《英国文学作品选读》是作者从英国文学作品中选编的一套适合我国具有较高英语水平的人阅读使用的书籍。尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。选文具有代表性，是广大英语爱好者及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者进修的理想读物。 《英国文学作品选读》（一）精选了英国文学作品多篇，包括乔叟、莎士比亚、培根、狄更斯、哈代、劳伦斯等英国文学大家的杰作以及弥尔顿、华兹华斯、拜伦、雪莱、艾略特等著名诗人的诗歌精选。 《英国文学作品选读》（二）精选了华兹华斯、柯尔律治、拜伦、雪莱、济慈等诗人还有乔治 艾略特、哈代王尔德等小说家的作品。本套选读材料可作为高等院校英语专业教材，也可供师范院校、教育学院、广播电视大学及社会上英语自学者学习使用。《英国文学作品选读》（三）精选了包括高尔斯华绥、萧
莲花高台上的佛与法，俗世凡尘间的情与爱。1650年前的丝绸之路上，龟兹国外的古道正驼铃悠悠。初次遇到穿越而来的现代女子艾晴时，鸠摩罗什十三岁。再次见到她时，他二十四岁，已是名扬西域的僧人。对他来说，她是爱而不得的女子；对她来说，他是注定许身佛门的千古高僧。即使早已情根深种，终究羁绊于那一颗坚定的向佛之心。他们之间横亘着的不仅仅是漫长的千年岁月，更有十六国时代满目苍痍的乱世纷争。他与她相识四十年，用三十六年的寂寞等待，换来与她四年相依。她与他相识十年，以穿越的强大辐射为代价，在他遭逢劫难时不弃不离。历经劫难之后，他不再是万人膜拜的皇家上宾，而是冲破戒律与妻子紧紧相依的普通男子，是走过人间地狱仍心怀大爱的慈悲和尚。驼铃悠悠，唱响西域，那段遗落在丝绸之路上的纯真爱情，如何做到不负如来不
“阿加莎？克里斯蒂经典侦探作品集”丛书，是英国柯林斯出版公司精选的阿加莎？克里斯蒂的经典作品，由英国语言和文学专家专门为世界各地母语非英语的读者改编设计，每篇小说经过适当删减，其中的词汇和语法也做了简化，是适合中等以上英语水平读者学习的英语读物。书中印有二维码可在线听音频，由英国本土人士录制，声情并茂地再现精彩的故事内容。另，本丛书可配点读笔(需单独购买)。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》为阿加莎？克里斯蒂的 部侦探小说，奠定了大侦探波洛的人物基础。故事情节：斯泰尔斯庄园的女主人英格尔索普太太掌管着财政大权。某日凌晨，她在自己的房间里毒发身亡，而房间的三个门都是从里面锁上的。侦探波洛在调查此案的过程中发现了一系列疑点，但 的疑犯——英格尔索普太太的丈夫却有不在场的证据。 让波洛感到头痛的是，
本书根据史实和传说编写的历代宫廷秘史，从封建时期统一的秦王朝开始，到清代为止，包括《秦汉宫廷秘史》、《魏晋南北朝宫廷秘史》、《隋唐宫廷秘史》、《宋元宫廷秘史》、《明清宫廷秘史》。书中，既有帝王的艰辛与勤政，也有他们的残暴与淫逸；既有帝后、君臣之间的真诚与忠贞，又有他们为权欲而争斗的欺诈与谋变；系统地反映了中国历代宫廷内部错综复杂的斗争。
《转型时代与幽暗意识》作为张灏教授的自选集，收入了他研究近现代中国思想史的一些代表性文章。全书分为“轴心时代”“幽暗意识”、“近代思想史上的转型时代”、“五四与大革命”、“传统与现代化”五个部分。该书讨论了中国思想史上的一些重要问题，如转型时代、幽暗意识与民主传统、儒家的经世思想和道德理想主义、关于五四思想的两歧性、二十世纪中国革命的起源等等，这些问题无一不与中国知识分子近二十年的思想焦点密切相关。
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas. This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov’s major plays—Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard—and three early one-act farces that inform his later work—The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick’s masterful translations closely preserve Chekhov’s singular style—his abundant jokes and literary allusions and his careful use of phrase repetition to bind the plays together. "Letters" is the largest collection of Chekhov’s commentary on his plays ever to appear in an English-language edition. "Criticism" includes eleven essays by leading European and Russian Chekhov scholars, most appearing in English for the first time, including those by Boris Zingerman, Maria Deppermann, and Lev Shestor. This volume also provides discussion of Chekhov’s plays by some of the twentieth century’s great directors,
The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important works of medieval vernacular literature。It was composed in the thirteenth century and exerted a profound influence on literature in France，England，the Netherlands and Italy for the next 200 years。In this book，Sylvia Huot investigates how medieval readers understood the text，assessing the evidence to be found in well over 200 surviving manu*s：annotations，glosses，illuminations，marginal doodles，rewritings，expansions and abridgements。This allows a picture to emerge of the interests and concerns of its readers，including such important fourteenth-century figures as the monastic author Guillaume de Deguilleville and the court poet Guillaume de Machaut。The book contains analyses of individual versions of the poem。It offers an interesting perspective on the interpretative difficulties of this learned and complex poem。
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP "Send Us a Boy -- We'll Send You a Cowboy!" is the slogan of the Box Canyon Boys Camp. But for the nail biters, thumb suckers, and teeth grinders -- the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy travelling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes -- it's just another place to face rejection. Until Cotton. Cotton pulls them together. In a hot-wired pickup, he leads "the Bedwetters" on a fantastic mission to save a heard of buffalo -- and in the process, to save themselves. But as the raw red Arizona sun rises, they will discover the cost of their one grand moment of glory… 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 interpretat
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written,Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against thebackdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805 in the crowded andgossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party and follows thefortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families asNapoleon's armies sweep through Europe, culminating in the Frenchinvasion of Russia in 1812 and Napoleon's defeat. Tolstoy's vastnovel takes in both the epic sweep of national events and theprivate experience of individuals, from the keen young soldier toNapoleon himself, and at the heart of it all the complicatedtriangle of affection that binds his central characters. --Thistext refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thistitle.
Dooling, who was an NBA finalist for his White Man's Grave a few years back, never writes the same kind of book twice, and this time he's produced a sort of techno-noir thriller set within the confines of the insurance business. The reader learns a great deal about insurance scams and the cynicism pervading the industry, and the Omaha setting is piquant for its contrast with the high-living, trendy insurance investigators who are the book's stars, but the book's virtues end there. The plot is extraordinarily convoluted, with villains both expected and unexpected popping up every few pages, and neither Carver Hartnett, the narrator; his alcoholic, pill-popping buddy, Leonard Stillmach, whose mysterious death precipitates the action; nor beautiful but apparently unattainable Miranda Pryor are either appealing or believable. Carver, for instance, plays teenage blow-'em-away computer games with Leonard, Miranda downs gallons of vintage wine while fending off Carver's advances and all are given to sudden pseudo-pr
Amazon.com Review "'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is muchmore than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in thatsense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warmdarkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason thatthe faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton,known for her keen observations of an emotionally stiflingupper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for manyyears she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing aghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is thissharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through askeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghoststory." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales,including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "PomegranateSeed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographicalpost*. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title. Product De*ion
