This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has cor-rected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind this beloved work. Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are in-cluded, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A. Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and criti-cal reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role Victorian Christianity plays in the novel

The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of"The Kitchen Boy" Book groups and historical fiction buffs havemade Robert Alexanderas two previous novels word-of-mouth favoritesand national bestsellers. Set against a backdrop of ImperialRussiaas twilight, "The Romanov Bride" has the same enduringappeal. The Grand Duchess Elisavyetaas story begins like a fairytaleaa German princess renowned for her beauty and kind heartmarries the Grand Duke Sergei of Russia and enters the Romanovaslavish court. Her husband, however, rules his wife as he doesMoscowawith a cold, hard fist. And, after a peaceful demonstrationbecomes a bloodbath, the fires of the revolution link Elisavyetaasdestiny to that of Pavelaa young Bolshevikaforever.

Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love andnostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officerpoised between his past and his future relives his first loveaffair.

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing's shortfiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginningof her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France,the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect thethemes that have always characterized Lessing's work: the bedrockrealities of marriage and other relationships between men andwomen; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatenedby a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; thefate of women.

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end thisbrutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, richesand wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes andhunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of thevoyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of fortythieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequenceof stories will last 1,001 nights.

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of thehero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a youngpublisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armandeon the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from agrinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eightyears later--following a murder, a period of madness and a briefimprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle outhis past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time[are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, morecentrally, against the world of observable objects." --MartinAmis

Wishing she could enjoy the freedoms and pleasures so casuallyenjoyed by ordinary women, orthodox rabbi's daughter Rachelanticipates her arranged marriage and imagines what her life willbe like. Reprint.

Sony brings this powerful and moving story of love andredemption to the big screen in a major motion picture starringLiam Neeson, Uma Thurman, Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush, andClaire Danes.

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

Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises fourremarkable novels that explore social class in America and theinner lives of young Americans. In "A Garden of Earthly Delights,"Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole,the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers.Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence andpoverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clarastruggles for independence by way of her relationships with fourvery different men: her father, a family man turned itinerantlaborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, whorescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love;Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; andSwan, Clara's son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burdenof his mother's ambition. A masterly work from a writer with "theuncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America"("National Review"), "A Garden of Earthly Delights "is the openingstanza i

This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the finalbook from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings ofOisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist.It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozenpoems in alternative versions; in many other cases it providessignificant variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetrycan be experienced with unusual immediacy.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's most revolutionarynovel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line betweennineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visionsof self each century embodied. One of the most remarkablecharacters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former officialwho has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In fullretreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive,self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack onsocial utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrationalnature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevskytranslations have become the standard, give us a brilliantlyfaithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedyand tormented comedy of the original.

Book De*ion Toni Morrison's new novelis a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power andperversity, color and class that spans three generations of blackwomen in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who woulddo almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them maybe even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee,mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim onCosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue tooutright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny,erotic, and heart-wrenching. Amazon.com The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introductionto a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of theocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort.Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--BillCosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generationsof characters living in the seaside community. One clear truthhere, told time and ag

Since the original, prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a newgeneration. Each book is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

The real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magicalliterary detective story--subtle, intricate, leading to atantalizing climax--about the mysterious life of a famouswriter.

'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of anight of wild love with an adolescent virgin' He has never married,never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. Buton finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner'sbed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for thefirst time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by herfactory work, 'Delgadina' sleeps peacefully whilst he watches herquietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for herdeepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passionand the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the localnewspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpouringsthe enlivening and transformative power of love. The publication of"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" spearheads "Penguin's"celebration of Marquez's 80th birthday in 2007.

FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS, Amasterful newtranslation--never before pub-lished---of the novel in which FyodorDostoevskyset out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing CrimeandPunishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novelwith a verydifferent man at its center. InThe Idiot, the saintly PrinceMyshkin returns toRussia from a Swiss sanatorium and findshim-selfa stranger in a society obsessed with wealth,power, andsexual conquest. He soon becomesentangled in a love triangle with anotoriouskept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful younggirl, Aglaya.Extortion and scandal escalate tomurder, as Dostoevsky's"positively beautifulman" clashes with the emptiness of asocietythat cannot accommodate his innocence andmoral idealism. TheIdiot is both a powerfulindictment of that society and a rich andgrip-ping masterpiece.

Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centerof the town, the banana company arrived, pursued by the leaf storm.As a blizzard of warehouses and amusement parlours and slumsdescends on the small town of Macondo, the inhabitants reel at theaccompanying stench of rubbish that makes their homeunrecognisable. When the banana company leaves town as fast as itarrived, all they are left with is a void of decay. Living in thisdevastated and soulless wasteland is one last honourable man, theColonel, who is determined to fulfil a longstanding promise, nomatter how unpalatable it may be. With the death of the detestedDoctor, he must provide an honourable burial - and incur the wrathof the rest of Macondo, who would rather see the Doctor rot,forgotten and unattended.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The most perfect of Jane Austen'sperfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhousecomfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury,convinced that she has both the understanding and the right tomanage other people's lives-for their own good, of course. Herwell-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, thedangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealingHarriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton-and endswith her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life'smore intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured. Jane Austen'scomic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she coulduse it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us adazzling gallery of characters-some pretentious or ridiculous, someadmirable and moving, all utterly true.

Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story ofobsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and anobject of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refugefrom the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious andhe rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' sobsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world ofreality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championshipmatch, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under hisopponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.

"Criticism" features ten essays on The Book of theCourtier , which represent the best interpretations from theUnited States, Italy, and England including the backgrounds-richessays by Amedeo Quondam and James Hankins. A SelectedBibliography, a Chronology, and an Index are included.

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story ofthe young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexualmisadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents.Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity,young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzyingreversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vastlandscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the"golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic andvisionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in ahistorical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorowin his new foreword. "Kafka made his first novel from his ownmind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research datathat caught his eye were bent like light rays in a field ofgravity."