戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们

'Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious ...' Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother. Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating Puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her ladyship's fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret—a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind ...

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.

The deepest waters hide the darkest secrets.... When the body ofa murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she'sable to wash away the blood--but not the terror. Unwelcomenewcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenageson are treated with suspicion by the locals, including thesheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town'splacid surface for the truth--except the killer. Running from amessy divorce, Elizabeth believed buying a small-town newspaperoffered a fresh start for herself and her son. But idyllic StillCreek, nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, hides secretsdangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Now Elizabethmust risk everything to save herself and her son, and to unmask thekiller...before the current of evil flowing through Still Creekdrags her under. When Elizabeth Stuart searched for a quiet,peaceful home for herself and her son, Still Creek seemed perfect.Nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, this small, idyllicMinnes

EMMA，first published in 1816,was written when jane Austen was at the height of her powers.in it ,we have her two greatest comic creations the eccentric Mr.Woodhuse and that quintessential bore,Miss Bates, In it,too we have her most profound characterization;the witty,imaginative,self-deluded Emma,a heroine the author declared“no one but myself will much like,”but who has been much loved by generations of redaders ,Delightfully funny,full of rich irony,EMMA is regarded as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements.

Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a member of his own family is murdered the Count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jacob Tausk, a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends even beyond the province. In the wake of new terrorist attacks, a mysterious preacher appears - one of the so-called wonder rabbis from the shtetls of the East - trailing a band of fanatical disciples who proclaim him the Messiah. Soon Tausk finds himself serving two masters: the Count and the richest man in the province, Moritz Rotenburg, whose only son has returned from his studies burning for revolution, ready to gather disciples of his own. Compelling and brilliantly imagined, Conspirators evokes the thousand-year-old Habsburg empire on the edge of collapse and conjures the erotic, mystical, political and apocalyptic passions o

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland. Written with a light touch,this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.

Kindly,respected Dr. Henry Jekyll is convinced that all men have two personalities lurking within them. He concocts a drug to separate one man into two personalities and tests it on himself. Enter Mr. Hyde- jekkyll's murderous alter ego -as depraved and vicious as jekyll is virtuous and kindly. Robert Louis Stevensons'shocking thriller explores the battle between good and evil within ourselves. Can Jekyll overcome Hyde-or will he become Hyde's mext victim? 作者简介： Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland ,in 1850. He was a frail child, who was greatly influenced by his father's punishments and by his nurse's horrifying tales of demons. Stevenson refused to follow the family profession of engineering and chose law when he went to the Umiversity of Edinburgh to study. But he soon gave that up and turned to writing, which his poor health could not deter. Sstevenson and his family spent his last years on the South Pacific island of Samoa, where he continued his writin

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remined in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled. If you don't recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than human. If you can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information; A chronology of the author's life and work; A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context; An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations; Detailed explanatory notes; Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work; Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction; A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience. Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON. 作者简介： Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1

Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drarna are irnplied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains sorne of the most important of his earliest and shortest cornic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. Throughout, the doctor-turned-writer displays cornpassion for human suffering and misfortune, but is always able to see the comical, even farcical aspects of the hunlan condition. Chekhov sees and depicts life with unwavering honesty and truthfulness, although a clear moral sense can be detected beneath his apparent objectivity.

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction. 作者简介： Milton Crane is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at George Washington University and the University of Chicago. His is the author several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.

Macbeth is one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies: a drama of crime and punishment, of temptation, guilt, remorse and retribution. The portrayals of Macbeth himself and his wife are memorably persuasive in the rendition of the psychology of ambition,rationalised treachery and eventual disillusionment. Repeatedly the rich and often sinuously complex verse gives general resonance to the particular situation, so that some of the speechesprovide enduring epitomes of states of being which many of us,intermittently, may experience. Inner division, pangs of conscience, the sense of being ambushed by events, and desperatedefiance: they are there; but so too is a vitality of expression and enactment which offsets the plays sombre atmosphere.

Grade 5-8-This exciting historical novel opens in the year 1893when the Oklahoma Land Rush is in full swing. Cissy Sissney and herparents have just arrived to stake a claim in the future town ofFlorence. Their mode of transportation is a train, the Red RockRunner, soon to become a major factor in the story. Angered thatthe settlers can't be talked into selling him their claims, therailroad owner vows never to allow stops in Florence. He becomesall the more determined when his son throws his lot in with thetown. If the newcomers can't change his mind, their town is doomed.A colorful cast of characters works to solve this dilemma but everyplan seems destined to fail. A teacher is hired and opens theworld's most unconventional school, and everyone is thrilled when atraveling troupe of actors comes to town. So well do they performtheir melodrama that a member of the audience stands up and shootsthe villain, who then stays and becomes another citizen ofFlorence. There is also a real villain and a major feud betwe

In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L'Amour's solitary wanderingSackett brothers make a stand together--to save one of their own.The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside.And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Loganfaces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattlefrom Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, hemust brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties.But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett'severy move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. TellSackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will bringaid to Logan--or die trying.

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.

One of Sir Walter Scott's most celebrated novels,Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first lacobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the lacobite cause. He achieves great fame by his kindness to and sympathy for the poor and oppressed and he is sought out by Francis Osbaldstone and his spirited sweetheart Diana Vernon in their struggle with their malign kinsman, Rashleigh. Rob Roy is a truly heroic tale set against the turmoil surrounding the Hanovarian succession.

#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag mixes mysteryand romance in this moving classic novel of a missing woman and thesearch that brings together the unlikeliest of lovers.... She was ablond goddess, a box office megastar. Every woman wanted to be her;every man wanted to bed her. But over a year ago Devon Staffordvanished without a trace. As a biographer, Jake Gannon had taughthimself to follow the clues of a person's life story like adetective. As an ex-Marine, he was accustomed to being firmly incontrol. But when his car died in a little town called Mare's Neston the Carolina coast, he had to admit he'd come to a dead end.There he met a .38-toting tow-truck driver named Dixie La Fontaine.She was no celebrity, but Dixie had an irresistible sex appeal allher own. What did this down-to-earth woman know about a missingmovie star? Surprisingly, quite a lot. And Jake was going touncover it all...if Dixie didn't end up shooting him first.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violentnovel of expectation, love. oppression, sin, religion and betrayal.It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of HelenHuntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and herdissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leavesher husband to protect their young son from his father'sinfluence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hidingat Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham. who falls inlove with her. On its first publication in 1848, Anne Bront 's second novel was criticised for being 'coarse' and 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands. Anne Bront 's style is bold, naturalistic and passionate, and this novel, which her sister Charlotte considered 'an entire mistake', has earned her a position in English Literature in her own right，not just as

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Ride the River Louis L' Amour spinsthe tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortunefrom a murderous thief -- and teaches him what it means to be aSackett.... Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far fromher Tennessee home -- until she made the long trek to Philadelphiato collect an inheritance. Echo could take care of herself as wellas any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer, figuredthat cheating the money from the young country girl would be liketaking candy from a baby. If he couldn't hoodwink Echo out of thecash, he' d just steal it from her outright. And if she put up afight? There were plenty of accidents that could happen to acountry girl on her first trip to the big city....