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.
(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.
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
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".
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.
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.
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.
It begins with a curse,a son and a hanging,and it buildas into a magnificent adventure no reader will ever forger.At once a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the firerce spirit of a passionater age,THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH is without doubt Ken Follett's masterpiece,and a story for all time.
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 a newgeneration. Each volume is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of"The Kitchen Boy" Book groups and historical fiction buffs havemade Robert Alexanderas two previous novels word-of-mouth favoritesand national bestsellers. Set against a backdrop of ImperialRussiaas twilight, "The Romanov Bride" has the same enduringappeal. The Grand Duchess Elisavyetaas story begins like a fairytaleaa German princess renowned for her beauty and kind heartmarries the Grand Duke Sergei of Russia and enters the Romanovaslavish court. Her husband, however, rules his wife as he doesMoscowawith a cold, hard fist. And, after a peaceful demonstrationbecomes a bloodbath, the fires of the revolution link Elisavyetaasdestiny to that of Pavelaa young Bolshevikaforever.
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbulwhen he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector ColonelHaki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysteriousDimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law,whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated bythe story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps acrossEurope to gather material for a new book. But, as he graduallydiscovers more about his subject's shadowy history, fascinationtips over into obsession. And, in entering Dimitrios' criminalunderworld, Latimer realizes that his own life may be on theline.
For many people watching football is mere entertainment；to Some it’S more like a ritual：but to others，its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby his devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things-like growing up，Leaving home and forming relationships．both parental and romantic-have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal．
" A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum ' because he could see no more." But to its residents thisderelict corner of Trinidad' s capital is a complete world, whereeverybody is quite different from everybody else. There' s Popo thecarpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build " the thing withouta name." There' s Man-man, who goes from running for public officeto staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bullywith glass tear ducts. There' s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrallto her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S.Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighborsconstruct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhoviancompassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed- butprecociously observant- neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a workof mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy andanarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.
The definitive account of Germany's maligntransformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable marchto war. By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic hadbeen transformed into the police state of the Third Reich,mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If thiscould happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Onlythe most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted howradical the transformation ahead would be. In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans tells the story ofGermany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life,from literature, culture, and the arts to religion, education, andscience, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepareGermany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted topenetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encounteringmany kinds and degrees of resistance along the way but graduallywinning the acceptance of the German people in the long run. Those who were seen as unfit
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known by the title of"The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners inChinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Debtof Tears" is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of theillustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with thefortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters,Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour,realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects theritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and abovethe novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another planeof existence a theme, which affirms the Buddhist belief in asupernatural scheme of things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer,transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writingseveral classics of aviation literature, including "Southern Mail"and "Night Flight". Based on Saint-Exupery's trail-blazing flightsfor the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, theAndes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility ofthe airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in opencock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.
Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the city and witnesses the rise of the fiery young priest, Savanarola, who has set out to rid the city of vice, richness, even art itself. Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose between the old ways of the luxury-loving Medicis and the asceticism of Savanorola. And through it all, there is the painter, whose love will change everything.
Herzog is alone, now that Madeleine has left him for his bestfriend. Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats,he is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People rumouredthat his mind had collapsed. But was it true? Locked for days inthe custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls franticletters which he never mails. His mind buzzes with conundrums andpolemics, writing in a spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is hecrazy, or is he a genius?..
"The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman whotransforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals whoplan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology andher bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpectedchallenges in their quest to incite social change againstcomplacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of theintersections between the personal and the political, Nobellaureate Doris Lessing creates in "The Good Terrorist" a compellingportrait of domesticity and rebellion.
Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creativepowers, the stories in "Winner Take Nothing" glow with the mark ofhis unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters,fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on theraw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. Thecharacters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insightcould have come only from Hemingway's imagination. As anintroduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes hedeveloped at greater length in his novels, it is a stunninglysuccessful collection.
V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acutesocial observation is on abundant display in these classic works offiction–two novels and a collection of stories–that capture therhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressivesubtlety and humor. The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on anelectoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where thecandidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernaturalsabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr. Stone and the KnightsCompanion is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habitswhose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage andunanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in AFlag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery inTrinidad–whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes aChinese name–to a rooming house in London–where the genteellandlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars.Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here isthe wo
