《英国文学作品选读》是作者从英国文学作品中选编的一套适合我国具有较高英语水平的人阅读使用的书籍。尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。选文具有代表性，是广大英语爱好者及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者进修的理想读物。 《英国文学作品选读》（一）精选了英国文学作品多篇，包括乔叟、莎士比亚、培根、狄更斯、哈代、劳伦斯等英国文学大家的杰作以及弥尔顿、华兹华斯、拜伦、雪莱、艾略特等著名诗人的诗歌精选。 《英国文学作品选读》（二）精选了华兹华斯、柯尔律治、拜伦、雪莱、济慈等诗人还有乔治 艾略特、哈代王尔德等小说家的作品。本套选读材料可作为高等院校英语专业教材，也可供师范院校、教育学院、广播电视大学及社会上英语自学者学习使用。《英国文学作品选读》（三）精选了包括高尔斯华绥、萧
“阿加莎？克里斯蒂经典侦探作品集”丛书，是英国柯林斯出版公司精选的阿加莎？克里斯蒂的经典作品，由英国语言和文学专家专门为世界各地母语非英语的读者改编设计，每篇小说经过适当删减，其中的词汇和语法也做了简化，是适合中等以上英语水平读者学习的英语读物。书中印有二维码可在线听音频，由英国本土人士录制，声情并茂地再现精彩的故事内容。另，本丛书可配点读笔(需单独购买)。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》为阿加莎？克里斯蒂的 部侦探小说，奠定了大侦探波洛的人物基础。故事情节：斯泰尔斯庄园的女主人英格尔索普太太掌管着财政大权。某日凌晨，她在自己的房间里毒发身亡，而房间的三个门都是从里面锁上的。侦探波洛在调查此案的过程中发现了一系列疑点，但 的疑犯——英格尔索普太太的丈夫却有不在场的证据。 让波洛感到头痛的是，
莲花高台上的佛与法，俗世凡尘间的情与爱。1650年前的丝绸之路上，龟兹国外的古道正驼铃悠悠。初次遇到穿越而来的现代女子艾晴时，鸠摩罗什十三岁。再次见到她时，他二十四岁，已是名扬西域的僧人。对他来说，她是爱而不得的女子；对她来说，他是注定许身佛门的千古高僧。即使早已情根深种，终究羁绊于那一颗坚定的向佛之心。他们之间横亘着的不仅仅是漫长的千年岁月，更有十六国时代满目苍痍的乱世纷争。他与她相识四十年，用三十六年的寂寞等待，换来与她四年相依。她与他相识十年，以穿越的强大辐射为代价，在他遭逢劫难时不弃不离。历经劫难之后，他不再是万人膜拜的皇家上宾，而是冲破戒律与妻子紧紧相依的普通男子，是走过人间地狱仍心怀大爱的慈悲和尚。驼铃悠悠，唱响西域，那段遗落在丝绸之路上的纯真爱情，如何做到不负如来不
酒店之夜，既不孤独，亦无陪伴，深夜寂静。本书讲述了一对学生恋人的故事。保罗是一个学生，为了维持生计，在一家宾馆中做夜间保安。他被租住在313号房间的年轻女子阿米莉娅给迷住了。关于她的一切都是谜：她去了
本书是托马斯·沃尔夫的中篇小说，颇具自传色彩。这篇小说的主人公是十二岁的男孩格罗佛。他在打工休假时与姐姐偷溜进城，却不幸染上伤寒而死。本书即是讲述格罗佛死去后，他的家人对他的记忆。全书共分四章，每章分
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels,"Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before theSecond World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuationwith the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilegethey inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by hisdoomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia,Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and socialdistance from them.
In the last book he wrote before he died,Junichiro Tanizakireturns to a theme that dominates much of his earlier work:the relationship between sexual desire and the will to live. Diary of aMad Old Man, first published as Futen Rojin Nikki in 1962, is thejournal of Tokusuke Utsugi, a 77-year-old man of refined tastes whois recovering from a stroke caused by an excess of sexualexcitement. He discovers that even while his body is breaking down,his libido rages on, unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kind-lyattentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a sophisticated,flashy,cosmopolitan dancer with a shady past. Utsugi records bothhis past desires and his current efforts to bribe hisdaughter-in-law to provide sexual favors in return for Westernbaubles. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, he is without a trace ofself-pity, and much ofthe book, especially the scene in whichSatsuko explains the differ-ence between necking and petting,shines with humor. Here in this short novel is much of thetragicomedy of human existence
This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868—69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women. "Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Elizabeth Vincent) . A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Carefu
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlik Gibrans achievement Writing in English Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I s Bible fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon His language has a breath-taking beauty. Before returning to his birthplace Almustafa the prophet is asked for guidance by the people of Orphalese His words redolent with love and understanding call for universal unity and affirm Gibran s certatinty of the correlated nature of all existence and of reincamation. The Prophet has never lost its immediate appeal and has become a buiquitous touchstone of spiritual literature.
Tragedy stuikes the New Youk-based Cardinal Family when their car is involved in a serrible accident.Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive,but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma.Tt would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother,Louisa Mae,agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mouuntain farm. But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain.Determined to protect her home from the ravages of big business luisa Mae fefuses to sell,but when neghbours hear of the potential wealth the company could bring they begin to turn against her.And now the Cardinal family find themselves ensnared in another battle,to be played out in a crowede Virginnia cortroom:a battle for justice,for survival,and for the right to stay together in the only place they know as home.
The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James’s preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove. The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel’s textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James’s notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzella’s piece on film adaptation.
