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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain’s most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects, and much more.
One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But One Man's Bible is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph. 作者简介： Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is an artistic innovator, in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multitalented artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist, director, and painter. In addition to Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible, a book of his plays, The Other Shore, and a volume of his p
Comment quitte-t-on quelqu'un ? Et pourquoi ? Voici dix-neufnouvelles froides et cinglantes, dix-neuf petites histoires quinous plongent au coeur des ruptures. Un homme amoureux de sa femmese rend compte qu'elle a un amant et part chasser avec lui.Ira-t-il jusqu'au bout ? Une femme qui a déjà vécu s'aper?oitqu'elle éprouve des sentiments pour son gigolo ; une autre rentrede week-end à l'improviste et découvre la trahison de son mari...Gr?ce à la vivacité d'esprit, à la légèreté de ton de l'auteur, onse surprend à sourire impitoyablement face aux déboires despersonnages.
On raconte à Saint-Pétersbourg que la vieille comtesse X***possède un moyen infaillible de gagner au jeu. Pour s'enrichir etéchapper à sa modeste condition, l'officier Hermann veut absolumentconna?tre ce secret. Il est prêt à tout pour y parvenir : séduirela jeune Lisavéta Ivanovna, dame de compagnie de la comtesse,pénétrer de nuit dans le palais de la vieille dame, la menacer pourlui arracher l'aveu de son secret. Sa hardiesse sera-t-ellerécompensée ? Le dossier propose des exercices pour repérer les éléments clés desdifférentes nouvelles et pour étudier l'écriture de Pouchkine, quioscille entre réalisme et fantastique.
A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean's friendship,although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it wouldhave seemed unbelievable that the bond between them could ever bebroken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differencesbetween them widening, sharpening their teasing words intosomething crueller and less easy to forgive. 'Both a serialromantic and a truly gifted novelist' - Mariella Frostrup, "Mail onSunday". 'Winton's writing is a heady blend of muscularde*ion, deep sentiment and metaphysics' - "SundayTelegraph".
Bliss is a collection that sparkles with vitality and captures moments of telling significance.Widely recognised as one of the greatest writers of her period,Katherine Mansfield shows supreme control of her technique,With the deftness of a movie camera she zooms in with remarkable accuracy on those emotionally charged moments when an individual in most revealing.Her delicacy and the childlike quality of her vision lend a freshness and charm to her work that is enchanting.conveying as much by omission as by statement,she creates a delicate structure that is reminiscent of Chekhov,and a word of art that is akin to lyric poetry.
A cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster Ali Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance—and doom—in this exciting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Hand of Evil Ex–television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement to remodel her new home. But when the savagely murdered body of stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Ali’s contractor Bryan is the prime suspect. Bryan swears he has nothing to do with his wife’s murder—but as the investigation progresses, Ali seems to be the only person who believes him. Determined to prove Bryan’s innocence, she logs onto singleatheart.com, a dating site for "married singles," and unknowingly lands herself directly in the path of a calculating killer. With her "trademark breathless pace" (Publishers Weekly), New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance ramps up the suspense as Ali races to decode the actions of a vengeful computer hacker . . . before he uses his wicked website to find her.
'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, sosoft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt againsther cheek. 'Mine's silver lame, it smells like a bird cage when itgets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts arelong again?' Ah, the dresses! But oh, the monotony of the Season,with its endless run of glittering balls. Even fabulouslyfashionable Polly Hampton - with her startling good looks andexcellent social connections - is beginning to wilt under theglare. Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsomeLady Montdore, Polly instead scandalizes society by declaring herlove for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, andpromptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union noone could quite expect ..."Love in a Cold Climate" is the wickedlyfunny follow-up to "The Pursuit of Love" and explores the mysteryof sexual attraction.
When FBI Agent John O'Hara first meets Nora Sinclair. she seems perfect.She has the career. The charisma. The tantalising sex appeaL The whole extraordinary package - Nora doesn't just attract men. she enthrals them She's worked hard for this life and she will never give it up, So why is the FBI so interested in Miss Sinclair? Mysterious things keep happening to the men in her life. And when Agent O'Hara looks more closely he sees something dangerous about Nora - something that lures him at the same time as it fills him with fear. And the more time he spends with her the less he knows whether he is pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
The Extraordinary "New York Times" Bestseller In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy. ?This exquisite novel is bigger and more ambitious than it appears? Fowler's shrewdest, funniest fiction yet, a novel about how we engage with a novel. You don?t have to be a student of Jane Austen to enjoy it, either. . . Lovers of Austen will relish this book
In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he's an invalid his whole life? You want him...killed? Let me talk to someone. It can be done. The hanging death of a nonde* old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug -- and a killer who stays until the last dance. 作者简介： Ed McBain is the only American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of Ame
From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization. For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship—from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction—and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time–killing, bureaucratic check–and–balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.
And so, another Terry Brooks trilogy has come to an end. With Straken, Brooks has now ended his “High Druid of Shannara” series, and he does it on a pretty good note. This has certainly been his strongest series for quite a while now, but even so, the last book has some major faults that keep it from being wonderful. According to his web site, he is writing a "Pre-Shannara" trilogy next, which is supposedly about the fall of the civilization that led to the way the Four Lands are today. It seems different enough, and I hope that it stays that way, as Straken (not to mention this entire series) shows that he really needs a break from it. Maybe completely changing the focus will help. When we last left our heroes, Grianne Ohmsford, the High Druid (or "Ard Rhys") had been captured in the Forbidding (an alternate plane where the druids had imprisoned all of the demons of the world) by a demon with ambitions beyond the Forbidding. In fact, they were plans to destroy it and unleash the imprisoned demonic
