In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history’s most repellent, and the theater’s most mesmerizing, figures. This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play with interpolations from the First Folio (1623). The play is accompanied by a preface, explanatory annotations, A Note on the Text, a list of Textual Variants, and eighteen illustrations of seminal scenes from major dramatic productions and film versions of the play. “Contexts” provides readers with the sources and analogues that informed Shakespeare’s composition of Richard III. These include excerpts from Robert Fabyan’s New Chronicles of England and France, Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III, Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The True Tragedy of Richard III. A selection from Colley Cibber’s eighteenth-century adaptation records the compr

Upon its publication in 1857, "Little Dorrit" immediatelyoutsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of WilliamDorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughterand helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progressof the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction,David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift fromwhich Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, hisnear-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense ofthe ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance." This ModernLibrary Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857edition.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of thegreatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessiblepaperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.”—John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerlessimaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prosestylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire,and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument ofecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous andcontroversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,”“The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs andSymbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from hismemoir Speak, Memory.

Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.

Deep in the jungles of Peru the contest of the century is underway.It's a race to locate a legendary Incan idol-one carved out of a strange kind of stone.But a stone which,in the present age,could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon. The US Army wants this prize at any cost.But they are not alone... The only clue to the idol's final resting place is to be found in a 400-year-bld maun*.Which introduces Professor William Race,a mild-mannered but brilliant young linguist,who is unwillingly recruited to interpret the document taht could lead the US team to the idol itself. So begins the mission that will lead Race and his armed companions to a mysterious stone temple hidden in the foothills of the Andes.This is a carefully contrived sanctuary seething with menace and unexpected dangers.But it is not until the silence of the temple is breched that Race and his team discover they have broken a golden rule...

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.

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not havemuch in the way of great expectations between his terrifyingexperience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and hishumiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful butmanipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevatedto wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettablecharacters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainablelove, and all of the happiness money can't buy. Great Expectationshas the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for anovel in the English language, according to John Irving, and J.Hillis Miller declares, Great Expectations is the most unified andconcentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world,and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.

Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merryviolence of slapstick and farce. When two sets of twins, separatedand apparently lost to each other, all end up in the rowdy,rollicking city of Ephesus, the stage is set for mix-ups, mayhem,and mistaken identity—plus the timeless puns, jokes, gags, andsuspense that makes this play a wonderful theatrical frolic and abrilliant tour de force of language and laughter. From the Paperback edition.

in might of a thousand boyfriends,youre going to have dinner with a man yor ve never met.it could be the per fectblind date—but the roadto romance is fraug ht with danget:torn stockings ,obnoxious roommates,maxed-out ATM aards ,adulterous husbbands and worse.can you surmount these obstacles and find true love? Orwill you be alone in bed remote control in hand,by9:30?lt all depends on the choices you make. 作者简介： MIRANDA CLARKE in philadelphia and often has difficulty making smart decisions （particularly when faced with a dessert tray）.She can be reached via e-mail at mirandaclarke1000@hotmail.com.

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn inShakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love sowholly." "The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeersshows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in thepersons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and allplaces."

Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel thatdraws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymoushero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness,heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, andvillains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maughamwrote: andquot; There were never such people as the Micawbers,Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, UriahHeep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens'sexultant imagination...you can never quite forget them.andquot;This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a newIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition tonew explanatory notes.

Here are some of the greastest stories of all time.The familiar titles,like Cinderella,are stories about things that are still important to us today,like families and loyalty,friendship and courage,getting along and making dreams come true. In this book,you will find stories that are favorites already,and others that will be new to you,but sure to become your favorites as well.