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。
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be amodel cou-ple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young childrenand a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too youngand started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. AndApril never saw herself as a housewife.Yet they have always livedon the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.But now that certainty is about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, RichardYates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritualbirthright, betraying not only each other, but their bestselves.
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of "In Searchof Lost Time," refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchessde Guermantes's chateau near Combray. It also represents thenarrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of theGuermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectual playground forParisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and mannersof the Guermantes's drawing room. Here he encounters nobles,officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert deSaint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron deCharlus, and the Prince de Borodino. For this authoritativeEnglish-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the lateTerence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff'stranslation to take into account the new definitive French editionsof "A la recherche du temps perdu" (the final volume of these neweditions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in1989).
Discover what realty gives you satisfaction and fulfillment——then toss out the other junk and learn to live!. Bogged down With the "stuff of life"? Want to enjoy your life, not just be consumed by the details? Family expert Karen Levine helps you to,identify What brings you contentment and pleasure and shows you how to rejec the tasks, the mindsets, and the possessions that drag you down. ...
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessentialself-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age ofChivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-centuryengineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of pastand present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias,destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’sfaith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, AConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilariouscomedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, autopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only oneof America’s greatest writers could pen.
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Callme Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride andPrejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. Andcertainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does formarriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and anunblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a countryvillage and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips,and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single manof good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer.Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival asan opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters.Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennetgirl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs.Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three youngerdaughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls,Jane and Elizabeth
The Boynton/Cook editions of four of Shakespeare's most popularplays have been reissued with attractive new cover designs andprinted on more opaque, easy-to-read paper. This series isspecifically designed for high school classes. Students will be able to see each play as a whole. In theirintroduction to each of the plays, editors Mack and Boynton suggestways of approaching the text that allow the reader a broad range ofimaginative involvement. Their observations are intended to helpstudents read and experience the play, not to discourage them withcritical jargon or peripheral historical information. Students will be reading the best text both in terms of visualexcellence and quality of scholarship. They'll immediatelyappreciate the large page format and highly readable typography.Each volume is consistent with the most authoritative early editionof each play. The glosses are full and clear but don't belabor theobvious or clutter the text. Background information includes the editors' detailed analysis ofthe
"The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman whotransforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals whoplan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology andher bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpectedchallenges in their quest to incite social change againstcomplacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of theintersections between the personal and the political, Nobellaureate Doris Lessing creates in "The Good Terrorist" a compellingportrait of domesticity and rebellion.
These two history plays—one written in the early days ofShakespeare’s career and one at the very end—are alike in thecomplexity of their political vision. King John probes thenature of good and evil as self-interest and ruthless ambitionproceed unchecked while an unpopular ruler wages a brutal fight tokeep his throne. Henry VIII is a sumptuous spectacle of pompand ceremony, as well as an exploration of the mysterious ways inwhich the rise and fall from power of individuals led ultimately toEngland’s destiny as a Protestant nation.
First published in 1919, "Within a Budding Grove" was awardedthe Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In thissecond volume of "In Search of Lost Time," the narrator turns fromthe childhood reminiscences of "Swann's Way" to memories of hisadolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann'sdaughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbecwith his grandmother and meets a new object ofattention--Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes andplump, matt cheeks." For this authoritative English-languageedition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin'sacclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to takeinto account the new definitive French editions of "A la recherchedu temps perdu" (the final volume of these new editions waspublished by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).
"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging stormincreased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." Fromthese dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. Onefamily will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons--aSwiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shiploadof livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe," " thisheartwarming tale portrays a family's struggle to create a new lifeon a strange and fantastic tropical island. There each boy mustlearn to utilize his own unique nature as their adventures lead todifficult challenges and amazing discoveries, including a puzzlingmessage tied to an albatross's leg. But it is in the ingenuity andauthenticity of the family itself, and the natural wonders of thisexotic land that have made The Swiss Family Robinson," " firstpublished at the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of themost enduring and imitated stories of shipwreck and survival. "Fromthe Paperback edition."
In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeareturns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination ofJulius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one oftumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides ofMarch”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!”Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is tolearn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracyagainst a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movementonce Caesar is dead. Each Edition Includes: · Comprehensive explanatory notes · Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship · Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enablingcontemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English · Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performancehistories · An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, alongwith an extensive filmography From the Paperback edition.
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.
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.
"A GOLD MINE FOR SCHOLARS." *Deidre Carmody The New York TimesNow, in this extraordinary literary uncovering, the original firsthalf of Mark Twain's American masterpiece is available for thefirst time ever to a general readership. Lost for more than acentury, the passages reinstated in this edition reveal a noveleven more controversial than the version Twain published in 1885and provide an invaluable insight into his creative process. Abreakthrough of unparalleled impact, this comprehensive edition ofan American classic is the final rebuttal in the tireless debate of"what Twain really meant." " A] MASTERLY RESTORATION . . . I wishthis new version of Huckleberry Finn would be distributed to allthe nation's classrooms as the basic text and lead to a badlyneeded reconsideration of the questions it raises." *James A.McPherson Chicago Tribune "THOUGHTFULLY RESPECTS TWAIN'SINTENTIONS." *Gary Lee Stonum The Cleveland Plain Dealer With aForeword and Addendum by Victor Doyno "From the Paperbackedition."
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains ofthe Day" "comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born inearly-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age ofnine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, morethan twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in Londonsociety; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him famehas done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents'alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthinecity of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own,painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyondrecognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficultto trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful andpsychologically acute, When We Were Orphans" "offers a profoundmeditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibilityof avenging one's past.
