Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale. This Norton Critical Edition presents twelve of Tolstoy’s best-known stories, based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translations (except “Alyosha Gorshok”), which have been revised by the editor for enhanced comprehension and annotated for student readers. The Second Edition newly includes “A Prisoner in the Caucasus,” “Father Sergius,” and “After the Ball,” in addition to Michael Katz’s new translation of “Alyosha Gorshok.” Together these stories represent the best of the author’s short fiction before War and Peace and after Anna Karenina. “Backgrounds and Sources” includes two Tolstoy memoirs, A History of Yesterday (1851) and The Memoirs of a Madman (1884), as well as entries—expanded in the Second Edition—from Tolstoy’s “Diary for 1855” and selected letters (1858–95) that shed light on the author’s creative p

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.

The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare’s most insightful meditations on the cycle of life—ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations. “Sources and Contexts” offers a rich collection of documents on the play’s central themes—magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naudé, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey. “Criticism” collects eighteen responses to The Tempest, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. “Rewritings and Appropriations” includes creative reactions to The Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.

GRAHAM SWIFT was born in l 949 and iS theauthor of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of shortstories；his most recent work iS Making an Elephant,a book ofessays，portraits，poetry and reflections on his life in writing．WithWaterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize(1 983)，and with LastOrders the Booker Prize(1 996)．Both novels have since been madeinto films．Graham Swirl’S work has appeared in over thirtylanguages．

A new volume of poems brings readers startling visions of theworld in which we all live, exploring a haunted landscape on thebrink in which the mundane and surreal, profane and sacred areindistinguishable.

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings likethemselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens,fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in theircruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom forthe more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, authorof Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

"That Little Something "is the superb eighteenth collection fromone of America's most vital and honored poets. Over the course ofhis singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade,including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet laureate ofthe United States from 2007 to 2008.His wry humor and darklyilluminating vision are on full display here as he moves close tothe dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understandsthe strange interplay between the ordinary and the odd, betweenreality and imagination. "That Little Something "is a stunningcollection from "not only one of the most prolific poets but alsoone of the most distinctive, accessible, and enjoyable" ("New YorkTimes Book Review").

"行、止、坐、卧，仍是处处危机，充满了挑战，但是她以天生的智慧与坚持，由匍伏到站立，已在学术的石阶上站稳，她的手里高举着自己的一炬之火了。在她火炬照亮的一些幽深角落，有许多人重振勇气，找到一生美好的道路；她适时的安慰劝勉，胜过别人的十倍鼓励。——齐邦媛教授她的散文承载着人世间温馨感人，自然真挚，而多姿多韵的人际境界；惠绵悲天悯人，信守道义的性情襟抱也洋溢其中。——曾永义教授我们看着她一路遭遇各种病痛、横逆，但却能以感恩之心，领获各种关爱之情；终至自成「一炬之火」点燃照亮众多的莘莘学子，令我们既怜惜又庆幸，既欣慰又敬佩。本书亦将如她先前的《用手走路的人》一样，继续感动与启示广大读者们……——柯庆明教授饱受病痛与行动不便折磨的李惠绵教授，家人呵护备至的爱让她成长，师长、朋友

An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian