Book De*ion Subtitled "A RomanticNovel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race", "The Torrents ofSpring" - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodiesthe themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers of hisgeneration. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, butthe snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of forChicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up withYogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire onconventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yetstrangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, "The Torrents ofSpring" throws light on Hemingway's later work - and is a delightto read. Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.8 width:(cm)11.1
Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon'EVENING STANDARD 'Delightfully observant nostalgia.., will strike a chord with both sexes' SHE 'A warm, funny romantic comedy' DAILY MAIL 'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' THE TIMES "Thirty means only going to the pub if there,s somewhere to sit down, Thiity means owning at least one classical CD, even if it's New That's What I Call Classical Vol 6. Thirty means calling off the search for the perfect partner because now, after al! thee years in the wilderness, you've finally found what you've been looking for." Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him.and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Within hours,his mum and dad
"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger'smost famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. Thetitle story recounts a Sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in"The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers' fan-letters. 'A Perfect Day forBananafish' is the first of the author's stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who wouldappear in much of Salinger's later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldestsibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida. --This text refers to analternate Paperback edition.
在线阅读本书 Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright orprisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet anunknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative yearsincludes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grievinglyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of hisromance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution inhis renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexualdesires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of hisday, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His finalmasterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story ofhis own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. Thisedition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievementas a poet.
First published in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise Highthe Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are twonovellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be aportrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leavefrom the army during World War II to attend the wedding of theeldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentoussuspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow. In thesecond, Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds intoa deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad characterwhich displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguishthe best of Salinger's writing.
By the ancient Greeks the authorship of their two great epic poems,the Alliad and the Odyssey,was ascribed to Homer.Whatever may be the truth as to the method of composition of the two epics,it may safely be sumised that they were preceded by a mass of legend that had is time gained a certain amount of cohesion and become in a sense national.The Alliad and the Odyssey stand at the head of the literature of Greece and of the epic poetry of the world;and their influence in the country of their origin and throughout the European peoples has been commensurate with their artistic greatness.Historically,they give the earliest picture of Aryan civlilzation,describing a period of culture of which we should otherwise know almost nothing.Artistically,in spite of their early date,they are the product of a mature art.expressing with supreme nobility and grace,permanent and varied yet simple types of human nature,in a language unsurpassed for its combination of directness,simplicity,and beauty.
Plutarch's Lives is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time.In what is by far his most famous and influential work.Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory,Richly anecdotal and full of detail,it contains profiles and comparsons of Romulus and Theseus,Numa and Lycurgus,Fabius and Pericles,and exaggerate.All classes of people have taken delight in them,from kings to shepherds,and it is fair to say that the influnce has always been wholesome,Not only do some of the greatest perods of the world's history,but also offer,in a concrete and inspiring form,the ideals of human character in the antique world incarnated in a series of great heroic figures.Of few books can it be said with shch assurance that they will remain a pemanent possession of the race.
