本书是理查·伯顿（Richard Francis Burton）穷30余年之功，从1852年开始，直到1888年才最终完成的《一千零一夜》的注译本。全书共17卷，前10卷为正文，第10卷末附有研究论文，后7卷被伯顿称为“补遗”。全书于1885～1888年间印行完成。
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To endthis brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier'sdaughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure,love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled withprinces and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits,tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band offorty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. Thesequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable pieceof antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a completetranslation has never been available before at an affordable price.Penguin's edition will change that. Compiled in a matter of monthsin 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, Domesday quicklyestablished itself as document of immense legal importance. It waslast consulted for legal precedent in 1982. It is also the mostremarkable portrait of England in thelate eleventh century. Thepublication of a complete translation of Great and Little Domesdayis already being eagerly anticipated by historians. There areadvance quotes from Norman Davies, Michael Wood, Roy Strong andAntonia Fraser.
本书是理查·伯顿（Richard Francis Burton）穷30余年之功，从1852年开始，直到1888年才最终完成的《一千零一夜》的注译本。全书共17卷，前10卷为正文，第10卷末附有研究论文，后7卷被伯顿称为“补遗”。全书于1885～1888年间印行完成。
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduouslyilluminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literaryallusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface,introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.
作者是乔纳森 洛克 哈特（JonathanLockeHart）,加拿大人，多伦多大学英语博士，剑桥大学历史学博士，加拿大皇家学会成员教授,在莎士比亚研究、文学批评理论和诗歌创作方面著作颇丰。曾作为上海交通大学外国语学院讲席教授。本书是 乔纳森 洛克 哈特文集 之一，为本系列丛书第六卷。作为诗人、学者和历史学家，加拿大皇家学会成员乔纳森 洛克 哈特教授因其在莎士比亚研究、文学批评理论和诗歌创作方面的著述颇丰。本书分为两个部分：部分主要收录多篇关于哈特理论及其著作的评述作品；第二部分则是对哈特的访谈录，编辑整理了哈特针对加拿大文学、诗歌创作、文学批评等多个领域之问题所做一些极富个人见解的回答。本书可为加拿大文学爱好者及相关研究者提供学术参考。
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworkingjournalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker andtraveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all agreat novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally inthe English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, DavidCopperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, and many more. At the ageof twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by hisaffectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromisingbeginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights,entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned,and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. Yetthe brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, hedisliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, hetook up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cutoff his impecunious children. Claire Tomalin, author of "WhitbreadBook of the Year Samuel Pepys", paints an unforgettable portrai
Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, EmilyDickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments inprosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional andintellectual explorations.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manu* featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before ...A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.
