It was an emotion no kid should have to feel……Yet he wondered if it weren't the legacy of childhood,At some Point in the Game ,you would come to is ……Desolation was inevitable,it ran beneath everything,the always-available unbearably adult emotion that clung to one's still-breathing body lide drowned clothes. The vagaries of memory,the legacy of war,The last thing in the world Richard Jury wants to think about is the war that killed his mother,his father,his childhood,and made orphans of so many of the gaunt and sad-eyed children pictured in this handful of snapshots his old friend Mickey Haggerty shoves towards him on the desk.
The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider.Men,Dwarves,Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark.Meanwhile,Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. THE DEVASTATING CONCLUSION OF J.R.R.TOLKIEN'S CLASSIC TALE,BEGUN IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING AND THE TWO TOWERS. 'A triumphant close...a grand piece of work,grand in both conception and execution'Daily Telegraph 'Tolkien was a storythller of genius'Literary Review
For this Norton Critical Edition, the texts of both Walden and "Resistance to Civil Government" are again based on their first editions. The editor has incorporated all of Thoreau's additions to Walden, and these and all other emendations are now summarized in a table of textual variants. Throughout, annotations have been revised and expanded. As a special feature, the Second Edition includes a much-expanded selection from Thoreau's Journal, most of it reprinted by special arrangement with Princeton University Press from the definitive edb tion of his writings. Drawing upon newly available material written during Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond and accompanied by the editor's essay on "The Journal and Walden," these selections represent and illuminate the entire 1845 54 period, during which Thoreau wrote, rewrote, and extensively revised Walden. The selection of contemporary reviews has been expanded to include two notices of "Resistance to Civil Government" and three reviews of Walden that hav
‘May well be the funniest series of novels curr ently in progress……Maupin’s ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterization ,and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moon’s THE TIMES The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again ,as an ordinary hous -hus band and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye .Unexpeted help arrves in the form of a British monarch,a grieving gay neighbour ,and an international ring of mail-order brdes .Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of Manners for our tines. ‘I Love Maupin’s books for very much the sane qualities that make me love hte novels of Dicken's CHuitopher isherwood. 作者简介： Armistead,Maupin was born in Washington,D.C.in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh,North Carlina .A graduate of the University of North Carolina ,he Served as a nval officer in Vienam before moving to
The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations. "Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller’s recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
