The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in thejungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but ofall readers, for generations.
After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. ButPrince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroythe ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’sportrait of the prodigal son’s journey from youth to maturityembraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bateand Eric 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
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkablenovels that explore social class in America and the inner lives ofyoung Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative andsuspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluentsuburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession isnarrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who seeshimself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding aroundhim. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbedparents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisivelyanalyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious privateschooling, his "successful-executive" father, and his elusivemother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-oldRichard strikes out in a way that presages the violence ofever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come. A NationalBook Award finalist, "Expensive People" is a stunning combinationof social satire and gothic horror. "You cannot put this novel a
Lush de*ions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweavewith the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentiethcentury, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past.
Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his noblesin revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent lifeof revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeareexplores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly minglingof history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bateand Eric 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 s
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman,and a certified public intellectual with his own television show.He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterlyamoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of hisexistence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of afashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to killhimself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitelyseductive voice that Rojack murders his wife. In this wildbattering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vastcontroversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might bea fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would laterprofile in "The Executioner's Song." As Rojack runs amok throughthe city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peelsaway the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pureappetite and relentless cruelty. Sensual, horrifying, and informedby a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and onepart Charlie Par
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be reclusedespite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures ontothe streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulentsixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictionalsatyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in thatbook?"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers,advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders ofRobert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettledZuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure ofspeech. In Zuckerman Unbound--the second volume of the trilogy andepilogue "Zuckerman Bound"--the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckermanretreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuouswoman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionateconnection to his younger brother...and all because of his greatgood fortune
This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’sloveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalrywith a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest ofArden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as agentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage ofcharacters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her ownbanished father, and the banished young man she loves. Romantichappiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love, atthe ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in thismasterpiece of comic writing. 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 f
"The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman whotransforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals whoplan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology andher bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpectedchallenges in their quest to incite social change againstcomplacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of theintersections between the personal and the political, Nobellaureate Doris Lessing creates in "The Good Terrorist" a compellingportrait of domesticity and rebellion.
These two history plays—one written in the early days ofShakespeare’s career and one at the very end—are alike in thecomplexity of their political vision. King John probes thenature of good and evil as self-interest and ruthless ambitionproceed unchecked while an unpopular ruler wages a brutal fight tokeep his throne. Henry VIII is a sumptuous spectacle of pompand ceremony, as well as an exploration of the mysterious ways inwhich the rise and fall from power of individuals led ultimately toEngland’s destiny as a Protestant nation.
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the firstAmericantranslation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literarygenius to theNew World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classicalpoet Virgil leadsDante through the nine circles of Hell on theinitial stage of his journeytoward Heaven. Along the way Danteencounters and describes in vividdetail the various types ofsinners in the throes of their eternal torment.HENRY WADSWORTHLONGFELLOW, American poet, educator, andlinguist, wrote many longnarrative poems, including The Song ofHiawatha, Evangeline, and TheCourtship of Miles Standish.MATTHEW PEARL is the author of thenovel The Dante Club, pub-lished by Random House, and is a graduateof Harvard University andYale Law School. In 1998 he won theprestigious Dante Prize fromthe Dante Society of America for hisscholarly work. He lives in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts. LINO PERTILE is a professor of Romance languages and literatureatHarvard University. He specializes in Dante and the Latin MiddleAges.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attendedAmerica's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subvertsthe conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on theTexas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of theKid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into thenightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the marketfor their scalps is thriving.
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his nativeRussian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literarycareer. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the worksof Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: thestory of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished e migre poetliving in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--abook very much like The Gift itself.
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with PaulRoche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, andall-new translations of the remaining plays.
在线阅读本书 During the French Revolution's reign of terror, the mysteriousScarlet Pimpernel rescues helpless men, women, and children fromtheir doom in this unique, wonderfully colorful adventureclassic.
Alex Jennings will be the reader for this unabridged recordingof the The Sonnets. --This text refers to the AudioCassette edition.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of thetwentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitariansystem that provoked him into writing it has since passed intooblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in apolitical nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance andpower to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. InWinston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from anall-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendenciesapparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universalpredicament of the individual.
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story ofthe young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexualmisadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents.Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity,young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzyingreversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vastlandscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the"golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic andvisionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in ahistorical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorowin his new foreword. "Kafka made his first novel from his ownmind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research datathat caught his eye were bent like light rays in a field ofgravity."
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotionis played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomedmarriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorishgeneral, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. Thedifferences in race and background create an initial tension thatallows the horrifyingly envious villain Iago methodically topromote the “green-eyed monster” jealousy, until, in one of themost deeply moving scenes in theatrical history, the noble Moordestroys the woman he loves–only to discover too late that she wasinnocent. 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 fi
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be amodel cou-ple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young childrenand a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too youngand started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. AndApril never saw herself as a housewife.Yet they have always livedon the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.But now that certainty is about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, RichardYates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritualbirthright, betraying not only each other, but their bestselves.
