives of young Americans. In "A Garden of Earthly Delights,"Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole,the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers.Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence andpoverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clarastruggles for independence by way of her relationships with fourvery different men: her father, a family man turned itinerantlaborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, whorescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love;Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; andSwan, Clara's son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burdenof his mother's ambition. A masterly work from a writer with "theuncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America"("National Review"), "A Garden of Earthly Delights "is the openingstanza i

Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that compriseSouth Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author’s ownfar-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing visionborne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividlyevoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricioustropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicateinterplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitzasserts in his Introduction, “When London’s stories click, we areutterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of humanendurance.”

A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popularcomedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, theshrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom,Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a moreconventional romantic plot involving the wooing of Katharina’slovely and compliant sister, Bianca. Rich with the psychologicalthemes of identity and transformation, the play is quintessentiallylighthearted, filled with visual gags, witty repartee, andunmatched theatrical brilliance from Petruchio’s demand, “Kiss me,Kate!” to the final spectacle of the wedding feast. Each Edition Includes: ? Comprehensive explanatory notes ? Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship ? Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enablingcontemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English ? Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performancehistories ? An interpretive essay on film adaptations of th

在线阅读本书 The story of an Ancient Roman soldier whose political machinationsand military might gain him heroic status, but ultimately lead tohis assassination.

With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolutionbrings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving peoplerising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadentregime.

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. Summer is the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

This is the story of an artist as an aging man, strugglingthrough the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro'sfirst novel.

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language andthe inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early workof H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest fromreviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted toknow more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in hisfirst book, "The Time Machine, "not its potential for misuse andterror. In "The Island of Dr. Moreau" a shipwrecked gentleman namedEdward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by thenotorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures,and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale wasintended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and thetension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiarwith genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of theethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings orbringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add arichness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island o

Book De*ion The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win the hand ofplain Catherine Sloper--even if it means pretending that he lovesthe homely ingenue, not her opulent wealth. Includes a newAfterword by the author of "The Hours." Reissue.

Shakespeare shines a fierce spotlight on the jealous heart andon our attitudes toward the outsider. A story of its time and forour time, full of terror and beauty, Othello is urgent,gripping, radical, and beautiful. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions from the Royal ShakespeareCompany set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for thetwenty-first century.

在线阅读本书 This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflictbetween a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and hispolitically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorablescenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a splendidmedieval tournament to the poignant surrender of a crown; from thequeen’s heart-shattering farewell to her king to Richard’s murder—adeed “chronicled in hell” that lives forever as one of the greatmoments in theater.

In Forster's most popular novel, he tracks British society'sclass warfare, as seen by members of three different castes-thewealthy Wilcoxes, the cultured and emancipated Schlegal sisters,and poor, young Leonard Bast.

在线阅读本书 The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga ofHumphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now anunwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The menwho sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captainhimself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of a man. Jack London was a worshipper of the strong and virtuous hero, and afirm believer in the inevitable triumph of good. The masterstoryteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than inthis classic American tale of peril and adventure, good andevil.

On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition ofthe nature classic First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau'sgroundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers andcontinues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a loveof nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revisedIntroduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly inhis role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition ofWalden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant thanever. " Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, andoffers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments onsociety as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, bothfor its actual contents and its suggestive capacity." --A. P.Peabody, North American Review, 1854 " Walden] still seems to methe best youth's companion yet written by an American, for itcarries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, itadvances a good argument for traveling light and trying newadventures,

This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's mostimportant early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece,The Waste Land, which has long been regarded as one of thefundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements frommany diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speechlinked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos anddisillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. * The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. * Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Deathof St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes,Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among theNightingales. * T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature,and is one of America's greatest poets. * Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremostscholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly forthe New Yorker and The New Republic. * Vendler is also the author of books on other

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespearewith these features: Illustrated with photographs from NewYork Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readableintroductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, alively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on theplay in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-dateannotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of keypassages.

Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickens’ scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society andits misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times featuresschoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional,memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders ofsmall-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas—and ultimately,a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of theimagination.

One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, filled with fierce,violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, andguilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of thesupernatural. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate andEric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplished Shakespeareanscholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive textsand authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare's theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare's life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, andgeneral readers, these modern and accessible editions from theRoyal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespeareanliterature for the twenty-first century.

Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with hisreligion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of moreworldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, betweenemotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It isa theme that transcends all time. The Hesse Phenomenon "has turnedinto a vogue, the vogue into a torrent. . .He has appealed both to.. . an underground and to an establishment. . .and to thedisenchanted young sharing his contempt for our industrialcivilization."--"The New York Times Book Review"

Tolstoy startled the world with this powerful story ofadultery and its aftermath, of the human need for love andhappiness, and of the unyielding demands of society.