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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves- and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now PENGOIN brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. One of the most iconoclastic thinkers ot all time,Friedrich Nietzsche contin-use to challenge the boundaries of con-ventional religion and morality with his subversive theories of the ‘superman’,the individual will,the death of God and the triumph of an all-powerful human life force.

This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student. It is the only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from MS Harley 2253, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in Brown XIV, and all the important poems given in Robbins?Secular Lyrics. In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged thematically. To make these delightful poems accessible to the modern reader, the editors have removed many of the orthographic impediments inherent in Middle English verse and have modernized punctuation, capitalization, and obsolete letters while scrupulously seeking to retain the substantive integrity of the poems. Critical and Historical Backgrounds are provided in essays by Peter Dronke, Stephen Manning, Raymond Oliver, and Rosemary Woolf. In a special section, six poems are singled out for critical comment by A. K. Moore, Edmund Reiss, D. W. Robertson, Jr., E. T. Donaldson, John Speirs, Thomas Jemielity, D. G. Halliburton,

David McCullough depicts the events of that fateful year with breathtaking imagination and flare, from the British decision to crush the Americans to the bitter setbacks and astonishing advances made by tile patriot army. Whether King George Ill and George Washington or ordinary soldiers and their families,McCullough re-creates a cast of amazingcharacters on both sides, destroys myths and uses eyewitness reports to brilliant effect, making 1776 the most compelling account of this seismic confilict.

Reading any great poem for the first time is always athrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and thiscollection brings together some of the best ever to read, memorize,or recite. Girls of all ages will enjoy reading poems cateredspecifically to them, whether it means envisioning adventures withprincesses and witches, or laughing at the antics of mischievouslittle girls. The book is divided into eight sections: Nature,Imagination, Love Friendship, Inspiration, Animals, NurseryRhymes, Limericks Tongue Twisters, and Fun Nonsense. 100 GREAT POEMS FOR GIRLS is a perfect introduction forthose encountering poetry for the first time, but readers who grewup with poems will also cherish this treasury of classics.

This volume offers a generous selection of works from each of Browning’s creative periods, emphasizing the years in which the memorable dramatic monologues were written. The experimental phase (1833-45) is represented by selections from Pauline (1833), Paracelsus (1835), Sordello (1840), Dramatic Lyrics (1842), and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), as well as by the complete text of Pippa Passes; the major phase (1855-69) by selections from Men and Women (1855), Dramatis Personae (1864), and The Ring and the Book (1868–69), of which Books V, VI, and X are reprinted; and the later achievement (after 1870) by selections from Fifine at the Fair (1872), Aristophanes’ Apology (1875), Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems (1876), Jocoseria (1883), Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887), and Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889). Browning’s Introductory Essay to the Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852) is also included. The annotations are designed to prov

Constance Garnett’s translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability. Dostoevsky’s sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynus’s Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevsky’s letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulsky’s essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevsky’s symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included. 作者简介：Ralph E. Matlaw was Profes

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings ...he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Throughout history，some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves- and each other. They have inspired debate，dissent，war and revolution.They have enlightened，outraged，provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now PENGOIN brings you the works of the great thinkers，pioneers，radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. William Hazlitt s tough combative writings o subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination boxing matches to the monarchy established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have in spired journalists and political satirists ever since.

The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-re

Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.

Comprehensively revised and updated, this Second Edition of Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques includes three of Jonson's most important plays-Volyoue, Epicoeue, and The Alchemist and three masques--Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and, new to the Second Edition, The Masque of Blackness, Jonson's first masque and one with particular interest to our own culture. Each work is accompanied by expanded textual annotations. New to this edition is a section on "Backgrounds and Sources," which gives selections from some of the principal texts that influenced Volpone and The Alchemist, such as those by gilliam Caxton, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Erasmus. Also included is helpful material about the history of alchemy. "Jonson on His Work" collects statements by the author on drama and poetry taken from his plays, from Discoveries, and from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. "Contemporary Readers on Jonson" includes tributes and poems about Jon

While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body and the floor around him covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others--and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle--while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move--the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.

On this, the centenary of its initial publication, The Turn of the Screw remains one of Henry James's most remarkable narratives, one whose popularity when it was published is matched by its power to stir readers today. It is one of James's most teachable texts, an indispensable reference point for such critical concerns as point of view and unreliable narration. As such, it is an invaluable introduction to the intricacies of James's styleand technique in the novels of the "major phase." This revised Norton Critical Edition of The Turu of the Screw is again based on the authoritative New York Edition text, with history and notes. "Contexts" includes twenty-six selections from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings centering on "my little book," the ghost story, and the supernatural. Four Charles Demuth paintings cluded. inspired by James's text, are in Since The Turu of the Screw has been a focal text in recent theoretical considerations of James and of the narrative generally, "Criticism"