本书由三个文本组成。 *个文本是D（狄亚努斯）的日志，它构成了被称为 鼠的故事 的*部分。这部分以D的视角展开，记述了他与B的情乱，同时，在这场混乱的激情中，A（阿尔法主教）作为一个衔接D与B之关系的人物在场。 *部分也涉及了D与E的情乱，而这构成了第二个文本的记述核心。第二部分被称为 狄亚努斯 ，是A的笔记。这部分以A的视角展开。 这两个文本共同结构了本书的故事。被称为 俄瑞斯忒斯 的第三部分则更像是一个总的视角，或者说，一则诗性概述。它由诗歌和诗论组成。巴塔耶写道： 为了在一片明显的不可能中抓住一丝可能，我必须首先想象相反的情境。

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints, with expanded explanatory footnotes,the 1848 third edition text, the last corrected by Charlotte Bronte. The newly expanded and reorganized "Contexts" section pro-vides an extensive sampling of materials concerning Bronte's experiences as a student, governess, and teacher, experiences that influenced her portrayal of Jane Eyre at Lowood school and as the governess of Thornfield Hall. New to the Third Edition are illustrations from and commentary upon Bronta's use of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Numerous letters doc-ument Jane Eyre's publication and reception history, including Bronte's retorts to negative reviews by Elizabeth Rigby and TheChristian Remembrancer. Expanded excerpts from Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte provide a fellow novelist's comments upon Bronte as a woman author and help to explain Bronte's reactions to her critics. "Criticism" retains major feminist readings by Adrienne Rich and Sandra M

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerablewoman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading ofnineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to thisprolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates herpoetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope. Her divine poems havea freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poemsare erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. Thevaried threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn together in what isperhaps her greatest poem, the strange and ambiguous 'GoblinMarket.304'.

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Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomique delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthly pleasures of provencal life are conjured up in this portrait. Peter Mayle has contributed to a wide range of publications in England,France and America,and his work has been translated into twenty-two languages.His boks,many of them published by Penguin,include A Year in Provence,oujours Provence,Hotel Pastis,A Dog's Life,Anything Considered and Chasing Cezanne.His latest book,Encore Provence,has just been published by Hamish Hamilton.

As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district attorney, private lawyer, and judge herself, she saw firsthand how the U.S. justice system worked – and didn’t. One of the most respected legal journalists and commentators today, she now confronts a profoundly unfair legal system that produces results and profits for the few – and paralysis, frustration, and injustice for the many. Alexis de Tocqueville’s dire prediction in Democracy in America has come true: We Americans have ceded our responsibility as citizens to resolve the problems of society to "legal authorities" – and with it our democratic freedoms. The Case Against Lawyers is both an angry indictment and an eloquent plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex even the enforcers – such as the IRS – cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation-crazed society where billion-dollar judgments mostly line the pockets of p

With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly original stories that sprang directly from his imagination. From the exuberant early stories such as "The Emperor's New Clothes", through poignant masterpieces such as "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling", to the darker, more subversive later tales written for adults, the stories included here are endlessly experimental, both humorous and irreverent, sorrowful and strange.

在线阅读本书 THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosiveON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the literary map andKerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour andcontagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparksthis one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books followtwo young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth.Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takesthem climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson ofsolitude.

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.

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.

Marcel Proust(1871-1922)spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu.It is an intimate epic,an excavation of the self,and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once.Proust is the twentieth century's Dante,presenting us with a unique,unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs,frittering our lives away,with only the hope of art as a possible salvation.He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English.A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original.Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style.It remains a justly famous classic of translation.

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.

In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett publishedthis classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion andinspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returningto the women and men of small New England towns for theaccompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volumeweaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities,joys, and beauties of life. "The young student of American Literature in far distant yearsto come will take up this book and say 'a masterpiece.'"-- WillaCather

This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio text of King Lear (carefully corrected prior to its printing in 1623). The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I (including the “mock-trial” scene) as is fully explained in both “A Note on the Text” and the annotations that accompany the play. “Sources” helps readers navigate King Lear’s rich history and includes the nine essential primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed significantly in creating his play, along with two additional likely sources. “Criticism”provides thirteen major critical interpretations and three provocative adaptations and responses to King Lear. Critical interpretation is provided by Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Peter Brook, Michael Warren, Lynda E. Boose, Janet Adelman, and R. A. Foakes, among others. The adaptations and responses are by Nahum Tate, John Keats, and Edward Bond. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

In her lifetime, Marian Evans (1819-80) was celebrated under her pen name of George Eliot as England's greatest living novelist. Today, she is known primarily as the bane of school kids who, having SILAS MARNER thrust down their throats, learn to despise the written word. Dove seeks to make palatable this dreaded tome, about an idealistic orphan who discovers his Jewish heritage in the course of rescuing a Jewish singer and giving succor to the beautiful Gwendolen, who is trapped in a bad marriage. Like Beacham, Bron negotiates the author's difficult locutions with comprehension and aplomb. Unfortunately her Masterpiece Theaterish delivery loses some of Eliot's personality. However, she so masterfully and assuredly puts across the text and so insightfully presents the characters that we can forgive her the lapse into the prevailing fashion. If you're a former school kid wondering just what the heck makes this novel living literature, you may find out by picking up this audiobook.

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting,Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the natureof cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivenedthroughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life andliterature. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, arichly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkwardamateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.

"The Canterbury Tales" is a major part of England's literaryheritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to theMiller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as amirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style ofmedieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtlyromance - the tales encompass a blend of universal human themes.Ackroyd's retelling is a highly readable, prose version in modernEnglish, using expletive and avoiding euphemism, making the Talesmuch more accessible to a new generation of readers. The editionalso includes an introduction by Ackroyd, detailing some of thehistorical background to Chaucer and the Tales, and why he has beeninspired to translate them for a new generation of readers.

'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning toColumbia.' In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombiandestroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, driftingon a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells thesurvivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness andthirst to his determination to survive. "The Story of a ShipwreckedSailor" was Marquez's first major, and controversial, work,published in a Colombian newspaper, "El Espectador", in 1955 andthen in book form in 1970.

Three timeless works by Tennessee Williams, the foremostAmerican playwright of his time. Sweet Bird of Youth The Rose Tattoo The Night of the Iguana

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story ofHarry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into runningcontraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping hiscrumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him intothe world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm theregion, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel,Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of boththe "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtleand moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funnyand tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a newlevel. As the Times Literary Supplement observed,"Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, andfor communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, hasnever been more conspicuous."

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.

This superb new translation of "Death in Venice" and six otherstories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, sure to establish itselfas the definitive text for English-speaking readers. The sevenstories in this collection represent the early part of Mann'sliterary career, beginning with work he produced in 1896 at the ageof 21, and culminating in his most celebrated novella, "Death inVenice" (1912). Although Mann continued working until the end ofhis life in 1955, he despaired of ever matching the quality of hisearly writing. In these stories, Mann began to grapple with themesthat were to recur throughout his work. In the first piece, "LittleHerr Friedemann," as in "Death in Venice," a character's carefullystructured way of life is suddenly and unexpectedly threatened bysexual passion. In "Gladius Dei," puritanical intellect clasheswith beauty. In "Tristan," Mann presents an ironic and comicalaccount of tension between an artist and bourgeois society. Allseven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but

Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

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．

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment.