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。
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells hissoul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works.Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full ofstinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of DorianGray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when itfirst appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence andcorrupting influence, and a few years later the book and theaesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trialsoccasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted inhis imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde notedin a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry whatthe world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages,perhaps."
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Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular forover a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity ofhappiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found hiswork elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of itmannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smoothtexts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive manwrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution,Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotionsconflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual,rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with thehandsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreetaffair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society)would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Annaand Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman KonstantineLevin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted bythoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritualcrisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotionalimprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares totransgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism andcreated a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul. A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution,Anna Kareni
From the author who gave us THE SCARLET LETTER and THE HOUSEOF THE SEVEN GABLES, here is a comprehensive selection of hisbest short stories, including: Endicott and the Red Cross Young Goodman Brown Earth's Holocaust Ethan Brand My Kinsman, Major Molineux And more!
"Men Without Women" was a milestone in Hemingway's career."Fiesta" had already established him as a novelist of exceptionalpower, but with these short stories, his second collection, heshowed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, torecreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life detailsobserved only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway'smen are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers,gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculinetoughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pareddown to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.
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
"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger'smost famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. Thetitle story recounts a Sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in"The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers' fan-letters. 'A Perfect Day forBananafish' is the first of the author's stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who wouldappear in much of Salinger's later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldestsibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida. --This text refers to analternate Paperback edition.
Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon'EVENING STANDARD 'Delightfully observant nostalgia.., will strike a chord with both sexes' SHE 'A warm, funny romantic comedy' DAILY MAIL 'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' THE TIMES "Thirty means only going to the pub if there,s somewhere to sit down, Thiity means owning at least one classical CD, even if it's New That's What I Call Classical Vol 6. Thirty means calling off the search for the perfect partner because now, after al! thee years in the wilderness, you've finally found what you've been looking for." Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him.and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Within hours,his mum and dad
Upon its publication in 1857, "Little Dorrit" immediatelyoutsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of WilliamDorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughterand helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progressof the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction,David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift fromwhich Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, hisnear-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense ofthe ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance." This ModernLibrary Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857edition.
The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of thegreatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-knownpoets. Each collection has a specially commissionedintroduction. This work contains the poetic works of John Milton. It includes"Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained", "L'Allegro", "Il Penseroso","Comus" and various sonnets and miscellaneous poems.
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.
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of thegreatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessiblepaperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.”—John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerlessimaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prosestylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire,and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument ofecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous andcontroversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,”“The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs andSymbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from hismemoir Speak, Memory.
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.
The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet TomasTranstromer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990.Translated by Michael McGriff, Transtromer's great work isavailable in its first single-volume English edition.
This laugh-out-loud-funny novel comes from peter Farrelly,co-creator of the hit movies Dumb and Dumber,There's Something About Mary and Me,Myself and Irene. Hilari-ous yet melancholy,it tells of a young man's coming-of-age in the 1970s.Timothy Dunphy is a native of working class Pawtucket,Rhode Island.His mother killed herself if the family garage,and his tough-talking father calls him 'Dildo'. But Ti-mothy's meagre existence takes a turn when his old man exploits some shady connecti-ons to get him into a fancy connecticut prep shool.Timothy finds that the privileged elite are hardly immune to life's screw-ups,but he must also reconcile his pedigreed schoolmates with his mongrel friends back home,like slow-witted Bunny Cote and Quaa-lude-popping 'Drugs'Delaney.
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and peopl
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war withRussia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is aninexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his greatnovel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these,the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary PrinceAndrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrateTolstoy's philosophy.
In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history’s most repellent, and the theater’s most mesmerizing, figures. This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play with interpolations from the First Folio (1623). The play is accompanied by a preface, explanatory annotations, A Note on the Text, a list of Textual Variants, and eighteen illustrations of seminal scenes from major dramatic productions and film versions of the play. “Contexts” provides readers with the sources and analogues that informed Shakespeare’s composition of Richard III. These include excerpts from Robert Fabyan’s New Chronicles of England and France, Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III, Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The True Tragedy of Richard III. A selection from Colley Cibber’s eighteenth-century adaptation records the compr
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER,HUGH GRANT AND COLIN FIRTH A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic,tragic insight into the edmise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire and lives in London and Los Angeles.She worked for several years for the BBCand now writes for various newspapers.Her first novel,Cause Celeb,was published by Picador in 1994.Bridget Jones's Diary was published to international acclaim in 1996,as was the sequel,Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason in 1999.
First published in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise Highthe Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are twonovellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be aportrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leavefrom the army during World War II to attend the wedding of theeldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentoussuspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow. In thesecond, Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds intoa deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad characterwhich displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguishthe best of Salinger's writing.
