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。

传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding thecreation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing acautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love withhis magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the bookwho doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. AnnaKarenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist intheir own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-centuryRussian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whosename it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by awriter. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society.

Book De*ion This work tells the storyof 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark,London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket inCanterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tellstories to one another, shot through with cunning wit and dryhumour. About this book: Geoffey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) was one of thefinest storytellers in the English language, as well as being agreat poet and an accomplished prose writer. The Canterbury Tales,although incomplete at the time of Chaucer's death, is generallyregarded as his greatest work. The Canterbury Tales tells the storyof 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark,London and journey together to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket inCanterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tellstories to one another. The Tales themselves range from theexemplary saints' lives told by the nuns, to the bawdy, comic talesof the miller and the reeve, always shot through with Chaucer'scunning wit and dr

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by CatherinePeters A panoramic satire of English society during the NapoleonicWars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece. Atits center is one of the most unforgettable characters innineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, acharmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leavebehind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentlefriend Amelia, by contrast, only cares for Captain George Osborne,despite his selfishness and her family's disapproval. As both womenmove within the flamboyant milieu of Regency England, the politicalturmoil of the era is matched by the scheming Becky's sensationalrise--and its unforeseen aftermath. Based in part upon Thackeray'sown love for the wife of a friend, Vanity Fair portrays thehypocrisy and corruption of high society and the dangers ofunrestrained ambition with epic brilliance and scathing wit.

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death,here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary worksof world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures withunprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during theNapoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Balls andsoirées, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen andgenerals, scenes of violent battles, the quiet moments of everydaylife--all in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has neverbeen surpassed. The Maudes' translation of Tolstoy's epicmasterpiece has long been considered the best English version, andnow for the first time it has been revised to bring it fully intoline with modern approaches to the text. French passages arerestored, Anglicization of Russian names removed, and outmodedexpressions updated. A new introduction by Amy Mandelker considersthe novel's literary and historical context, the nature of thework, and Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical aims. New, expandednotes provid

Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon whichWestern culture can be founded ... it is hardly too much to saythat these tales rank next to the Bible in importance. - W.H.Auden A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legendscollected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter Screen Saver by Novel of Kim Edwards. It is 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, and a rare and sudden winter storm has blanketed the area with snow. The roads are dangerous, yet Dr. David Henry is determined to get his wife Norah to the hospital in time to deliver their first child. But despite David's methodical and careful driving, it soon becomes clear that the roads are too treacherous, and he decides to stop at his medical clinic instead. There, with the help of his nurse Caroline, he is able safely to deliver their son, Paul. But unexpectedly, Norah delivers a second child, a girl, Phoebe, in whom David immediately recognizes the signs of Down's Syndrome.

Lively and informed narrative by two expert authorities in their field. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman'sLibrary--the most extensive and distinguished collectible libraryof the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in asmall Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and readingpleasure. "Christmas Stories" is a treasury of short fiction bygreat writers of the past two centuries--from Dickens and Tolstoyto John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmashas inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fancifulflights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression isrepresented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolicin the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghostdisrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's "Green Holly." Theplight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's "Vanka" and WillaCather's "The Burglar's Christmas" but takes a boisterously comicturn in Damon Runyon's "Dancing Dan's Christmas" and in JohnCheever's "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor." From VladimirN

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' -Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is agreat coming of age story which can be read as the essentialprelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father'sdeath and gripped by determination to write the Great AmericanNovel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.

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.

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogantand insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songsand tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town -particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as thetown's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a Germansailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among thespiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in theadults' war.

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism,the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, andBerlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In thisseries of provocative, passionate, and wittyessays, Umberto Ecoexamines a wide range of phenomena,from Harry Potter, the Tower ofBabel, talk shows, and the Enlightenment to The Da Vinci Code/ Whatled us, he asks,into this age of hot wars and media populism, andhow was it sold to us as progress? In Turning Back the Clock, thebestselling author and respected scholar turns his famous intellecttoward events both local and global to look at where our troubledworld is headed.

This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are nowgenerally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding the Sonnets. Itcontains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and theTurtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. Theintroduction to the two long narrative poems examines their placewithin the classical and Renaissance European traditions, an issuewhich also applies to The Phoenix and the Turtle. John Roe analysesthe conditions in which the collection was produced, and weighs theevidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover'sComplaint and the much-debated question of its genre. Hedemonstrates how in his management of formal tropes Shakespeare,like the best Elizabethans, fashions a living language out ofhandbook oratory. This updated edition contains a new introductorysection on recent critical interpretations and an updated readinglist.

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosenby the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Readprogram. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains suchfamously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as "TheTell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask ofAmontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum," and suchunforgettable poems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee."Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story,represented here by "The Purloined Letter," "The Mystery of MarieRoget," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Also included is his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," inwhich he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describinghow he constructed "The Raven" as an example.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies avision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dreamcountry, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death bybeheading for andquot; gnostical turpitude.andquot; an imaginarycrime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days inan absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. anexecutioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by hisin-laws. who lug their furniture with them into his cell. WhenCincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills hisexecutioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the wholeworld they inhabit.

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throngoutside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to MollyLane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's loversin the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive isBritain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor ofthe newspaper "The Judge." Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers,too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notoriousright-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days thatfollow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact withconsequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make adisastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to itslimits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life.A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comicnovel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likelyto pick up this year" ("The Washington Post Book World").

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "A Tale of Two Cities" begins ona muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery anddrama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with oneof the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In betweenlies one of Charles Dickens's most exciting books- a historicalnovel that, generation after generation, has given readers accessto the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social andpolitical events. Famous for the character of Sydney Carton, whosacrifices himself upon the guillotine-"It is a far, far betterthing that I do, than I have ever done"-the novel is also apowerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused bythe Revolution, and is illuminated by Dickens's lively comedy. Thisedition reprints the original Everyman introduction by G. K.Chesterton and includes sixteen illustrations by Phiz.

A revised edition of a medieval masterpiece-the firstnarrative history written by a woman Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter ofByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one ofthe most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon ofmedieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of theimperial couple, reveals the inner workings of the court, profilesits many extraordinary personages, and offers a firsthand accountof immensely significant events such as the First Crusade, as wellas its impact on the relationship between eastern and westernChristianity. A celebrated triumph of Byzantine letters, this is anunparalleled view of the glorious Constantinople and the medievalworld.