Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald,critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage,family, friendship - really worth? And how might they be otherwise? Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of the most important writers of the Modernist movement.
A master of the american short story Included in this richcollection are: "The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno,The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower," and "TheTown-Ho's Story."
在线阅读本书 Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White ishis first excursion into the genre. When the hero, WalterHartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters asolitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feelsimpelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plotis peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevishinvalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and theenigmatic woman herself.
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dreamof the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chineseliterature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "TheDreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E somedecades later. It continues the story of the changing fortunes ofthe Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai,after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldlyelements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence andcorruption, his karmic journey unfolds. Like a sleepwalker throughlife, Bao-yu is finally awakened by a vision, which reveals to himthat life itself is merely a dream, 'as moonlight mirrored in thewater'.
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to twodimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A.Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' exploresthis conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square,whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing thegospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium.Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work ofscience fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers'imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensionalprejudices'. In a world where class is determined by how many sidesyou possess, and women are straight lines, the prospects forenlightenment are boundless, and Abbott's hypotheses about a fourthand higher dimensions seem startlingly relevant today. This newedition of Flatland illuminates the social and intellectual contextthat produced the work as well as the timeless questions that itraises about the limits of our perception and knowledge. --Thist
I'his edition brings together Shakespeare’S incomparable sonnetsand his major long poems，Venus and Adonis，The Rape of Lucrece，and The Phoenix and the Turtle among them．Shakespeare came tomaturity during the peak of the influence of the sonnet--an Italianimport--on English Doets．And few would doubt he iS the greatestsonneteer the English language has ever produced．In their day boththe light Venus and Adonis and the more tragic Rape of Lucrece werepopularsuccef；ses，delightingboththeEarlofSouthamptontowhomthey were dedicated and the public at large．In an era in which playswere not treated seriously,it Was these long poents--now consideredrelatively minor--that first gave Shakespeare claim to being animportant poet．
Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular works of fiction published in England in the eighteenth century, and one of the best satires ever written. This new Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1726 text, the version that textual scholars now maintain should be the basis for all modern editions of the work. It is accompanied by extensive textual annotations and a dozen illustrations.
The star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet, the madness and vengeance of Hamlet, and the corrupting lust for power of Macbeth -- this collection of three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies is based on the acclaimed individual Folger editions of the plays. The present volume offers accurate texts in modern spelling, full explanatory notes, and scene-by-scene action summaries.
Living on the Nottinghamshire coalfields, the Morel family is beset with conflict. Gertrude, disillusioned with her inarticulate working class husband, pours her energies and aspirations into her son, Paul. Tensions develop when Paul falls in love and seeks to escape from his family ties.
While Mandelbaum and the University of California Press are to be commended for attempting this new translation of The Odyssey , those of Robert Fitzgerald (Doubleday, 1963) and Richard Lattimore (Harper & Row, 1968) still remain the versions of choice for serious students who don't know Greek. Mandelbaum's poetry is fluent but lacks the feeling for the original that he brought to his fine translations of Virgil ( The Aeneid of Virgil , Bantam, 1976) and Dante ( The Divine Comedy: The Inferno , Bantam, 1982). There is a looseness in the translation that often misses the intricacy and interconnection of The Odyssey as a whole. Illustrated with engravings, this is essentially a coffee-table book. Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult chal
In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed....In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible....In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. Only the Queen of Crime could have conceived such delicious treats for mystery lovers. Only the inimitable Herule Poirot and Miss Marple could solve them with such chilling perfection.
The best-selling survey of American literature from its beginnings to the present day is now brought to readers in an innovative revision. Here are the classic writers of the American tradition-from Wheatley and Franklin to Poe and Dickinson to Cather, Hemingway, and Ellison. Eleven major works are included in their entirety, among them Nature, Song of Myself, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Daisy Miller, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, and Howl. Here too are contemporary and newly recovered writers and traditions-from Native American Trickster tales to the early best-selling writers Susanna Rowson and Fanny Fern to the contemporary bestsellers Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko. Helpful introductions, headnotes, bibliographies, maps, and timelines accompany the texts.
