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

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.

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.

《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.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "A Tale of Two Cities" begins ona muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery anddrama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with oneof the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In betweenlies one of Charles Dickens's most exciting books- a historicalnovel that, generation after generation, has given readers accessto the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social andpolitical events. Famous for the character of Sydney Carton, whosacrifices himself upon the guillotine-"It is a far, far betterthing that I do, than I have ever done"-the novel is also apowerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused bythe Revolution, and is illuminated by Dickens's lively comedy. Thisedition reprints the original Everyman introduction by G. K.Chesterton and includes sixteen illustrations by Phiz.

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

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding thecreation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing acautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love withhis magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the bookwho doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. AnnaKarenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist intheir own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-centuryRussian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whosename it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by awriter. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The most famous day inliterature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom ofDublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires agirl on the beach, contemplates his wife's imminent adultery, and,late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the city'sred-light district. An earthy story, a virtuoso technical display,and a literary revolution all rolled into one, James Joyce's"Ulysses" is a touchstone of our modernity and one of the toweringachievements of the human mind.

(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

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

(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

(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.

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.

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