Herzog is alone, now that Madeleine has left him for his bestfriend. Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats,he is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People rumouredthat his mind had collapsed. But was it true? Locked for days inthe custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls franticletters which he never mails. His mind buzzes with conundrums andpolemics, writing in a spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is hecrazy, or is he a genius?..
Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
"Criticism" features ten essays on The Book of theCourtier , which represent the best interpretations from theUnited States, Italy, and England including the backgrounds-richessays by Amedeo Quondam and James Hankins. A SelectedBibliography, a Chronology, and an Index are included.
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings likethemselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens,fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in theircruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom forthe more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, authorof Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Journey Back to Regency England—Land of the Undead! Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of theDreadfuls a thrilling prequel set four years before thehorrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies . As ourstory opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in theEnglish country side. They idle away the days reading, gardening,and daydreaming about future husbands until a funeral at the localparish goes strangely and horribly awry. Suddenly corpses are springing from the soft earth and only onefamily can stop them. As the bodies pile up, we watch ElizabethBennet evolve from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer ofthe undead. Along the way, two men vie for her affections: MasterHawksworth is a powerful warrior who trains her to kill, whilethoughtful Dr. Keckilpenny seeks to conquer the walking dead usingscience instead of strength. Will either man win the prize ofElizabeth's heart? Or will their hearts be feasted upon by hordesof marauding zombies? Complete with romance
Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666" has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary. 'The best book of 2008 ...A masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year' - "Time". 'Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano'- "Sunday Times". 'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' - "Guardian".
Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dreamof the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chineseliterature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "TheDreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E somedecades later. It continues the story of the changing fortunes ofthe Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai,after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldlyelements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence andcorruption, his karmic journey unfolds. Like a sleepwalker throughlife, Bao-yu is finally awakened by a vision, which reveals to himthat life itself is merely a dream, 'as moonlight mirrored in thewater'.
在线阅读本书 The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944),was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHTFLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance anddiscipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND AND STARSand FLIGHT TO ARRAS, stress his humanistic philosophy.Saint-Exupéry's popular children's book THE LITTLE PRINCE is alsoread by adults for its allegorical meaning. Saint-Exupéry's planedisappeared during a mission in World War II.
Since the original prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the "Penguin Proust" that makes Proust accessible to anew generation. Each volume is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is toknow what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide. Michel had been ablindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis.His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire torebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. Butthe freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restlesstravels is won at great cost. And freedom itself, he finds, can bea burden. Gide's novel examines the inevitable conflicts that arisewhen a pleasure seeker challenges conventional society and, withoutmoralizing, it raises complex issues involving the extent ofpersonal responsibility.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer,transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writingseveral classics of aviation literature, including "Southern Mail"and "Night Flight". Based on Saint-Exupery's trail-blazing flightsfor the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, theAndes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility ofthe airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in opencock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.
In 1757 Alaung-hpaya stormed Pegu, uniting Burma under his rule. In the same year Frederick the Great of Prussia, fighting in what came to be known as the Seven Years War, defeated his French and Austrian opponents at Rossbach and Leuthen respectively. Both were important campaigns in the history of eighteenth-century warfare. Both are covered in this important and wide-ranging narrative by a leading authority in early modern warfare, which presents a full and fascinating picture of war both in Europe and elsewhere in the world at this time. In eighteenth-century Europe warfare was widespread. Armies fought with flintlocks and bayonets, and in conflicts such as the Wars of European Succession and the Seven Years War success generally lay in speed and decisiveness. The tactical innovations of European leaders such as Marlborough and Frederick the Great made them figures who are still renowned today. Yet the most successful military power in the world at the time was not European but Chinese,
As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities ofthe human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of anextraordinary range of characters. In "Making an Elephant", hisfirst ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Swift bringstogether a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry,and reflections on his life in writing, full of insights into hispassions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family, andother writers who have mattered to him over the years. KazuoIshiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrivesfor Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of aDevon river. There are private moments, too, with long-deadwriters, as well as musings on history and memory that readers ofSwift's novels will recognize and love. 'A rewarding collection,with the same humanity and flair for detail that distinguishesSwift's fiction.
