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。
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ," forself-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of HenryDavid Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical worksin all American literature. The selections in this volume representThoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are "Walden," hisindisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments fornonconformity, "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle." Alifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--isrecorded in selections from "A Week On The Concord And MerrimackRivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods" and "The Journal."
An international team of scholars offers:?? modernised, easilyaccessible texts?? ample but unobtrusive academic guidance??attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stagehistory?? informative illustations, including reconstructions ofearly performances --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.
在线阅读本书 An international team of scholars offers:?? modernised, easilyaccessible texts?? ample but unobtrusive academic guidance??attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stagehistory?? informative illustations, including reconstructions ofearly performances --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.
在线阅读本书 Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’sweekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge andinstantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel isnot the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might haveexpected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop . Compressed, stark, allegorical, itis a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrialrevolution–and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy ofmaterialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times andplaces. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters–includingthe heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternallynoble Stephen Blackpool– Hard Times carries a uniquelypowerful message and remains one of the most widely read ofDickens’s major novels.
The four plays selected for this collection--The Taming of theShrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and TheTempest--represent a significant stage in the development of theworld's greatest dramatist.
It s Valentines Day and Lola is busy!She s created just the right costume from her dress-up box to deliver secret valentines to everyone sht loves——even her big brother,Gilbert.
A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greekplaywrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis,Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among theTaurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women , and TheCyclops .
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached theheight of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette isBronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing evenJane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographicalLucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructorin a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, sheunexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as shewitnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome youngEnglishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This firstpain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy hastried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity anddisappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstintingvision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of themost insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness inEnglish literature.
Alex Jennings will be the reader for this unabridged recordingof the The Sonnets. --This text refers to the AudioCassette edition.
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, anautobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and astorehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the rawmaterial from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
The epic tale of Don Quixote and his faithful squire, SanchoPanza, and their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenthcentury Spain, form the basis of one of the great treasures ofWestern literature - a book that is both a hilarious satire of thechivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobilitycan be a form of madness. This brand-new, thoroughly moderntranslation, and the extensive introduction and footnotes, makeCervantes' masterpiece more delightful and accessible to Englishreaders than ever before.
Play in three acts by Luigi Pirandello, produced and publishedin Italian in 1921 as Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. IntroducingPirandello's device of the "theater within the theater," the playexplores various levels of illusion and reality. It had a greatimpact on later playwrights, particularly such practitioners of theTheater of the Absurd as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and JeanGenet, as well as Jean Anouilh and Jean-Paul Sartre.
A beautiful and hearty farm girl, Tess Durbeyfield is about tohave her life tragically changed by forces outside her control:lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. This controversial Victorian tale hascome to be recognized as a triumph of literary art.
Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's mostphilosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and timehas seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fineproductions have demonstrated the play's theatrical power, andcritics have explored and illuminated its ideas and itsexceptionally complex language. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction,sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd careerin the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiplesources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticismto a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallenworld. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title.
Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide thematerials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. Whenfour young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their ownmismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their livesbecome entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of theFairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for theforthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta,unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelousmix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touchedby Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationshipbetween art and life, dreams and the waking world.
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, ayoung Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreamsof wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing,filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in ajungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the"muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turnof the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of"wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, astory so shocking that it launched a government investigation,recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair isalso a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one ofthe most important -- and moving -- works in the literature ofsocial change. --This text refers to an alternate Mass MarketPaperback edition.
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in worldliterature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd,Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers thefinal summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant studyof the tragic clash between social authority and individualfreedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also exploresthis theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about aWall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—andultimately disastrous—extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzlingaccount of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slaveship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "TheEncantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville'schilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."
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.
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzlingpersonality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparklingcomedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever writtenfor the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popularnovel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “TheBallad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience;and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramaticsuccess, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventionalmorality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, andSalomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written inFrench and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection ofoutstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptlycalled “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.
From the exquisite lyric “ To Helen ,” to the immortalmasterpieces “ Annabel Lee,” “The Bells, ” and “ The Raven,”The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates theauthor’s gift for the form.
This is one of Shakespeare’s darkest comedies, for theromantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered hisfortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves isset against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylenderShylock and his demand for the “pound of flesh” owed him by theVenetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine withmoral complexity and romantic entanglement to display theextraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. 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 the play, alongwith an extensive filmography
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all elseperished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly,I "am" Heathcliff He's always, always in my mind: not as apleasure... but as my own being." "Wuthering Heights" is the onlynovel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, atthe age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that isstronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysicalpassion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, arepowerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, ithas become a classic of English literature.
