Constance Garnett’s translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability. Dostoevsky’s sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynus’s Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevsky’s letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulsky’s essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevsky’s symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included. 作者简介：Ralph E. Matlaw was Profes

An entertaining series of 100 stories told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women seeking to escape the plague. Vivid portraits of people from all stations in life. An Oxford University Press World Classic.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding--that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives--the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness--are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made TheKiteRunner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love--a stunning accomplishment.

Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novelsfrom the founding father of science fiction. The first great novelto imagine time travel, "The Time Machine" (1895) follows itsscientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finallyto Earth's last moments--and perhaps his own. The scientist whodiscovers how to transform himself in "The Invisible Man" (1897)will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored fromsociety and from his own sanity. "The War of the Worlds"(1898)--the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by OrsonWelles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently byseveral filmmakers--imagines a fierce race of Martians whodevastate Earth and feed on their human victims while theirvoracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.Here are three classic science fiction novels that, more than acentury after their original publication, show no sign of losingtheir grip on readers' imaginations.

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories" contains ten ofHemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.Selected from "Winner TakeNothing, Men Without Women, " and "TheFifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, " this collectionincludes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories tobe accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical"Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time inHemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Lifeof Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation,heresay, and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, CarlosBaker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I putall the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fillfour novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in theiroriginality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories inthis volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at thetop of his form.

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the storyof the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflictbetween the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich,imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as"magical realism."

One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe hasnever held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking worldas he deserves. This collection of his four major works, togetherwith a selection of his finest letters and poems, shows that he isnot only one of the very greatest European writers: he is alsoaccessible, entertaining, and contemporary. The Sorrows of Young Wertheris a story of self-destructive love that made its author acelebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration ofthe conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance anddesire, continues in his controversial novel probing theinstitution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama ofFaust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poeticexploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in theauthor’s old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact ofMediterranean culture on a young northerner.

A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hessecalled "the first great masterpiece of European storytelling." Inthe summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten youngmen and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertainthemselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring ahost of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings todevious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for"ten days," Boccaccio's book of stories draws on ancient mythology,contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced thework of myriad writers who came after him. J. G. Nichols's newtranslation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminentlyreadable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of thegreat classics of European literature.

John Kenneth Galbraith A brilliant achievement. The New York Times If ever a book answered a crying need, this one does. Here is all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish by a man who writes with immense vigor and skill, who has a rare gift for simplifying complexities. Leonard Silk Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is a living classic, both because he makes us see that the ideas of the great economists remain fresh and important for our times and because his own brilliant writing forces us to reach out into the future. Lester Thurow The Worldly Philosophers, quite simply put, is a classic....None of us can know where we are coming from unless we know the sources of the great ideas that permeate our thinking. The Worldly Philosophers gives us a clear understanding of the economic ideas that influence us whether or not we have read the great economic thinkers. Paul Samuelson Sinclair Le

The Comedy of Errors has been popular on the stage during thelast three centuries and has proved itself admirably suited toadaptation as pure farce and musical spectacle. For this updatededition, Ros King has provided a completely new Introduction to theexisting text and commentary, in which she argues that the playcannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classicalmodel, but belongs to the critically misunderstood genre oftragi-comedy. In stressing the seriousness which underlies thestory, the Introduction picks out the play's religious imagery forspecial attention, whilst also engaging fully with the play's deftlightness of touch and its continuing popularity in the theatre. Afresh Reading List guides the reader towards further study.

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.

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.

One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians,Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currentsrunning through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and hehas been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irishstudies. These essays reflect the key themes of Brown'sdistinguished career, most crucially his critical engagement withthe post-colonial model of Irish cultural and literary historycurrently dominant in Irish Studies. With essays on major figuressuch as Yeats, MacNeice, Joyce and Beckett, as well as contemporaryauthors including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, PaulMuldoon and Brian Friel, this volume is a major contribution toscholarship, directing scholars and students to new approaches totwentieth-century Irish cultural and literary history. · A volume of important essays by one of Ireland's foremostliterary critics · New critical perspectives on Joyce, Beckett,Yeats, MacNeice, Heaney, Friel, Muldoon and others · An importantinterv

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn , the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.

The fifteen essays in this captivating volume treat the innerrather than the outer，life of Japan For this reason，they have beengrouped under the title Kokoro, which can be translatedas“heart”。“spirit.”or“inner meaning”Indeed，Lafcadio Hearnpenetrates to the heart of things Japanese in“Kimiko，”a portrait ofa beautiful geisha；in“By Force of Karma.”the story of a Buddhistmonk；and in H Conservative.”a detail-ed de*ion of a samuraiLonger essays like "The Genius of. Japanese Civilization”and‘.AGlimpse of Tendencies”Shin up the author’s feelings about hisadopted country Hearn aptly called the pieces in this volume“hintsand echoes of Japanese inner life” Although much has changed sincethe days when Hearn fell in love with Japan. These“hints andechoes” still have a remarkable truth about them，for the Japanesespirit，or kokor0,has changed much less than the material conditionsof Japanese life It is Hearn's genius to have perceived what wasquintes sentially Japanese

For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings, as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg. Evoking Melville’s fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846. The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville’s interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person’s "q

With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, andstyles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosencollection of essays for composition students today. The TwelfthEdition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readingsnew and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing withguidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement.Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and ashorter edition, with 123.

FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES. Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations. Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century. Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general r

This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. "Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations" inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel’s major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. "Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Our ceaseless human quest forsomething larger than ourselves has never been represented withmore insight and love than in this story of "Don Quixote"-pursuinghis vision of glory in a ?mercantile age-and his shrewd, skepticalman?servant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world'swrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophicalspeculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasyon the way. The first and still the greatest of all Europeannovels, "Don Quixote" has been as important for the modern world asthe poems of Homer were for the ancients. Translated by P. A.Motteux

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. 作者简介：Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, Practicing Ne

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.

Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickenscompleted and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basicplot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, arocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host ofunforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing theauthor's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, andthe story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The moodis set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, andhis daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned menwhose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to theauthorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that islater identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning fromabroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered andthrown into the river. Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happensin the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on thecondition that he marry a girl he'd