Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriateAmericans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in lovewith Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, butwith an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When thecouple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the headyatmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by newpassions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he willnever possess the woman he loves.
'At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I moved back in I was still, for the most part, an idiot. But this time, I was smart enough to write down all the things he said to me'. Meet Justin Halpern and his dad. Almost one million people follow Mr Halpern's philosophical musings every day on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his sayings. What emerges is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father and son relationship from a major new comic voice. As Justin says at one point, his dad is 'like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair'; and this is the sort of shit he says...'You know, sometimes it's nice having you around. But now ain't one of those times. Now gimme the remote, we're not watching this bullshit'. 'Happy Birthd
Variety called John Pierson the"guru of independent film."Why?Perhaps because he wrote Spike Leea$10,000 check to finish She's Cotta Have it,and sold Michael moore's documentary Roger&Me to Warnet Brothers for$3 mill.Moore's it's because he helped make"slacker"a houshold word with richard Linklater's 1991 film,has seen over 1.000 debut features,and unlike most inde pendent film companies,managed not to lose his shirt while backing the movies he supported.In short he's been at the epicenter of the tumultuous last decade that changed independent film forever and launched a new generation of hilarious,ambitlous,talented,and sometimes whackek filmmakers. In Spike,Mike,Slackerk&Dyker John Pierson uses his own experience to tell the unvarnished truth about the importance of timing and marketing the personal and professional politics of filmfinancing;creating a sensation on the film festival circuit;the dark side of overnitht success;and the anatomy of deals that get films to a theater somewhere near you. Sp
From Hector St 10hn de Crevecoeurs defining statement ofAmericanism to Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKaysobservationson race，here are both rousing and heartbreaking impressions ofthose who departed from their homelands in the hopes of making anew 1ire A thirteen-year-old boy's arrival from Scotland isrelated-a boy who would later become millionaire industrialistAndrew Carnegie other American SUCCESS Stories tell of immigrants'efforts to reconcile old traditions with their new land Includedare the experiences Of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Bok.1nventorMichael Pupin，renowned social reformer Jacob Riis，one of the firstAmerican female physicians，Marie Zakrzewska，as well as those whocame from India，China，Korea，Syria，and Mexico to make their mark onthe “New World”.
Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that hisachievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition theydeserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himselfsanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated versionof Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents ofthe two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he diedin 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development ofLawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality anddistinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprintedhere are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality toconfirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers ofthe twentieth century.
Book De*ion The classic survey ofEnglish literature in a vibrant new edition, with StephenGreenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The NortonAnthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the fieldfrom the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more thanninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens itsrepresentation of essential works in all genres, ranging fromSeamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf andShakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenthcentury—Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—totwentieth-century classics of a truly global Englishliterature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own,poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and SalmanRushdie, to name but a few. Color plates—over seventy-five inall—bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Conciseglosses and annotations, period introductions, biographicalheadnotes, timelines, and selected bibliogr
The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to theastonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winningauthor. This impressive collection includes: the full text ofFiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three ofhis greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and HaveNot and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete shortstories; and the breathtaking Epilogue to Death in theAfternoon.
Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man -- and saves his life, with a kiss A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Emily starts running. And running. Her curiosity leads her right into the hands of a murderer...and soon her legs are her only hope for survival. Enter a world of masterful suspense, dark comedy and thrilling twists which will keep you riveted from the first page. Enter the world of No. 1 bestseller Stephen King.
In Derry,Maine,four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing.Something that cahanged them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later,the boys are men who have gone their separate ways.though they still get together once a year,to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different.This time a man comes stumbling into their camp,lost,disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long,these old friends will be plundge into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creatur form another world.Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcaticher. 作者简介： Step King was born in Portland,Main e,in 1947.He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English,while his wife,tabitha,got her degree. It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptaion that set him on tis way to his present position sa perhaps the bests
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time.He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As Yon Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained - in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
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.
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the "space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss' fam-ily and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history.
This new translation is for the contemporary reader. Specifically commissioned for stage production, it rings easily on the modern ear and yet retains fidelity to Sophocles' original, avoiding the archaisms of other translations. The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. Among the background materials are selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripides' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, permitting discussion from many points of view: psy-chological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary. Under the topic "Religion and Psychology" are included writings on the Oedipus myth by Martin P. Nilsson, Meyer Fortes, Gordon M. Kirk-wood, Thalia Phillies Feldman, and Sigmund Freud. The authors of the selections in literary criticism are Aristotle, C. M. Bowra, R. C.Jebb, S. M. Adams, A. J. A. Waldock, Albin Lesky, Werner Jaeger, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Jones, D. W. Lucas, Bernard M. W. Kno
No athlete has changed his sport the way Tiger Woods has transformed the world of golf. The Tiger phenomenon has created a new legion of golfers, seduced by Woods's almost effortless mastery of this most difficult game. In How I Play Golf Woods reveals the many facets of his game and offers a plethora of tips and advice aimed at all levels of play. Unlike most golf guides, and perhaps somewhat surprising from a player best known for his long game, How I Play Golf begins with the short game--putting, chipping, and pitching--before moving onto swing mechanics and hitting off the tee. Produced in conjunction with the editors of Golf Digest, the book is lavishly photographed and illustrated and offers a gold mine of useful ideas and mental images Tiger has collected over the years. Throughout, Tiger recounts memorable shots from his relatively brief career; for example, his only "perfect" shot （a 3-wood on No. 14 at St. Andrews）and his first putt at the 1995 Masters （a 20-footer for birdie on No. 1 that mis
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This is the magical story of Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world to seek the most wonderful treasures known to man. From his home in Spain, he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and, from there, into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. Coelho's fascinating storytelling, with its mixture of spiritualily, magical realism and folklore, makes The Alchemist a story that will delight any reader and inspire us all to follow our dreams.
GRAHAM SWIFT was born in l 949 and iS theauthor of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of shortstories；his most recent work iS Making an Elephant,a book ofessays，portraits，poetry and reflections on his life in writing．WithWaterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize(1 983)，and with LastOrders the Booker Prize(1 996)．Both novels have since been madeinto films．Graham Swirl’S work has appeared in over thirtylanguages．
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate -- became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the
Book De*ion A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is theclassic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to thetwenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representationof essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney'saward-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, andMore's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of thenineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennysonand Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a trulyglobal English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's ARoom of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel'sTranslations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—andthematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bringto life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses andannotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes,timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand andenjoy the rich diversity of E
Late one night, exploring her Father's libra,, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominouslV to MV dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discoverrT plunges her into a world she never dreamed of a labyrinth Where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history.
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible— The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To endthis brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier'sdaughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure,love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled withprinces and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits,tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band offorty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. Thesequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
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