For many people watching football is mere entertainment；to Some it’S more like a ritual：but to others，its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby his devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things-like growing up，Leaving home and forming relationships．both parental and romantic-have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal．
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatestnovels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, TheGolden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy whoprefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai,his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beautyDai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich,magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries,political intrigues, even murder - within the context of theBuddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion andkarma determines the shape of our lives.
The best-selling survey of American literature from its beginnings to the present day is now brought to readers in an innovative revision. Here are the classic writers of the American tradition-from Wheatley and Franklin to Poe and Dickinson to Cather, Hemingway, and Ellison. Eleven major works are included in their entirety, among them Nature, Song of Myself, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Daisy Miller, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, and Howl. Here too are contemporary and newly recovered writers and traditions-from Native American Trickster tales to the early best-selling writers Susanna Rowson and Fanny Fern to the contemporary bestsellers Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko. Helpful introductions, headnotes, bibliographies, maps, and timelines accompany the texts.
This Third Edition of Tess of the d'Urbert,illes intro-duces a new text--that of the Clarendon edition(1983), edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell.The text is fully annotated and includes, for ease of refer- ence, a separate table of contents for the novel. Also new to the Third Edition are reproductions of Hardy's map of Wessex and the manu* title page for the First Edition. "Hardy and the Novel" includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos, passages from Michael Millgate's biogra-phy of Hardy that depict the relationship between parts of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the author's own life, and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrelt's introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manu*s and early printed editions of the novel. "Criticism" features three new contemporary reviews including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Also new to the Third Edition is "A Chat with Mr. Hardy," a hitherto un-reprinted post-publicatio
This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor. The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editor’s Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novel’s publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harper’s Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editor’s Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of th
Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Nortonlectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished athis death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts oflightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude and visibility(Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays thatreveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale. With hiscustomary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virtues ofthe great literature of the past in order to shape the values ofthe future. This collection is a brilliant precis of the work of agreat writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium headdressed.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and workof one of the most individual writers of this century - a man whocreated a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloudand who elevated political writing to an art.
A Guide to Genetic Disorders and Inherited Disease and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family. Much in the news, inherited disease and genetic testing are complex and confusing issues that leave most people asking "So, what can I do with this promising information?" A powerfully helpful and authoritative guide, Your Genetic Destiny has the answers. From what tests to have taken to what the results mean and when further genetic counseling is in order; from what foods to avoid to which medications to take and what other medical options are available, world-renowned geneticist Aubrey Milunsky demonstrates how knowledge of our genetic makeup can save our lives. Covering heart disease, hypertension, cancer, diabetes, mental illness, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, longevity, and infertility, Your Genetic Destiny is the most comprehensive, compassionate, and informed guide available for all concerned about the risks of inherited disease. 作者简介 Aubrey Milunsky, M.D., D.Sc., is Profess
From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearbylighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and movingexamination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life,and the conflict between male and female principles, in what isprobably her most popular novel.
“Long live the King,”hailed Entertainment Weekl yupon the publication of Stephen King's ON WRITING.Part memoir,part master chass by one of the bestselling authors of al time,this superbvolume is a revealing and practical view of the wroter's craft,comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood throunded his emergence as a writer,from his struggling early career to his widely reported,near-fatal accident in I999-and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.Brilliantly structured,friendly and inspiring,ON WRITING will empower and entertain everyone who reads it-fans,writers,and anyone who loves a great story well told.
This is the perfect introduction for young readers to the lives and times of America’s 43 most influential leaders. Just as the new president is inaugurated, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each president’s term in office, and the major political issues of each era. Quick-reference sidebars provide brief summaries of the major events and important people who emerged during each presidential term. Famous quotes and fun facts about each president ensure that this perennial favorite continues to be an entertaining and enlightening addition to any child’s library.
