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。
保罗是一名大学生,也是旅店的守夜人。他狂热地爱上了常住313号客房的年轻女孩儿阿梅利亚。关于她的一切都是个谜,流言蜚语萦绕着她,可保罗并不在意。他们恋爱了。然而甜蜜的恋情突然中断 阿梅利亚谜一般消失了。据说她去了萨拉热窝寻找母亲,追溯身为作家的母亲和那场战争的关系 十年后,他们再次相遇时,保罗在事业上已小有成就,情感上依然为深爱着的阿梅利亚留白。对家庭生活充满向往的保罗努力经营着一切,而阿梅利亚诞下一个女儿后又一次不辞而别。单身父亲保罗抚养女儿露易丝成年,露易丝也踏上了寻找母亲的旅程,一如阿梅利亚曾经所做的那样。 战争,给人们带来心灵的创伤,也终将改变人们的命运。在情感缺失的家庭中长大的女孩儿,不知道如何去爱别人和表达爱。在这部炽热的小说中,作者带我们回忆了人类丢失的与依旧
In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history’s most repellent, and the theater’s most mesmerizing, figures. This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play with interpolations from the First Folio (1623). The play is accompanied by a preface, explanatory annotations, A Note on the Text, a list of Textual Variants, and eighteen illustrations of seminal scenes from major dramatic productions and film versions of the play. “Contexts” provides readers with the sources and analogues that informed Shakespeare’s composition of Richard III. These include excerpts from Robert Fabyan’s New Chronicles of England and France, Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III, Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The True Tragedy of Richard III. A selection from Colley Cibber’s eighteenth-century adaptation records the compr
Shakespeare shines a fierce spotlight on the jealous heart andon our attitudes toward the outsider. A story of its time and forour time, full of terror and beauty, Othello is urgent,gripping, radical, and beautiful. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions from the Royal ShakespeareCompany set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for thetwenty-first century.
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As the citizens of Venice compete for advantageousmarriages, wealth, and status, a moneylender is intent on deadlyrevenge. Mistrust and resentment thrive in Shakespeare’s darkcomedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions from the Royal ShakespeareCompany set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for thetwenty-first century.
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language andthe inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early workof H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest fromreviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted toknow more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in hisfirst book, "The Time Machine, "not its potential for misuse andterror. In "The Island of Dr. Moreau" a shipwrecked gentleman namedEdward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by thenotorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures,and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale wasintended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and thetension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiarwith genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of theethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings orbringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add arichness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island o
在线阅读本书 The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga ofHumphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now anunwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The menwho sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captainhimself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of a man. Jack London was a worshipper of the strong and virtuous hero, and afirm believer in the inevitable triumph of good. The masterstoryteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than inthis classic American tale of peril and adventure, good andevil.
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettablecharacters, and language that brilliantly captures the livelyrhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to MarkTwain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain'sinimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the bitingsatire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here:ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras County," to the bitter vision of humankind in "The ManThat Corrupted Hadleyburg," to the delightful hilarity of "Is HeLiving or Is He Dead?" Surging with Twain's ebullient wit andpenetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volumeis a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L.Mencken-"the father of our national literature."
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution,Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotionsconflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual,rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with thehandsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreetaffair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society)would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Annaand Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman KonstantineLevin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted bythoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritualcrisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotionalimprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares totransgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism andcreated a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul. A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution,Anna Kareni
When Tom Seymour,a child psychologist,plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning,he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget.For Tom already knows Danny Miller.When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman.Now out of prison with a new identity,Danny has some questions-questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly,Tom is drawn back into Danny's world-a place where the border between good and evil,innocence and gulit is blurred and confused.But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme,Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own-and in crossing it,can he ever go back? 作者简介:Pat Barker was born in Thrnaby-on-Tees in1943.She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics.Her books include Union Street,Winner of the 1983 Fawcett Prize,which has been filmded as Stanley and Iris;Blow Your House Doun;Liza's England,formerly The Century's Daughter,and the following Pubis
With his family’s claim to the throne uncertain, Henry seeksto secure his position by turning the country’s attention abroad.But when his outnumbered army is trapped at Agincourt, disasterseems inevitable. Shakespeare probes notions of leadership andpower in this iconic depiction of England’s charismatic warriorking. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible edition
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.
On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resignedhimself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to awoman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lostpossibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver,arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort toescape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, andenduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of twotragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscienceand necessity. Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone andthree short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and“Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of theextraordinary range and power of one of America’s finestwriters.
Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by HelenPaterson for the first edition of the novel, this specialCollector's Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also featureshandwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare andintimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here,too, readers are granted a fascinating and touching glimpse of howtwo great imaginative writers interact with one another: Thisedition reproduces the handwritten pages from Virginia Woolf'sdiary in which she recounts her now-famous visit with the very agedThomas Hardy at his home, Max Gate, in 1926.