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。
After King Shahryar had his wife killed for cheating, he beganto corrupt-then kill-one virgin a night, as revenge on womankind.Then he meets Scheherazade, who, night after night, saves her ownlife by telling him fantastical tales of genies, wishes, terror,and passion.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.
If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewisereturns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be theApplause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible versionof the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modernfonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Foliotext forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices whichhave encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship andperformance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorialinterventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity ofinterpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations betweenFolios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries ofShakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the originalcountenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folioavailable in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folioeditions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance ofthe Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practicallyutilized in general Shakespeare
One of the most famous travel books ever written by anAmerican, here is an irreverent and incisive commentary on the "NewBarbarians'" encounter with the Old World. Twain's hilarious satireimpales with sharp wit both the chauvinist and thecosmopolitan.
Remember what it felt like when you first fell in love? Thatdelicious tingle down your spine or that wild moment of recognition when you first locked eyes with your soulmate? Now you can experience it again! 50 Ways to Meet Your Lover captures that glorious moment with real couples' stories of how, when, and where it happened to them. Each story is followed by a bit of advice from Cupid himself to reassure singles that love is just around the corner or to remind longtime lovers of the magic of their first encounter. Share this book with someone special and remember . love works in mysterious ways. Cathleen Rountree, artist, writer, lecture.r, and incurable romantic, is the author of Coming Into Our Fullness and On Women Turning 50.
With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts， Royal Holloway， University of London The product of more than a decade’s continuous work （1598-1611），Chapman’s translation of Homer’s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad。In muscular，onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles， the great warrior，and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy，and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans。 Chapman regarded the translation of this epic， and of Homer’s Odyssey （also available in Wordsworth Editions） as his life’s work， and dedicated himself to capturing the ’soul’ of the poem。
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit he has purchased hundreds of women--he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an quisite addition to the master's work.
在线阅读本书 During the French Revolution's reign of terror, the mysteriousScarlet Pimpernel rescues helpless men, women, and children fromtheir doom in this unique, wonderfully colorful adventureclassic.
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.
This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’sloveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalrywith a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest ofArden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as agentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage ofcharacters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her ownbanished father, and the banished young man she loves. Romantichappiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love, atthe ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in thismasterpiece of comic writing. 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 f
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure their future. The protagonists Darcy and Elizabeth learn much about themselves and those around them and Austen's expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer.
Based on the life of her brother, this unforgettable bookchronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders-and remains animportant work in the development of the novel form, and a shiningexample of Woolf's genius and literary daring.
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedypresents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—theseductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader MarkAntony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man tornbetween pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . .. between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in itssetting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranksamong Shakespeare's supreme achievements.
Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, MOBY-DICK is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told. MOBY-DICK, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature. Washington Square Press Enriched Classics presents the world's greatest literature in timeless editions designed for modern readers. Special features include a lively introduction with essential biographical and historical background, several critical perspectives, from traditional to contemporary, and a unique visual essay composed of authentic period illustrations and photographs that help bring every word to life.
These three masterworks placed the great seventeenth-centuryEnglish poet Milton beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, andVirgil in the pantheon of world literature. A monumental achievement,Parudise Lost is the epic poem about the magnificent Lucifer, whose failed rebellion against Heaven's tyranny casts him into thedarkness of Hell and leads to man's fall from grace. SamsonAgonistes, the greatest English drama modeled on the Greekclassics, depicts blinded, once-mighty Samson regaining his strength as God's champion and delivering his people-whilede-stroying himself and his captors. And "Lycidas" is animmortal elegy on lost hopes and the nature of fate. Written in a grandstyle of superb power, these works display a majesty of lan- guage, a sublime wealth of detail, and the unmistakable genius ofone of literature's greatest minds.
The most popular and memorable of the "Leatherstocking Tales": set in the rugged wilderness of upper New York State during the brutal French and Indian War, it tells the story of the Munro sisters, daughters of a commander in the British army.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Rostand's masterpiece-and the ultimate triumph of the greatFrench romantic tradition-is the magnificent hero-for-all-seasons,Cyrano de Bergerac.
Shakespeare shines a fierce spotlight on the jealous heart andon our attitudes toward the outsider. A story of its time and forour time, full of terror and beauty, Othello is urgent,gripping, radical, and beautiful. 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 from the Royal ShakespeareCompany set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for thetwenty-first century.
To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the mostcomprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's shortstories available in paperback. This superb volume brings togethertwenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his greatKlondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were ruggedindividuals, such as the Malemute Kid face the violence of man andnature during the Gold Rush Days. Also included are shortmasterpieces from his later writing, plus six stories unavailablein any ot her paperback edition. Here, along with London's famouswilderness adventures and fireband desperadoes, are portraits ofthe working man, the immigrant, and the exotic outcast: charactersrepresenting the entire span of the author's prolific imaginativecareer, in tales that have been acclaimed throughout the world assome of the most thrilling short stories ever written.
Book De*ion This farce follows SirJohn Falstaff--of the Henry IV plays--as he tries to woo twowealthy married women in this classic comedy. Includes specialIntroductions to the play by Green, a comprehensive stage historyof the play, and much more. Revised reissue. Book Dimension length: (cm)16.8 width:(cm)10.4
