This collection of 100 of O Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America’s best and best-loved short story writers。 The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of ’the four million’ ordinary citizens who inhabited turn--of-the-century New York。They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humour that have made O Henry’s stories popular for the last century。
From the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of SirLancelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epicadventures with the supernatural as well as timeless battles without own humanity.
Includes: The Tempest - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Winter's Tale - Much Ado About Nothing - AsYou Like It - Cymbeline - The Two Gentlemen ofVerona - The Merchant of Venice - King Lear - Macbeth - All's Well that Ends Well - The Tamingof the Shrew - The Comedy of Errors - Measure forMeasure - Twelfth Night - Timon of Athens - Romeo and Juliet - Hamlet - Othello - Pericles
The master storyteller-in short form Famous for his novels, Hawthorne was first a short story writer.This collection includes his most powerful and penetrating stories,including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's BlackVeil."
Henry James's last completed novel，The Golden Bowl，is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father，Adam，are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant，who is the former lover of Maggie's husband，the impoverished Italian，Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem. This new edition includes a critical introduction and extensive notes, rendering Chapman’s extraordinary poetic masterpiece accessible to modern readers.
Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations isas fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it wasfirst published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, theenergetic, cynical, and self-assured `nihilist' who repudiates theromanticism of his elders, shook Russian society. Indeed the imageof humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities andprejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any politicalor religious persuasion, and is especially potent in the modernera. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World'sClassics, is the first to draw on Turgenev's working manu*,which only came to light in 1988. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. About this book: Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love. The beautiful personification of some of the main characters has caused Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and the Nurse to become part of the world's literary mythology. Love, sex and death are the components in this story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love,
Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctivegenres- from fairy tales to erotica-revealing the customs andsocieties in the medieval Middle East, as told by the mythicSheherazade.
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.
The classic tale of adventure and romance—in a vibrant newpackage
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life,the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuitof love and success... "Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is atheart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realisticmethod. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power."-TheNew York Times Book Review
Widely regarded as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's literary masterwork chronicles the exploits of noble knight-errant Don Quixote of la Mancha and his squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel throughout sixteenth-century Spain seeking glory and grand adventure.
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.
In her lifetime, Marian Evans (1819-80) was celebrated under her pen name of George Eliot as England's greatest living novelist. Today, she is known primarily as the bane of school kids who, having SILAS MARNER thrust down their throats, learn to despise the written word. Dove seeks to make palatable this dreaded tome, about an idealistic orphan who discovers his Jewish heritage in the course of rescuing a Jewish singer and giving succor to the beautiful Gwendolen, who is trapped in a bad marriage. Like Beacham, Bron negotiates the author's difficult locutions with comprehension and aplomb. Unfortunately her Masterpiece Theaterish delivery loses some of Eliot's personality. However, she so masterfully and assuredly puts across the text and so insightfully presents the characters that we can forgive her the lapse into the prevailing fashion. If you're a former school kid wondering just what the heck makes this novel living literature, you may find out by picking up this audiobook.
A mix of writers historical and modern, male and female, thisanthology includes works by such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin,Martin Luther King, Jr., Erma Bombeck, Sandra Cisneros, AlbertEinstein, Abigail Adams, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, and John F.Kennedy.
Book De*ion This farce follows SirJohn Falstaff--of the Henry IV plays--as he tries to woo twowealthy married women in this classic comedy. Includes specialIntroductions to the play by Green, a comprehensive stage historyof the play, and much more. Revised reissue. Book Dimension length: (cm)16.8 width:(cm)10.4
Two boys: the same age, almost the same face. The onedifference: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudoris heir to the throne. How insubstantial this difference is becomesclear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing andof roles...
