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。
A communications consultant and self-proclaimed“intellectual skeptic,”Herbert Kramerhad everything to live for-until he was diagnosed with incurable cancer at the age of 67. And suddenly Death,the unknown,unwelcomed enemy,was now his constant companion. But with the help of his wife,Kay-a chinical social worker and specialist in counseling-Herbert was able to voice his apprehensions,to confront his fears openly and honestly,and,ultimately,to come to terms with his own mortality. CONVERSATIONS AT MIDNIGHT is their dialogue-a powerful，important,and comforting aid to coping with death's finality…a profoundly inspirational journey to understanding,personal discovery and inner peace.
Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed.Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England.Likewise,the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls,from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman,"all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will,of course,be no winner.The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet.The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield,whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text,brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama.However,to abridge Dickens is,well,a Dickensian task,the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in w
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover,Lord Alfred Douglas.He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor.The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life,which was published anonymously in 1898.This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues,The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be amodel cou-ple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young childrenand a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too youngand started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. AndApril never saw herself as a housewife.Yet they have always livedon the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.But now that certainty is about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, RichardYates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritualbirthright, betraying not only each other, but their bestselves.
The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of thegreatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-knownpoets. Each collection has a specially commissionedintroduction. This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from thehauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still bestremembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond questionhis status as one of the foremost poets of his age.
Since the original prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the "Penguin Proust" that makes Proust accessible to anew generation. Each volume is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
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
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of "In Searchof Lost Time," refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchessde Guermantes's chateau near Combray. It also represents thenarrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of theGuermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectual playground forParisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and mannersof the Guermantes's drawing room. Here he encounters nobles,officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert deSaint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron deCharlus, and the Prince de Borodino. For this authoritativeEnglish-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the lateTerence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff'stranslation to take into account the new definitive French editionsof "A la recherche du temps perdu" (the final volume of these neweditions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in1989).
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"The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories" contains ten ofHemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.Selected from "Winner TakeNothing, Men Without Women, " and "TheFifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, " this collectionincludes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories tobe accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical"Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time inHemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Lifeof Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation,heresay, and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, CarlosBaker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I putall the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fillfour novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in theiroriginality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories inthis volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at thetop of his form.
The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. In his introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality-to Kafka a perpetual human condition-lies at the heart of this essentially imaginative magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. Thus, The Castle is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, in which a labyrinthine world, described in simple language and absurd fantasy, reveals a profound truth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessentialself-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age ofChivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-centuryengineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of pastand present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias,destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’sfaith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, AConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilariouscomedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, autopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only oneof America’s greatest writers could pen.
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Callme Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride andPrejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. Andcertainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does formarriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and anunblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a countryvillage and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips,and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single manof good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer.Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival asan opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters.Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennetgirl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs.Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three youngerdaughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls,Jane and Elizabeth
In his draft Preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-knownstatement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is inthe pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over ayear, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem forDoomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader.Owen pointed out that 'All a poet can do today is to warn. That iswhy all true Poets must be truthful'. His warning was based on hisacute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on theWestern Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste ofthe First World War. This volume contains all Owen's best-knownpoems, only four of which were published in his lifetime. He waskilled a week before the Armistice in November 1918.
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Distinguished poet Horace Gregory has selected thirty-seven ofLongfellow's most enduring poems for this edition, the onlypaperback of Longfellow's poetry in print.
