经由这部20世纪的情爱经典，读者可以踏上战前法国知识分子心灵的黑暗之旅。 彼时，欧洲正疯狂滑向法西斯主义的深渊。正值西班牙内战，亨利 托普曼离开巴黎的病床，前往巴塞罗那，在那里见证了加泰罗尼亚大罢工。让他进退维谷的三个女人这时也来到了巴塞罗那：拉扎尔，马克思主义犹太人和政治活动家，如果被捕，她可能被佛朗哥政权迫害；蒂尔媞（多萝西娅），无节制的酒精沉迷者，她是托普曼的性伴侣；格耶妮，一个年轻女子，在巴黎期间，她曾照料发高烧的托普曼。 作为巴塔耶公开的政治作品之一，它将暴力、权力和死亡结成可怖的一体，同时探索性作为一种颠覆力量的模棱两可。
本书由三个文本组成。 *个文本是D（狄亚努斯）的日志，它构成了被称为 鼠的故事 的*部分。这部分以D的视角展开，记述了他与B的情乱，同时，在这场混乱的激情中，A（阿尔法主教）作为一个衔接D与B之关系的人物在场。 *部分也涉及了D与E的情乱，而这构成了第二个文本的记述核心。第二部分被称为 狄亚努斯 ，是A的笔记。这部分以A的视角展开。 这两个文本共同结构了本书的故事。被称为 俄瑞斯忒斯 的第三部分则更像是一个总的视角，或者说，一则诗性概述。它由诗歌和诗论组成。巴塔耶写道： 为了在一片明显的不可能中抓住一丝可能，我必须首先想象相反的情境。
Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he isreckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into paintinga fence or helping to catch a murderer. Twain's novel sparkles withhis famous humor, but it is also woven with a subtle awareness ofthe injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain somemorably portrays.
Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corneris a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century'sfinest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, theesteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and hiscompanion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means oftransportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent,however, when a vicious storm forces them to seek shelter on theremote island of Kanda. There these three men fall under the spellof the sultry and stunningly beautiful Louise, and their storyspirals into a wicked tale of love, murder, jealousy, andsuicide.
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the BerlinWall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of amarriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law ofBernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement beganalmost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep lovecould be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and Junecannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only tobe led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty yearsearlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating andirreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe inJeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination ofevil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality ofciviliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions thatboth create love and destroy it.
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickenscollection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope,Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmastales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No holidayseason is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, ofhis long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit, of Bob'skindhearted lame son, Tiny Tim, and of the Ghosts of ChristmasPast, Present, and Future. First published in 1843, "A ChristmasCarol "was republished in 1852 in a new edition with four otherChristmas stories--"The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, TheBattle of Life, " and "The Haunted Man." These beloved talesrevived the notion of the Christmas "spirit"--and have kept italive ever since.
The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet TomasTranstromer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990.Translated by Michael McGriff, Transtromer's great work isavailable in its first single-volume English edition.
In 1880 Dostoevsky completed "The Brothers Karamazov," theliterary effort for which he had been preparing all his life.Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide andof the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, thesensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; andtwisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid,nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into asordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a grippingcourtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes forthe truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. Aterrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental workremains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist ofall time.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Charles Dickens's firsthistorical novel-set during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780-is anunparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seenthrough the eyes of the individuals swept up in the chaos. Thoseindividuals include Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant,whose forbidden love weaves through the heart of the story; and thesimpleminded Barnaby, one of the riot leaders, whose fate is tiedto a mysterious murder and whose beloved pet raven, Grip, embodiesthe mystical power of innocence. The story encompasses both therarified aristocratic world and the volatile streets andnightmarish underbelly of London, which Dickens characteristicallyportrays in vivid, pulsating detail. But the real focus of the bookis on the riots themselves, depicted with an extraordinary energyand redolent of the dangers, the mindlessness, and thepossibilities-both beneficial and brutal-of the mob. One of thelesser-known novels, "Barnaby Rudge" is nonetheless among the mostbrilliant-and most
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Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe ofwealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novelhas become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literaryachievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spiritedAmerican girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manorGardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates anatmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparablebeauty. Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfillher potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and abrash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalidcousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence leadher not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception,and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of awoman’s consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece ofJames’s middle years.
Stories that trace the decline and fall of a marriage, ahistory made up of the happiness of growing children and sharedlife, and the sadness of growing estrangement and themisunderstandings of love.
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a world--a rich,perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complexcharacters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious Americangirls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters and charming Europeanspopulate these five fascinating Nouvelles --works which representthe author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitionsof evil that haunt the governess in The Turn Of The Screw to thestartling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in The Beast In TheJungle, the mysterious tumings of human behavior are skillfully andcoolly observed--proving Henry James to be a master ofpsychological insight as well as one of the finest stylists ofmodern English literature.
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slavewoman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges herlight-skinned child with her master's. From this rathersimple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining,funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nheadWilson possesses all the elements of an engrossingnineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, ahorrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroomdrama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is nota mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents ofantebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment inwhich the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice andslavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nheadWilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense,and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's laterworks.
在线阅读本书 A brand-new collection of Sinclair Lewis's prolific body of shortfiction, focusing on the author's primary concerns: the issue ofclass, work and money in America.
Voltaire's shocking wit and biting portrayal of the eighteenthcentury church and aristocracy are now showcased in a newtranslation of Candide, a bestseller in its time and essentialreading for a deeper understanding of Voltaire and Enlightenmentthought. Preserving the text's provocative nature as well as itsaccuracy, Daniel Gordon has paid special attention to improving notonly the rendering of particular words, but to Voltaire's semanticovertones by amplifying the book's innuendo, enhancing Candide'sreadability and ensuring that readers will not miss bold featuresof the story. The introduction places Candide and Voltaire in theirhistorical context, relating the complexities of Voltaire's life tothe events, philosophy, and characters of Candide, showingprecisely why the Enlightenment is known as the Age ofVoltaire.
The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminalwriters of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "ACountry Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by AnneRice.
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined theKlondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged thesegripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as someof London' s best and most defining work. With remarkable insightand unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversitythat awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, andthe extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted tosurvive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, " One felt that the storieshad been somehow lived- that they were not merely observed- thatthe author was not telling tales but telling his life." Thisedition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-threecarefully chosen stories from London' s three collected Northlandvolumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps ofthe region, and notes on the text.
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money,"Our Mutual Friend" revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heapwhere the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, thedust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes changehands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, alow-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." CharlesDickens's last complete novel, "Our Mutual Friend" encompasses thegreat themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveauxriches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailingpower of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorfulcast of characters and numerous subplots, "Our Mutual Friend" isone of Dickens's most complex--and satisfying--novels.
Renaissance England’s great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed at the end of the sixteenth century. This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, each with detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" includes a generous selection from Marlowe’s main source, The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa, Calvin, and Perkins) that establish the play’s intellectual background. This volume also reprints early documents relating to the writing and publication of the play and to its first performances, along with contemporary comments on Marlowe’s scandalous reputation. Twenty-five carefully chosen interpretations—written from the eighteenth century to the present—allow students to enrich their critical understanding of the play. These diverse critical essays in
