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
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is anageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living aplacid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with hisfriend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to finedining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and adedication to the collection of antiques. When these relativesbecome aware of the true value of his art collection, however,their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls awayas they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man'sinheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion toCousin Bette, the darkly humorous "Cousin Pons" is among of thelast and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urbansociety: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing considerationof human nature.
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.
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.
From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of thefinest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was firstpublished by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence andthen assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman'sLibrary edition includes, for the first time, the previouslyunpublished "Chapter 16"--the most significant unpublished piece ofwriting by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate--whichprovided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilizedfamily, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror,education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. TheNabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a lifeimmersed in politics and literature on splendid country estatesuntil their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when theauthor was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes avanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.
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.
JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable ofilluminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all ofhuman experience."--Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, BenTurnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but thewanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a UnitedStates in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China,to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if charactersappear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbull'sjournal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Ben's ruthlessness isevenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on everyscene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerieambiance." --The New York Times Book Review "A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER'S WONDER . .. Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chillybackdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eyefor detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen." --Th
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.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of thetwentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitariansystem that provoked him into writing it has since passed intooblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in apolitical nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance andpower to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. InWinston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from anall-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendenciesapparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universalpredicament of the individual.
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
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
