经由这部20世纪的情爱经典，读者可以踏上战前法国知识分子心灵的黑暗之旅。 彼时，欧洲正疯狂滑向法西斯主义的深渊。正值西班牙内战，亨利 托普曼离开巴黎的病床，前往巴塞罗那，在那里见证了加泰罗尼亚大罢工。让他进退维谷的三个女人这时也来到了巴塞罗那：拉扎尔，马克思主义犹太人和政治活动家，如果被捕，她可能被佛朗哥政权迫害；蒂尔媞（多萝西娅），无节制的酒精沉迷者，她是托普曼的性伴侣；格耶妮，一个年轻女子，在巴黎期间，她曾照料发高烧的托普曼。 作为巴塔耶公开的政治作品之一，它将暴力、权力和死亡结成可怖的一体，同时探索性作为一种颠覆力量的模棱两可。

本书由三个文本组成。 *个文本是D（狄亚努斯）的日志，它构成了被称为 鼠的故事 的*部分。这部分以D的视角展开，记述了他与B的情乱，同时，在这场混乱的激情中，A（阿尔法主教）作为一个衔接D与B之关系的人物在场。 *部分也涉及了D与E的情乱，而这构成了第二个文本的记述核心。第二部分被称为 狄亚努斯 ，是A的笔记。这部分以A的视角展开。 这两个文本共同结构了本书的故事。被称为 俄瑞斯忒斯 的第三部分则更像是一个总的视角，或者说，一则诗性概述。它由诗歌和诗论组成。巴塔耶写道： 为了在一片明显的不可能中抓住一丝可能，我必须首先想象相反的情境。

传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

一个小男孩种下一颗胡萝卜种子。?? ??他的妈妈说：“这颗种子恐怕不会工芽。”?? ??他的爸爸也说：“它恐怕不会发芽。”?? ??他的哥哥也说：“它不会发芽。”??

Voltaire's shocking wit and biting portrayal of the eighteenthcentury church and aristocracy are now showcased in a newtranslation of Candide, a bestseller in its time and essentialreading for a deeper understanding of Voltaire and Enlightenmentthought. Preserving the text's provocative nature as well as itsaccuracy, Daniel Gordon has paid special attention to improving notonly the rendering of particular words, but to Voltaire's semanticovertones by amplifying the book's innuendo, enhancing Candide'sreadability and ensuring that readers will not miss bold featuresof the story. The introduction places Candide and Voltaire in theirhistorical context, relating the complexities of Voltaire's life tothe events, philosophy, and characters of Candide, showingprecisely why the Enlightenment is known as the Age ofVoltaire.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by PeterWashington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino'smasterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into anexhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the bookbecomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogybetween the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover'sdesire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT ATRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reachthe end of the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, byItalo Calvino, of course--are constantly and comically frustrated.In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the haplessreaders tangle with an international conspiracy, a roguetranslator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house,and several oppressive governments. The result is a literarylabyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another--an ArabianNights of the postmodern age.

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed "The Brothers Karamazov," theliterary effort for which he had been preparing all his life.Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide andof the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, thesensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; andtwisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid,nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into asordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a grippingcourtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes forthe truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. Aterrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental workremains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist ofall time.

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenonof Richard M. Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man whooutdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer inthe sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killingunarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politicianwith an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts,declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting inthe basic indifference of the voting public.

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voiceof a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emergethe passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutalself-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn andiconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of thegreatest antiheroes in all literature. "Notes From Underground,"published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: itannounces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on amonumental scale in "Crime And Punishment," "The Idiot," and "TheBrothers Karamazov." And it remains to this day one of the mostsearingly honest and universal testaments to human despair everpenned. "The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of ourcentury...confirm the status of "Notes from Underground" as one ofthe most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of Europeanfiction."-from the Introduction by Donald Fanger

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzyof prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small NewEngland town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forcedto retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. Thecharge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would haveastonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has asecret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, hisfour children, his colleagues, and his friends, including thewriter Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk'ssecret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of thiseminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all hislife, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life cameunraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing privatehistory is, in the words of "The" "Wall Street Journal,""magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history ofmodern America."

""He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows whateverything feels like, how everything works. He is putting togethera body of work which in substantial intelligent creation willeventually be seen as second to none in our time."--William H.Pritchard, The Hudson Review, reviewing Museums and Women (1972)" Aharvest and not a winnowing, "The Early Stories" preserves almostall of the short fiction John Updike published between 1954 and1975. The stories are arranged in eight sections, of which thefirst, "Olinger Stories," already appeared as a paperback in 1964;in its introduction, Updike described Olinger, Pennsylvania, as "asquare mile of middle-class homes physically distinguished by abend in the central avenue that compels some side streets todeviate from the grid pattern." These eleven tales, whose heroesage from ten to over thirty but remain at heart Olinger boys, arefollowed by groupings titled "Out in the World," "Married Life,"and "Family Life," tracing a common American trajectory. Familyl

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by CatherinePeters A panoramic satire of English society during the NapoleonicWars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece. Atits center is one of the most unforgettable characters innineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, acharmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leavebehind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentlefriend Amelia, by contrast, only cares for Captain George Osborne,despite his selfishness and her family's disapproval. As both womenmove within the flamboyant milieu of Regency England, the politicalturmoil of the era is matched by the scheming Becky's sensationalrise--and its unforeseen aftermath. Based in part upon Thackeray'sown love for the wife of a friend, Vanity Fair portrays thehypocrisy and corruption of high society and the dangers ofunrestrained ambition with epic brilliance and scathing wit.

Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, LaEsmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, thehunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled themwith his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm andran with her into the church. A moment later he appeared at the topof the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed hertriumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roaredsavagely to the sky: "Sanctuary Sanctuary Sanctuary " Set amid theriot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo'smasterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennialfavorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of themost thrilling stories of all time.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman'sLibrary--the most extensive and distinguished collectible libraryof the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in asmall Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and readingpleasure. "Christmas Stories" is a treasury of short fiction bygreat writers of the past two centuries--from Dickens and Tolstoyto John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmashas inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fancifulflights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression isrepresented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolicin the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghostdisrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's "Green Holly." Theplight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's "Vanka" and WillaCather's "The Burglar's Christmas" but takes a boisterously comicturn in Damon Runyon's "Dancing Dan's Christmas" and in JohnCheever's "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor." From VladimirN

Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most peopleeven knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the Englishlanguage's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all itsdimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration anddisgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in thesame breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of JonathanBate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplishedShakespearean scholars, The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all ofShakespeare's sonnets, the long narrative poems "Venus and Adonis"and "The Rape of Lucrece," and several other shorter works.Incorporating definitive texts and authoritative notes from WilliamShakespeare: Complete Works, this unique volume also includes anexpanded Introduction by Jonathan Bate that places the poems inliterary and historical context and illuminates their relationshipto Shakespeare's dramatic writing. Also featured are key factsabout the individual selections; an index of the first lines of thesonnets; a chron

Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caughtbetween opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictmentof Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and anunforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, BillSykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second novelis a compelling social satire that has remained popular since itwas first serialized in 1837-39. The text for this Modern LibraryPaperback Classic is taken from the 1846 New Edition, revised andcorrected by the author. It includes new explanatory notes and anappendix, "A Brief History of the English Poor Laws."

The epic tale of Don Quixote and his faithful squire, SanchoPanza, and their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenthcentury Spain, form the basis of one of the great treasures ofWestern literature - a book that is both a hilarious satire of thechivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobilitycan be a form of madness. This brand-new, thoroughly moderntranslation, and the extensive introduction and footnotes, makeCervantes' masterpiece more delightful and accessible to Englishreaders than ever before.