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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.

"The Metamorphosis and Other Stories," by Franz Kafka, is partof the ""Barnes and 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 and Noble Classics": New introductions commissioned fromtoday's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and culturalevents Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations,parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, andfilms inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Studyquestions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further reading Indices and Glossaries, whenappropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed tosuperior specifications; some include illustrations of historicalinterest. "Barnes and Noble Classics "pulls together

The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship, and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station. Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation

"Emma," by Jane Austen, is part of the "Barnes and NobleClassics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordableprices to the student and the general reader, including newscholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully craftedextras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes andNoble Classics": New introductions commissioned from today's topwriters and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies ofcontemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations,parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, andfilms inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Studyquestions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further reading Indices and Glossaries, whenappropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed tosuperior specifications; some include illustrations of historicalinterest. "Barnes and Noble Classics "pulls together aconstellation of influences-biograph

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

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.

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964,Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meantto be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. Acorrespondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived inParis in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and atthe beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape:Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; JamesJoyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin,had just completed Ulysses; Gertude Stein held court at 27rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of ruegénération perdue; and T. S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London.It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished youngwriter gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun AlsoRises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.

first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers' lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seve dead. The rea toll may have reached fifty. "A chilling, real-life detective story." -Savannah News-Press Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chror micle in 1968 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer broughtto justice. In this gripping account Zodiac's eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hur dreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer's letters.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding--that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives--the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness--are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made TheKiteRunner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love--a stunning accomplishment.

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Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than anovel, the intricately structured chapters in this highlyautobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . waysof seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series ofevents, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire,circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up toOxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister's death: thesejourneys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detailrecaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuancedobservations of the natural world and his own interior landscape,he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitudeand paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testamentof a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment,alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness,vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that i

(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