Penguin popular classics BILLY BUDD,SAILOR COMPLETE AND UNABRI The last great work of Melville's.H.M.S.Bellipotent. When Billy,a handsome,unjpretentious,stuttering young able-seaman,is falsely accused of inciting mutiny,he lashes out,kills his accuser and is condemde to die.Written in allusive and beautiful prose,many-layered,resonant with ideans and meanings,Billy Budd has inspierd drama,films and opera and continues to elude interpretation. The main theme of the novel,however is generally conidered to be the vulnerabillity of innocence in a fallen world.Billy,a victim of one man's unnatural hatred,is the embodiment of goodness destuoyed by evil,but as 'the criminap pays the penalty of his crime',a greater justice comes into play. 作者简介： HERMAN MELVILLE（1819-91）.Ome of America's greatest autobrs.Melville is best remembered as the creator of Moby Dick,a novel since heralded as a tuiumph of nineteenth-centrury American fiction. Herman Melville was born in New York City in
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From the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of SirLancelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epicadventures with the supernatural as well as timeless battles without own humanity.
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, ayoung Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreamsof wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing,filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in ajungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the"muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turnof the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of"wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, astory so shocking that it launched a government investigation,recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair isalso a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one ofthe most important -- and moving -- works in the literature ofsocial change. --This text refers to an alternate Mass MarketPaperback edition.
In Aristophanes’ most popular play, sex is a powerful agent ofreconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, ledby Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until theystop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins
Set during the French Revolution, this classic novel ofswashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also athoughtprovoking commentary on class, inequality, and theindividual's role in society-a story that has become RafaelSabatini's enduring legacy.
Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by leading Shakespeare scholar, William C. Carroll, providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.
The 1920s novel of a passion threatened by convention andplayed outagainst a backdrop of New York City-s upper class,unimaginable wealth,and unavoidable tragedy.
The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on a novella by Shakespeare's enemy and arch rival Robert Greene, The Winter's Tale introduces Perdita, perhaps the Bard's most richly symbolic character. At times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and instructive, The Winters Tale is a complex and rewarding work by the greatest dramatist of all time.
Each edition includes: · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Cynthia Marshall The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.
Amazon.com Review "'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is muchmore than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in thatsense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warmdarkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason thatthe faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton,known for her keen observations of an emotionally stiflingupper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for manyyears she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing aghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is thissharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through askeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghoststory." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales,including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "PomegranateSeed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographicalpost*. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title. Product De*ion
Tolstoy startled the world with this powerful story ofadultery and its aftermath, of the human need for love andhappiness, and of the unyielding demands of society.
Here is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback;Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest torturedby his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony,it is a work that gives full play to the author's brilliantimagination.
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation and deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 and is considered her greatest tragic story.