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatestnovels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, TheGolden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy whoprefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai,his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beautyDai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich,magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries,political intrigues, even murder - within the context of theBuddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion andkarma determines the shape of our lives.
This Third Edition of Tess of the d'Urbert,illes intro-duces a new text--that of the Clarendon edition(1983), edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell.The text is fully annotated and includes, for ease of refer- ence, a separate table of contents for the novel. Also new to the Third Edition are reproductions of Hardy's map of Wessex and the manu* title page for the First Edition. "Hardy and the Novel" includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos, passages from Michael Millgate's biogra-phy of Hardy that depict the relationship between parts of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the author's own life, and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrelt's introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manu*s and early printed editions of the novel. "Criticism" features three new contemporary reviews including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Also new to the Third Edition is "A Chat with Mr. Hardy," a hitherto un-reprinted post-publicatio
Book De*ion Subtitled "A RomanticNovel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race", "The Torrents ofSpring" - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodiesthe themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers of hisgeneration. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, butthe snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of forChicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up withYogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire onconventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yetstrangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, "The Torrents ofSpring" throws light on Hemingway's later work - and is a delightto read. Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.8 width:(cm)11.1
EXCITEMENT AND SUSPENSE FROM THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE Archaeologist Leo Mallory is on a dig. But this is no ordinary assignment. He’s deep in the heart of the Mexican jungle uncovering another centuries-old Mayan city. Like a surgeon performing a most-intricate operation, Leo and his team skilfully remove each crumb of earth with the utmost precision. THE JAGUAR MASK In France, Declan Carberry is busy trying to solve a string of ritual serial murders. Horrific in the extreme, the questions are who and why? Declan needs to move fast, for time is running out. Delving into the history of the Conquistadors and the Maya of South America, this vertiginous tale of snaring and netting, old rituals and modern codes, blood-letting and immortality is Easterman at his dizzying best. “A master of spooky suspense and of the chapter cliffhanger”THE SCOTSMAN 'The Jaguar Mask' will satisfy anyone who appreciates an old-fashioned well plotted adventure thriller which has been given a hard moder
For three young friends it had been the most golden of summers. But the fire on Snake Mountain, spawned on a moonless night by a single shaft of lightning, was to burn a brand upon all their lives. After a tragic death for which she holds herself accountable teacher Julia Bishop is forced to choose between the two men she loves. The one she spurns embarks on a dark journey to the heart of human suffering. Reckless of a life he no longer values, war photographer Connor Ford finds fame but never happiness, until another fateful day when he must walk through fire once more - for Julia, her child and all he holds dear.
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron; ruthless manipulator,brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellin cartel. A man whoseimportance in the international drug trade and renown for hischaritable work among the poor brought him influence and power inhis home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of theAmerican courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President'sdetermination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the bestbargaining tools he could find: hostages. In the winter of 1990,ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abductedand held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the governmentinto blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, andfrom their harrowing stories Marquez retells, with vivid clarity,the terror and uncertainty of those dark and volatile months.
As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities ofthe human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of anextraordinary range of characters. In "Making an Elephant", hisfirst ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Swift bringstogether a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry,and reflections on his life in writing, full of insights into hispassions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family, andother writers who have mattered to him over the years. KazuoIshiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrivesfor Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of aDevon river. There are private moments, too, with long-deadwriters, as well as musings on history and memory that readers ofSwift's novels will recognize and love. 'A rewarding collection,with the same humanity and flair for detail that distinguishesSwift's fiction.
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel thatdraws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymoushero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness,heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, andvillains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maughamwrote: andquot; There were never such people as the Micawbers,Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, UriahHeep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens'sexultant imagination...you can never quite forget them.andquot;This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a newIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition tonew explanatory notes.
Beowulf , by Anonymous , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers qualityeditions at affordable prices to the student and the generalreader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages ofcarefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable featuresof Barnes Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers andscholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporaryhistorical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes andendnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems,books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired bythe work Comments by other famous authors Study questions tochallenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographiesfor further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriateAlleditions are beautifully designed and are printed to superiorspecifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellationof influences—biographic
