"The Metamorphosis and Other Stories," by Franz Kafka, is partof the ""Barnes and Noble Classics" "series, which offers qualityeditions at affordable prices to the student and the generalreader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages ofcarefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable featuresof "Barnes and Noble Classics": New introductions commissioned fromtoday's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and culturalevents Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations,parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, andfilms inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Studyquestions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further reading Indices and Glossaries, whenappropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed tosuperior specifications; some include illustrations of historicalinterest. "Barnes and Noble Classics "pulls together

在线阅读本书 The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944),was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHTFLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance anddiscipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND AND STARSand FLIGHT TO ARRAS, stress his humanistic philosophy.Saint-Exupéry's popular children's book THE LITTLE PRINCE is alsoread by adults for its allegorical meaning. Saint-Exupéry's planedisappeared during a mission in World War II.

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Published for the exhibition in Milan between March 4th and June 29th, 2008, this catalog offers a selection of approximately sixty works by Bacon. The collection spans his works from his first paintings in the 1930s, which reveal how early he was attracted to a figure’s deformation and ambiguity, to his late triptychs, in which the artist’s existential torment seems to move towards a suffered serenity. This publication includes important contributions from leading international scholars as well as technical information on all the exhibition works. Artworks are gathered from such prestigious museums as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Birmingham Museum, the Sara Hilden Museum in Tampere, the Fondazione Beyeler in Basel, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea in Caracas, the Toyota Municipal Museum in Aichi, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The publication also includes a series of documents—drawings,

Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.

Living on the Nottinghamshire coalfields, the Morel family is beset with conflict. Gertrude, disillusioned with her inarticulate working class husband, pours her energies and aspirations into her son, Paul. Tensions develop when Paul falls in love and seeks to escape from his family ties.

The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance,while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called bythe name of the wolf, it s no wonder, then, that tales oftransformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent.This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest andmost unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests ofTransylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate,here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encountershadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses,crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But youwill also find the werewolf in less expected guises as an adversaryfor Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figurerestored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With aninformative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the tracesof the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superbcollection will make you

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is toknow what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide. Michel had been ablindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis.His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire torebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. Butthe freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restlesstravels is won at great cost. And freedom itself, he finds, can bea burden. Gide's novel examines the inevitable conflicts that arisewhen a pleasure seeker challenges conventional society and, withoutmoralizing, it raises complex issues involving the extent ofpersonal responsibility.

For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings, as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg. Evoking Melville’s fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846. The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville’s interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person’s "q

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.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure and shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world full of the fantastical and extraordinary.

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic aswell as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. Hiswriting attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverseas Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet AllenGinsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England'smost original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginativeenergies and subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction.This volume contains many of his writings, including: Songs ofInnocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Miltonand Jerusalem.

In Derry,Maine,four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing.Something that cahanged them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later,the boys are men who have gone their separate ways.though they still get together once a year,to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different.This time a man comes stumbling into their camp,lost,disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long,these old friends will be plundge into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creatur form another world.Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcaticher. 作者简介： Step King was born in Portland,Main e,in 1947.He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English,while his wife,tabitha,got her degree. It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptaion that set him on tis way to his present position sa perhaps the bests

Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. The Muder Of Roger Ackroyd Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Wishing she could enjoy the freedoms and pleasures so casuallyenjoyed by ordinary women, orthodox rabbi's daughter Rachelanticipates her arranged marriage and imagines what her life willbe like. Reprint.

The havoc wrought on lovers by magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the furious battle of the sexes waged in The Taming of the Shrew, and a stranded woman finding her way in a man's world in Twelfth Night -- this collection of three of Shakespeare's greatest comedies is based on the acclaimed individual Folger editions of the plays. The present volume offers accurate texts in modern spelling, full explanatory notes, and scene-by-scene action summaries.

Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the naxis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Nowk, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet and Anne more real ,more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl-stubbornly honest ,touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secet world of sous-searching and hungering for affection,m rebllious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death ,and the petty frustrations of such confined puarters Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her yeras. Her story is that of every teenager,lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known. 作者简介： Anne Frank kept a diary from June 12, 1942,to August 1, 1944. Initially, she wrote it stric

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle ofnovels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome ofD’Artagnan，Athos，Porthos and Aramis，who first appeared in The ThreeMusketeers。Some thirty-five years on，the bonds of comradeship areunder strain as they end up on different sides in a power strugglethat may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of theFrench monarchy。 In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark，Dumaspitches us straight into the action。What is the secret shared byAramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear itsrevelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? Andwhat is the nature of the threat he poses？ Dumas，the master storyteller，keeps us reading until the climacticscene in the grotto of Locmaria，a fitting conclusion to the epicsaga of the musketeers。

Since its publication in 1911, The Secret GaMen has delighted generations of readers with its timeless appeal. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has been reworked into plays and films. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatoU annotations. Frances Hodgson Burnett published more than fifty novels (most for adults, but also Little LorJ Faetlero)') and thirteen plays. She was the highest-paid and most famous woman writer of her time; from the age of eighteen, she never experienced rejection of her work by a publisher. Born and raised in England and transplanted to the United States as a teenager during the waning days of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries today both countries claim her as their own. "Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" inform readers about various aspects of Burnett's life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations suggest her p

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

As One of the great classics of economics.this influential work was written by the noted eighteenth-century philosopher and political economist It was the first systematic formulation of classical English economics.Adam Smith's name is popularly associated with his belief that self-interest would operate to bring to bring about the healthiest economic conditions for all,i.e.a laissez-faire system.based on an absolutely free economy.This work is not only marvelously rich in infrmation about earlier historical periods and acute in its observation of the contemporary scence.it is also a great work of political philosophy.The first great survey of economic life in all its interdependence.this book is recognized as the framework for the development of political economy as a separate discipline.

Variety called John Pierson the"guru of independent film."Why?Perhaps because he wrote Spike Leea$10,000 check to finish She's Cotta Have it,and sold Michael moore's documentary Roger&Me to Warnet Brothers for$3 mill.Moore's it's because he helped make"slacker"a houshold word with richard Linklater's 1991 film,has seen over 1.000 debut features,and unlike most inde pendent film companies,managed not to lose his shirt while backing the movies he supported.In short he's been at the epicenter of the tumultuous last decade that changed independent film forever and launched a new generation of hilarious,ambitlous,talented,and sometimes whackek filmmakers. In Spike,Mike,Slackerk&Dyker John Pierson uses his own experience to tell the unvarnished truth about the importance of timing and marketing the personal and professional politics of filmfinancing;creating a sensation on the film festival circuit;the dark side of overnitht success;and the anatomy of deals that get films to a theater somewhere near you. Sp

Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon'EVENING STANDARD 'Delightfully observant nostalgia.., will strike a chord with both sexes' SHE 'A warm, funny romantic comedy' DAILY MAIL 'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' THE TIMES "Thirty means only going to the pub if there,s somewhere to sit down, Thiity means owning at least one classical CD, even if it's New That's What I Call Classical Vol 6. Thirty means calling off the search for the perfect partner because now, after al! thee years in the wilderness, you've finally found what you've been looking for." Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him.and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Within hours,his mum and dad