FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRSTAUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’SFIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES. Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623,the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably themost important literary work in the English language. But startingwith Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day,Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, graduallycorrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflatedtextual variations. Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s mostaccomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio asa complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for thetwenty-first century. Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary andtextual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values,this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theaterprofessionals, and general readers alik

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Charles Dickens's most celebratednovel and the author's own favorite, "David Copperfield" is theclassic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turnsmagical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is partfairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmuteshis life experience into a brilliant series of comic andsentimental adventures in the spirit of the greateighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers canfail to be touched by David's fate, and fewer still to be delightedby his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, theunctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself,into whose portrait Dickens puts so much of his own early life,form a central part of our literary legacy. This edition reprintsthe original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includesthirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Alexandre Dumas's epic novel ofjustice, retribution, and self-discovery--one of the mostenduringly popular adventure tales ever written--in a newly revisedtranslation. This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes,wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable seafortress, the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and afterunearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner,he devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing theenemies who wronged him. Though a brilliant storyteller, Dumas wasgiven to repetitions and redundancies; this slightly streamlinedversion of the original 1846 English translation speeds thenarrative flow while retaining most of the rich pictorialde*ions and all the essential details of Dumas's intricatelyplotted and thrilling masterpiece.

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn , the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Naguib Mahfouz's magnificentepic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for thefirst time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is theengrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain'soccupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.The novels of "The Cairo Trilogy" trace three generations of thefamily of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, whorules his household with a strict hand while living a secret lifeof self-indulgence. "Palace Walk" introduces us to his gentle,oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija,and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolutehedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal.Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond hisdomination in "Palace of Desire," as the world around them opens tothe currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoilbrought by the 1920s. "Sugar Street" brings Mahfouz's vividtapestr

《The Norton Anthology of English Literature : Roman》讲述了：Readby millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthologyof English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate surveyof English literature available and one of the most successfulcollege texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmarkstrengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpfulintroductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts whereverpossible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature has beenrevitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaborationbetween six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the directionof Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors havereconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even betterteaching tool.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From one of the most brilliantand influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, sixshort stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both hisessays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913--1960) de-ployed hislyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing anaffirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of auniverse devoid of order or meaning. "The Plague"-written in 1947and still profoundly relevant-is a riveting tale of horror,survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic."The Fall" (1956), which takes the form of an astonishingconfession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is ahaunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The sixstories of "Exile and the Kingdom "(1957) represent Camus at theheight of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting hischaracters-from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife -atdecisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictionalcounterparts, Camus's famous essays

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Three classic crime novels by amaster of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for thefirst time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, PatriciaHighsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--noteven murder-- to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself theopulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself tobe a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbinglysympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmithnavigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinistergames, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into themind of a man utterly indifferent to evil. The Talented Mr.RipleyIn a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmithintroduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry Jamesnovel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal youngAmerican back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself veryfond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly likehim.

Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the mostimportant writer ever to cross the boundary between one languageand another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English afterhis forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent inRussian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, hebridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously. Here,collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov alwayswished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse,presented next to the Russian originals. Here, also, are some ofhis notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With anintroduction by Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning biographyof Nabokov, "Verses and Versions" is a momentous and authoritativecontribution to Nabokov's published works.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's toweringreputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modernsensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelisticvirtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense andmelodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work soimmensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. "The BrothersKaramazov," his last and greatest novel, published just before hisdeath in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between theoutsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It isabove all the story of a murder, told with hair-raisingintellectual clarity and a feeling for the human conditionunsurpassed in world literature. This award-winning translation byRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-the definitive version inEnglish-magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies ofDostoevsky's masterpiece.

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel isconsidered by many to be her greatest. First published ininstallments in 1874-76, "Daniel Deronda" is a richly imagined epicwith a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda, a high-minded youngman searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a seriesof dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the Englishcountry-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beautytrapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives ofa poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers thelong-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving andsuspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experiencepreviously unknown to the Victorian novel.

Book De*ion Read by millions of students over seven editions, The NortonAnthology of English Literature remains the most trustedundergraduate survey of English literature available and one of themost successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded bythe hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough andhelpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete textswherever possible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature hasbeen revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaborationbetween six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the directionof Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors havereconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even betterteaching tool. About Author Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor ofthe Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of TheNorton Shakespeare, he is the author of nine books, including Willin the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet inPurgatory, Practicing New Historic

Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickenscompleted and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basicplot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, arocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host ofunforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing theauthor's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, andthe story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The moodis set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, andhis daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned menwhose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to theauthorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that islater identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning fromabroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered andthrown into the river. Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happensin the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on thecondition that he marry a girl he'd

(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

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold inthis country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behindthe place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are wherehistory ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a partof England where nothing of any great significance has happenedsince the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider howvery little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he foundit in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea ofjourneying about his house from room to room to “write a history ofthe world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasionfor a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; thekitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson showshow each has fig?ured in the evolution of private life. Whateverhappens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in thepaint and the pi

Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of- and theaspirations and machinations at work in - her own social milieu.Through the stories of her spirited heroines and their circles,their interactions and rituals, their movements from ballrooms todrawing rooms, from London and Bath to parklands and gardens, sherecreates the life of The English gentry that she observed in thelate eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of her novels is a love story and a story about marriage -marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. Butthey are not romances; ironic, comic, wise and penetrating, theyare brilliant portrayals of the society Jane Austen knew.