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。

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives areexplored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike inthis wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all asRabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- findshis dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice.How he resolves -- or further complicates -- his problems, makesfor a novel of the first order

EXCITEMENT AND SUSPENSE FROM THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE Archaeologist Leo Mallory is on a dig. But this is no ordinary assignment. He’s deep in the heart of the Mexican jungle uncovering another centuries-old Mayan city. Like a surgeon performing a most-intricate operation, Leo and his team skilfully remove each crumb of earth with the utmost precision. THE JAGUAR MASK In France, Declan Carberry is busy trying to solve a string of ritual serial murders. Horrific in the extreme, the questions are who and why? Declan needs to move fast, for time is running out. Delving into the history of the Conquistadors and the Maya of South America, this vertiginous tale of snaring and netting, old rituals and modern codes, blood-letting and immortality is Easterman at his dizzying best. “A master of spooky suspense and of the chapter cliffhanger”THE SCOTSMAN 'The Jaguar Mask' will satisfy anyone who appreciates an old-fashioned well plotted adventure thriller which has been given a hard moder

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn , the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding thecreation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing acautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love withhis magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the bookwho doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. AnnaKarenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist intheir own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-centuryRussian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whosename it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by awriter. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, awicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study ofa man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. Thesetting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renownedpianist, has come to give the most important performance of hislife. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic andinfuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital cluesto his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that isitself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant withhumanity and wit. "A work of great interest and originality....Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all hisown...frankly fantastic and] fiercer and funnier thanbefore."--"The New Yorker"

After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane,and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Islandseaside t own of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site oftheir enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. DiabolicalDarryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license andliberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockeymoms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their ownabsent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but fleshweaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspellof conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike isat his very best–a legendary master of literary magic up to his olddelightful tricks.

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.

One of the English language’s most skilledand beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-freeusage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is adazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularitiesthat often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. Thisis a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold twohalves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 differentmeanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participialadjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but ifyou are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at oddswith their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in theearly 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of aneasy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps andsnares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher thathe should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted,and for

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.

aNo other popular writer of his time did any better writingthan you will find in The Call of the Wild.a--H. L. Mencken One ofthe greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenalpopularity in his own time and remains widely read throughout theworld. His work is characterized by thrilling action, an intuitivefeeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that oftenmanifests itself through violence. "The Call of the Wild," perhapsthe best novel ever written about animals, traces a dogas suddenentry into the wild and his education in survival among the wolves.Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative textsdrawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introducedby todayas most distinguished scholars and writers. Each bookfeatures a detailed chronology of the authoras life and career, andessay on the choice of the text, and notes. The contents of thisPaperback Classic are drawn from "Jack London: Novels and Stories,"volume number 6 in The Library of America series. I

"The Age of Innocence," one of Edith Wharton's mostrenowned novels and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize,exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibilitythrough the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York.The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyerengaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May'sdisgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage toa Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer,who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionlessrelationship with May and the social conventions that forbid arelationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn betweenpossibility and duty. Wharton's profound understanding of hercharacters' lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen cometo life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at theways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules ofhigh society, "The Age of Innocence" is one of Wharton's finest,most illuminative w

Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon whichWestern culture can be founded ... it is hardly too much to saythat these tales rank next to the Bible in importance. - W.H.Auden A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legendscollected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.

In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a characteras compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable HenryBech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in aworld of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, heviews life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make youlaugh with delight and wince in recognition.

From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countrysideblacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of navalhero Admiral Nelson, England’s most famous native son. She servedas model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe’s most renownedartists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court ofNaples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, pennilessand alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps thespectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beautyEmma, Lady Hamilton—as she came to be called—a woman of abundantaffection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity wasrivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal.Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics,passions, and enchantments of her day.

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and itsunflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a stormof controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly inresponse, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writingaltogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though wehave come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuingcentury, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power toshock us and disturb our dreams.

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commandedattention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the powerof her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, andunmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money andposition she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of thetragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid,disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon womenof Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society,Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by newcodes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling thestory of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts theage-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways thattransform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting moderndocument of cultural anthropology. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.

Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “talefor young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys—aprince and a pauper—who trade clothes and step into each other’slives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power,Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiencesthe cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. AsChristopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, The Princeand the Pauper is “funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet alsochock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues againstsociety’s ills.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Mark TwainProject edition, which is the approved text of the Center forScholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

(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.