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。

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearbylighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and movingexamination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life,and the conflict between male and female principles, in what isprobably her most popular novel.

In a society dominated by religion and bound by ties of strictfamily loyalty, two teenagers are trapped by their secret love. Asa dangerous vendetta spills onto the streets, the young lovers areforced to risk all to be together in Shakespeare’s fast-pacedtragedy of thwarted love. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and generalreaders, these modern and accessible editions from the RoyalShakespeare Company set

“Long live the King,”hailed Entertainment Weekl yupon the publication of Stephen King's ON WRITING.Part memoir,part master chass by one of the bestselling authors of al time,this superbvolume is a revealing and practical view of the wroter's craft,comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood throunded his emergence as a writer,from his struggling early career to his widely reported,near-fatal accident in I999-and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.Brilliantly structured,friendly and inspiring,ON WRITING will empower and entertain everyone who reads it-fans,writers,and anyone who loves a great story well told.

Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this playturns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused ofunfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicatedand reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten todarken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay–but the hilariouscounterplot of a warring couple, Beatrice and Benedick, steals thescene as the two are finally tricked into admitting their love foreach other in Shakespeare’s superb comedy of manners. Each Edition Includes: Comprehensive explanatory notes Vivid introductions and the most up-to-datescholarship Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enablingcontemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated, detailed bibliographies andperformance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play,along with an extensive filmography From the Paperback edition.

The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen fromhis home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north toendure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man andbeast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, partwolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by thepatience and affection of one man. Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller and his uncannyunderstanding of animal and human natures give these tales astriking vitality and power, and have earned him a reputation as adistinguished American writer.

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) If William Shakespeare hadnever written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely uponthe substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he leftbehind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchyof world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets-intimate,baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawnfrom classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by apoem like "The Phoenix and the Turtle"-permanently deepen ourunderstanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of ourgreatest poet.

This is the perfect introduction for young readers to the lives and times of America’s 43 most influential leaders. Just as the new president is inaugurated, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each president’s term in office, and the major political issues of each era. Quick-reference sidebars provide brief summaries of the major events and important people who emerged during each presidential term. Famous quotes and fun facts about each president ensure that this perennial favorite continues to be an entertaining and enlightening addition to any child’s library.

A pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing theother has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourningfor her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall ofher puritanical steward. Disguise, confusion, and mistaken identityfollow in Shakespeare’s great comedy of love in all itsmanifestations. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions fro

Edited with an Introduction by David Galloway.

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions. "Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Souud and the Fury, and includes a selection of Faulkner's letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner's 1933 "Introduction" to the novel. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives, two of them new to the Second Edition, on the South's place in history. Taken together, these works by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warren provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel. "Criticism" includes seventeen essays on The Sound and the Fury that collectively trace changes in the way we hav

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. Summer is the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

The 18 plays are: "The Shadowy Waters"; "Cathleen inHoulihan"; "The Hour Glass"; "On Baile's Strabd"; "The GreenHelmet"; "Deirdre"; "At the Hawk's Well"; "The Dreaming of theBones"; "The Cat and the Moon"; "The Only Jealousy of Emer";"Calvary"; "Sophocles' King Oedipus"; "The Resurrection"; "TheWords Upon the Windwo-FPane"; "The King of the Great Clock Tower";"The herne's Egg"; "Purgatory"; and, "The Death of Cuchulain".

At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provides a powerful look at Americans who struggle to achieve their desires and ambitions. With the stories of ordinary men and women accomplishing the extraordinary, Rather demonstrates how the American dream brings us together and guides us, as it has for more than 200 years. For some, the American dream is simply to own a home or rise out of poverty. Some wish to serve God, country, or community. There are those who want to learn to read or run their own business. Still others simply wish to exercise fundamental American rights: to openly practice their religion and to speak what is in their minds and hearts. Stirring and provocative, The American Dream illustrates that the basic American desire for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is alive and well. It also confirms what our founding fathers always believed: that we are a country of visionari

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, holda position of singular eminence in the world of French letters.Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work,it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, LeNausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and mostsignificant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the TwentiethCentury and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Shakespeare's four greatesttragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time,between 1598 and 1606. "Hamlet," "Othello," "Macbeth," and "KingLear" are each so singular an achievement that any rereading ofthem reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that thismost uncanny of the world's great writers invariably inspires. Inthese four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is centralto tragedy and crucial to any human community--the problem ofviolence and revenge--on an unprecedented scale. No other literarytexts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge ofourselves as individuals and as a civilization. This authoritativeedition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes,bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life andtimes, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tannerdiscusses each play individually while setting each in context.

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for theirlives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest ofArden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust,and mistaken identity. One of Shakespeare’s great comedies, As YouLike It subverts the traditional rules of romance, confusing genderroles, nature, and politics. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Eachplay includes an Introduction as well as an overview ofShakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and currentproductions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, anddesigners; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; achronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-whiteillustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and acces

Though the story has been told on film—and whispered inhistoric gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years tosolely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved RobertDudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue,their relationship set the explosive connection between public andprivate life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why didthey never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsessionwas actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicesterreignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyoneinterested in Elizabethan literature.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Naguib Mahfouz's magnificentepic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for thefirst time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is theengrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain'soccupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.The novels of "The Cairo Trilogy" trace three generations of thefamily of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, whorules his household with a strict hand while living a secret lifeof self-indulgence. "Palace Walk" introduces us to his gentle,oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija,and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolutehedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal.Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond hisdomination in "Palace of Desire," as the world around them opens tothe currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoilbrought by the 1920s. "Sugar Street" brings Mahfouz's vividtapestr

A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeareplays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited bytwo brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars JonathanBate and Eric Rasmussen Incorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from WilliamShakespeare: Complete Works-the first authoritative, modernizededition of Shakespeare's First Folio in more than 300 years-thisremarkable series of individual plays combines Jonathan Bate'sinsightful critical analysis with Eric Rasmussen's textualexpertise.

Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular works of fiction published in England in the eighteenth century, and one of the best satires ever written. This new Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1726 text, the version that textual scholars now maintain should be the basis for all modern editions of the work. It is accompanied by extensive textual annotations and a dozen illustrations.

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer,Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888,slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who werehunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to thisday the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leaveclues to his identity, and numerous theories have been entertainedthroughout the one hundred and twenty years since he held London sEast End in his grip of terror. This book looks at the evidenceleft by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers whichrecorded the atrocities that the ripper performed. It takes time toanalyse the existing information and evaluate the letters sent tothe police. It is the strongest and most powerful book ever writtenon the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper,and eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators,leaving only those who realistically could have been... Jack theRipper.

Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poeticrevolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and itsanti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's andColeridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic periodand remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on'the essential passions of the heart' and achieves a penetratinginsight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridgeexplores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination and also writespoems of quiet, conversational meditation. Both poets look with afresh and visionary eye at the human and the natural world. Theyexamine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge ofsociety; they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and theprocesses of introspection and memory. This volume contains all ofLyrical Ballads (1798) with Wordsworth's Preface of 1800/1802, anda wide-ranging selection of both poet's other work, includingvirtually all their best known and discussed shorter poems.