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。

In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a characteras compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable HenryBech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in aworld of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, heviews life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make youlaugh with delight and wince in recognition.

From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countrysideblacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of navalhero Admiral Nelson, England’s most famous native son. She servedas model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe’s most renownedartists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court ofNaples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, pennilessand alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps thespectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beautyEmma, Lady Hamilton—as she came to be called—a woman of abundantaffection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity wasrivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal.Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics,passions, and enchantments of her day.

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and itsunflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a stormof controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly inresponse, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writingaltogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though wehave come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuingcentury, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power toshock us and disturb our dreams.

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.

One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, filled with fierce,violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, andguilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of thesupernatural. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate andEric 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 standard in Shakespeareanliterature for the twenty-first century.

"In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedicationto the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader withsomething of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancientGreeks."--Time "There has been no adequate translation of Plato sinceJowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts * Rouse is one of the world's most respected classical scholars--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable ofilluminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all ofhuman experience."--Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, BenTurnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but thewanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a UnitedStates in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China,to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if charactersappear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbull'sjournal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Ben's ruthlessness isevenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on everyscene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerieambiance." --The New York Times Book Review "A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER'S WONDER . .. Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chillybackdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eyefor detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen." --Th

Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon'EVENING STANDARD 'Delightfully observant nostalgia.., will strike a chord with both sexes' SHE 'A warm, funny romantic comedy' DAILY MAIL 'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' THE TIMES "Thirty means only going to the pub if there,s somewhere to sit down, Thiity means owning at least one classical CD, even if it's New That's What I Call Classical Vol 6. Thirty means calling off the search for the perfect partner because now, after al! thee years in the wilderness, you've finally found what you've been looking for." Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him.and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Within hours,his mum and dad

With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolutionbrings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving peoplerising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadentregime.

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings likethemselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens,fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in theircruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom forthe more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, authorof Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

In Forster's most popular novel, he tracks British society'sclass warfare, as seen by members of three different castes-thewealthy Wilcoxes, the cultured and emancipated Schlegal sisters,and poor, young Leonard Bast.

Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, LaEsmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, thehunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled themwith his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm andran with her into the church. A moment later he appeared at the topof the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed hertriumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roaredsavagely to the sky: "Sanctuary Sanctuary Sanctuary " Set amid theriot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo'smasterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennialfavorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of themost thrilling stories of all time.

These three masterworks placed the great seventeenth-centuryEnglish poet Milton beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, andVirgil in the pantheon of world literature. A monumental achievement,Parudise Lost is the epic poem about the magnificent Lucifer, whose failed rebellion against Heaven's tyranny casts him into thedarkness of Hell and leads to man's fall from grace. SamsonAgonistes, the greatest English drama modeled on the Greekclassics, depicts blinded, once-mighty Samson regaining his strength as God's champion and delivering his people-whilede-stroying himself and his captors. And "Lycidas" is animmortal elegy on lost hopes and the nature of fate. Written in a grandstyle of superb power, these works display a majesty of lan- guage, a sublime wealth of detail, and the unmistakable genius ofone of literature's greatest minds.

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published justafter Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950sChicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brillianta fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined bysocial and ethical constraints and by moral compulsionsconspicuously different from those of today. Newly discharged fromthe Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freedfrom old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach isdrawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and toLibby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected tothe ordered andquot; world of feelingandquot; that he finds inbooks is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes'struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager loveaffairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously,Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, aspirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable

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.

On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resignedhimself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to awoman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lostpossibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver,arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort toescape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, andenduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of twotragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscienceand necessity. Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone andthree short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and“Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of theextraordinary range and power of one of America’s finestwriters.

The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, awicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study ofa man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. Thesetting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renownedpianist, has come to give the most important performance of hislife. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic andinfuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital cluesto his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that isitself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant withhumanity and wit. "A work of great interest and originality....Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all hisown...frankly fantastic and] fiercer and funnier thanbefore."--"The New Yorker"