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。

传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne,everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. Butwhen Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with talesof a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girlhidden within it, he has been changed forever. In his restlesssearch for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there,Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losingeverything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration andadult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries thereader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal ofdesperate friendship and vanished adolescence.

The blind energies and defiant acts that bring an ambitiousmanto power can also destroy him. This is the theme thatThomas Hardyexplores through his greatest and mosttragic hero: MichaelHenchard, the driven grain merchant of Casterbridge. From hisdrunken sale of his wife and baby at a county fair to hissubjugation of a farming village, Henchard's life is an epicattempt to bring the world to heel as he hides, even from himself,all vestiges of emotionalvulnerability. Combining the suspense of amystery with the poetry of the most powerful English novels, TheMavyor of Casterbridge is a masterpiece of psychological insightand profound tragedy.

After King Shahryar had his wife killed for cheating, he beganto corrupt-then kill-one virgin a night, as revenge on womankind.Then he meets Scheherazade, who, night after night, saves her ownlife by telling him fantastical tales of genies, wishes, terror,and passion.

The series of which this title forms a part examines the wayin which all the major editions of Shakespeare's plays have beeninterpolated by a series of editors who have been systematicallychanging Shakespeare's texts from the 18th century onwards. Thistext looks at "Measure for Measure". --This text refers to anout of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism,the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, andBerlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In thisseries of provocative, passionate, and wittyessays, Umberto Ecoexamines a wide range of phenomena,from Harry Potter, the Tower ofBabel, talk shows, and the Enlightenment to The Da Vinci Code/ Whatled us, he asks,into this age of hot wars and media populism, andhow was it sold to us as progress? In Turning Back the Clock, thebestselling author and respected scholar turns his famous intellecttoward events both local and global to look at where our troubledworld is headed.

This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are nowgenerally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding the Sonnets. Itcontains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and theTurtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. Theintroduction to the two long narrative poems examines their placewithin the classical and Renaissance European traditions, an issuewhich also applies to The Phoenix and the Turtle. John Roe analysesthe conditions in which the collection was produced, and weighs theevidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover'sComplaint and the much-debated question of its genre. Hedemonstrates how in his management of formal tropes Shakespeare,like the best Elizabethans, fashions a living language out ofhandbook oratory. This updated edition contains a new introductorysection on recent critical interpretations and an updated readinglist.

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosenby the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Readprogram. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains suchfamously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as "TheTell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask ofAmontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum," and suchunforgettable poems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee."Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story,represented here by "The Purloined Letter," "The Mystery of MarieRoget," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Also included is his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," inwhich he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describinghow he constructed "The Raven" as an example.

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.

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells hissoul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full ofstinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of DorianGray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when itfirst appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence andcorrupting influence, and a few years later the book and theaesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trialsoccasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted inhis imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde notedin a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry whatthe world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages,perhaps."

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us hisfirst cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched,interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essentialcharacter. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turningfrom the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring tastein music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . Astruggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failingmarriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . A gifted,underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe thatplastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whosetutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . . Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of thetwo—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, inone way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment ofreckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes justeluding their grasp. An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable fo

One of the most famous travel books ever written by anAmerican, here is an irreverent and incisive commentary on the "NewBarbarians'" encounter with the Old World. Twain's hilarious satireimpales with sharp wit both the chauvinist and thecosmopolitan.

The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, AHouse for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired byNaipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentiethcentury's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fightingagainst destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only toface a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to anotherafter the drowning death of his father, for which he isinadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he cancall home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family onwhom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on anarduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him andpurchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy ofmanners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s questfor autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Charles Dickens's final,unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highlyatmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and thenightmarish novels of Kafka. As in many of Dickens's greatestnovels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action.Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, thestory rapidly darkens with a sense of impending evil. Central tothe plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity andbenevolence; in private he is an opium addict. And while seeming tosmile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact,consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy's fiancee and toplot the murder of Edwin himself. Though "The Mystery of EdwinDrood" is one of its author's darkest books, it also bustles with avast roster of memorable-and delightfully named-minor characters:Mrs. Billikins, the landlady; the foolish Mr. Sapsea; thedomineering phi

The 1920s novel of a passion threatened by convention andplayed outagainst a backdrop of New York City-s upper class,unimaginable wealth,and unavoidable tragedy.

In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, ayoung Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreamsof wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing,filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in ajungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the"muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turnof the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of"wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, astory so shocking that it launched a government investigation,recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair isalso a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one ofthe most important -- and moving -- works in the literature ofsocial change. --This text refers to an alternate Mass MarketPaperback edition.

A pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing theother has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourningfor her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall ofher puritanical steward. Disguise, confusion, and mistaken identityfollow in Shakespeare’s great comedy of love in all itsmanifestations. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay 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, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions fro