The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah and The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy.
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is theclassic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to thetwenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representationof essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney'saward-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, andMore's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of thenineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennysonand Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a trulyglobal English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's ARoom of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel'sTranslations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—andthematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bringto life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses andannotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes,timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand andenjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, David Martin makes his living by writing sensationalist novels. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at an unsolved mystery. Then he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike any other - a book with the power to change hearts and minds. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home...
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.
Translated by Michael J. Oakley The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic private voice is given full expression both in the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, and in the fateful clash between the Trojan leader and the Italian hero, Turnus. Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years.
Macbeth is one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies: a drama of crime and punishment, of temptation, guilt, remorse and retribution. The portrayals of Macbeth himself and his wife are memorably persuasive in the rendition of the psychology of ambition,rationalised treachery and eventual disillusionment. Repeatedly the rich and often sinuously complex verse gives general resonance to the particular situation, so that some of the speechesprovide enduring epitomes of states of being which many of us,intermittently, may experience. Inner division, pangs of conscience, the sense of being ambushed by events, and desperatedefiance: they are there; but so too is a vitality of expression and enactment which offsets the plays sombre atmosphere.
A philosopher and his disciple journey to find "the best of all possible worlds" in this classic work of eighteenth-century satire. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers 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 help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including 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 Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the wo
Peter Pan is the boy who never grows up. Bringing the Darling children to Neverland, Peter introduces them to a world in which he and the Lost Boys are farever battling the evil Captain Hook, and Tinkerbell the ir-ritable fairy is the only mother any of them know... PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per-fect introduction to the world-famous PENGUIN CLASSICS series - which en-compasses the best books ever written, from Homer's Odyssey to Orwelrs 1984 and everything in between. For a full list and ideas on what to read next, visit www.penguinclassics.com
Crime Scene is a sparkling collection of short stories writtenby modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Withinthese pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in agreat variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnitto the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crimeprocedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darklyhumorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crimestory has developed and matured over the last two hundred years orso into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertainingform of fiction it is today. The impressive cast of contributorsincludes well-respected and well-established names such as PeterLovesey, Edward Marston, Natasha Cooper, Judith Cutler and RussellJames as well as those currently making their reputation as fineexponents of their craft and a few young lions whose work isbristling with promise. Crime Scene is a treasure chest of delightsfor the fans of crime fiction.
The love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for aBritish expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy,middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their ownchoosing. Publisher Comments: This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim proprietyamong an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italianpensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming youngEnglish woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellowBritisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza.Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitableand whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war withthe snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back inEngland she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor,and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that willdecide the course of her future: she is forced to choose betweenconvention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale ofromantic intrigue is rooted in
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.
With his first groundbreaki'ng book, Soul Prints, Marc Gafni taught readers how to tread a lifelong path of meaning by realizing their true, unique selves. Now, in The Mystery of Love, the profound philosopher and beloved spiritual teacher invites readers to the next step on the journey, addressing with passion, wisdom, and genuine humility the all-important issues of love, creativity, and our erotic connection to the universe. In the tradition of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled and Gary Zukov's The Seat of the Soul, The Mystery of Love speaks pene-tratingly to the age-old desire to move beyond emptiness and alienation and touch the full eros of living. Gafni, with clarity, bril- liance, and great compassion, re-frames our understandings of the erotic and the sensual in a way that invites us to live with passion and love in all facets of our lives. While drawn from the ancient wisdom texts of the Kabbalist tradi-tion, The Mystery of Love speaks to all readers who seek a passionate, joyful, yet
"Men Without Women" was a milestone in Hemingway's career."Fiesta" had already established him as a novelist of exceptionalpower, but with these short stories, his second collection, heshowed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, torecreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life detailsobserved only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway'smen are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers,gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculinetoughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pareddown to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel by American abolitionist authorHarriet Beechehr Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Thework was first published on March 20, 1852. The story focuses onthe tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave, the centralcharacter around whose life the other characters—both fellow slavesand slave owners—revolve. The novel dramatizes the harsh reality ofslavery while also showing that Christian love and faith canovercome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow humanbeings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century(and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible)and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies ofthe book were sold. The book's impact was so great that whenAbraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the American Civil War,some historians believe he said, "So you're the little woman whowrote the book that made this great wa
The growing interest in Afro American literature that began in the 1960s led to the rediscovery of earlier Afro-American writers, one of whom was Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Originally pubhshed in 1923, Cane is generally considered a principle literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. It is an innovative work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction. "Backgrounds" contains gcnerous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cana), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds to the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer. Critical commentary, both contemporary and more recent, on Cane and More Recent, on Cane and Toomer is wide-ranging, Included are essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson, Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay, and Darwin T.
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron; ruthless manipulator,brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellin cartel. A man whoseimportance in the international drug trade and renown for hischaritable work among the poor brought him influence and power inhis home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of theAmerican courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President'sdetermination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the bestbargaining tools he could find: hostages. In the winter of 1990,ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abductedand held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the governmentinto blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, andfrom their harrowing stories Marquez retells, with vivid clarity,the terror and uncertainty of those dark and volatile months.
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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在线阅读本书 THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosiveON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the literary map andKerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour andcontagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparksthis one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books followtwo young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth.Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takesthem climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson ofsolitude.
It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versusEvil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-thesupreme embodiment of chivalry and honor.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition. Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love.