Virgil's AEneid is a eternalas Rome itself,a sweeping epci of arms and heroism-the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty,human feeling and the forche of fate-that has influenced writers for over 2000 years.It is filled with drama,passion,and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express.The AEeid is a book for all the time and all people.The modern apprctiation of the Elliad and the Odyssey tends to carry with it a deperciation of the AEneid,the spirit of which appeals less forcibly to the taste of our time.But it is foolish to lose sight of the splendor of a poet who,for nearly two thousand years,has been one of the most powerful factors in European cultrure.The subtler elements of the exquisite style of Virgil no translator can ever hope to reproduce;but Dryden was a master of English versification,and the content of Virgil's epic is here rendered in vigorous and nervous couplets.Dryden's Dedication is an excellent example of his prose atyle,and gives an interesting view of
The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. The Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man st
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
There was a time when the world was sweeter…when the women in Beaufort,North Carolina,wore drisses,and the men donnde hats,Every April,when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs,Landon Carter remembers1958,his last year at Beauroft High.Landon had datde a girl or two,and even once sworn that he'd been in love.Certainly the last person th thought he'd fall for was Jamie,the shy,almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister…Jamie,who was destined to show him the depths of the humam heart-and the joy and pain of living. From the internationally bestselling author Nichols Sparks comes his most moving story yet…
Ralph Waldo Emerson set out on his first visit to Europe in 1831,passing throuth Italy,Switzerland and France to Britain,and visiting Landor,Coleridge,Wordsworth,and ,most important of all ,Carlyle,with whom he laid the foundation of a life-long friendship.On his return to America,he took up lecturing,and continued for nearly forty years to use this form of expression for his ideas on religion,politics,literature,and philosophy.He published a succession of volumes of essays,addresses and poems.The spirit and ideas which constitute the essence of his teachings are fully expressed in the essays contained in this volume.The writings here produced belong to the earlier half of his literary activity.However,it may fairly be said that by 1860 Emerson had put forth all his important fundamental ideas,and the later utterances consist largely of restatements and applications of these.Thanks to the singular bearty and condensation of his style,it is thus possible to obtain from this one volume a view of the philosophy
In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-knownstatement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is inthe pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over ayear, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem forDoomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader.Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That iswhy all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning was based on hisacute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on theWestern Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste ofthe First World War. This volume contains all Owen's best-knownpoems, only four of which were published in his lifetime. He waskilled a week before the Armistice in November 1918.
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. Anundiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of hertotal of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had animmense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe forlife, love, nature, time and eternity. Originally branded aneccentric, Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet ofgreat depth.
Frankin’s aubobiography was written initially to guide his son。It is a lively。spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life。Stylistically his work，it has become a classic in world lifterauture，one to inspiire and delight readers everywhere。The “journal“or spiritual autobiography of John Woolman was the characteristic literary expression of Quakerism in its first two centuries。Its distinguishing marks were not dogmas but practical testimonies for equality，simplicity and peace。Charles Lamb once made such a comment，“The only American book I ever read Twice was the Journal of John Woolman。”The Fruits of Solitude is a mine of pithy comments upon human life，which combines the acute common sense of Franklin with the spiritual the spiritual elevation of Woolman。The maxims and comments on life are as true today as when Penn wrote them。
在线阅读本书 Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White ishis first excursion into the genre. When the hero, WalterHartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters asolitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feelsimpelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plotis peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevishinvalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and theenigmatic woman herself.
Book De*ion `I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name isDAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal,certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. This new edition features an enlarged text, revised notes, and anew introduction. It uses the accurate Clarendon text, and alsoincludes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight of theoriginal illustrations by `Phiz'. Reviews Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man'srise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. DavidCopperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raisedfirst by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sendshim to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by akindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomesa writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerableunhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunitedwith his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life i
In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed....In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible....In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. Only the Queen of Crime could have conceived such delicious treats for mystery lovers. Only the inimitable Herule Poirot and Miss Marple could solve them with such chilling perfection.
Among English men of letters,there is none whose life and work stand in more intimeate relation with the history of his times than those of Milton.In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet.from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel,and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to an epic poet obsessed with the intractability of sin.A master of almost every verse style,Milton left a body of work unrivaled in literary history.Miltons'works will convince readers that to this calss Milton could never have belonged,Milton was passionately devoted to beauty,Side by side with his love of liberty and his enthusiasm for moral purity qualities in which even then the Puritans had no monopoly,The reason why his work survives until today is not because part of it expresses the Puritan theology,but because of its artistic qualities,and above all because it is at once more faultless and more nobly sustained in music than that of any other English poet.
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular forover a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity ofhappiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found hiswork elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of itmannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smoothtexts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive manwrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fallpassionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry awealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is aromantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away theyears in 622 affairs——yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Herhusband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends thefuneral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he firstdeclared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of thegreatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-knownpoets. Each collection has a specially commissionedintroduction. This work contains the poetic works of John Milton. It includes"Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained", "L'Allegro", "Il Penseroso","Comus" and various sonnets and miscellaneous poems.
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.
