(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.

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.

(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.

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,

'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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's toweringreputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modernsensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelisticvirtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense andmelodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work soimmensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. "The BrothersKaramazov," his last and greatest novel, published just before hisdeath in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between theoutsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It isabove all the story of a murder, told with hair-raisingintellectual clarity and a feeling for the human conditionunsurpassed in world literature. This award-winning translation byRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-the definitive version inEnglish-magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies ofDostoevsky's masterpiece.

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, TarBaby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. JadineChilds is a black fashion model with a white patron, a whiteboyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son isa black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires.As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from theCaribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all thenuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites,masters and servants, and men and women.

Introduction by Ron PowersIncludes Newly Commissioned EndnotesArguably the first major American novel to satirize the politicalmilieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes thatexploded across the nation in the years that followed the CivilWar, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-writtenby Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel isrife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, andblindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance,murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 andfilled with unforgettable characters such as the vaingloriousColonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Ageis a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history.

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

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.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From one of the most brilliantand influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, sixshort stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both hisessays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913--1960) de-ployed hislyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing anaffirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of auniverse devoid of order or meaning. "The Plague"-written in 1947and still profoundly relevant-is a riveting tale of horror,survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic."The Fall" (1956), which takes the form of an astonishingconfession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is ahaunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The sixstories of "Exile and the Kingdom "(1957) represent Camus at theheight of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting hischaracters-from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife -atdecisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictionalcounterparts, Camus's famous essays

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

Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles,mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up threecars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the LittleGrandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for thesummer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothersand to understand her place on this side of the border and that,Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she startstelling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to howshe got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating.Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwindexploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished"rebozo," or shawl, that has been passed down through generationsof Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history,family, and love.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailedas the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five workslong enough to be called short novels-here brought together in onevolume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by theaward-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky."The Steppe"-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of anine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across thesteppe of southern Russia. "The Duel "sets two decadent figures-afanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on acollision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In"The Story of an Unknown Man," a political radical spying on animportant official by serving as valet to his son graduallydiscovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-heldpriorities in startling ways. "Three Years" recounts a complexseries of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscowmerchant. In "My Life," a man renounces wealth and social positionfo

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).

In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a characteras compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable HenryBech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in aworld of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, heviews life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make youlaugh with delight and wince in recognition.

From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countrysideblacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of navalhero Admiral Nelson, England’s most famous native son. She servedas model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe’s most renownedartists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court ofNaples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, pennilessand alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps thespectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beautyEmma, Lady Hamilton—as she came to be called—a woman of abundantaffection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity wasrivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal.Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics,passions, and enchantments of her day.

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and itsunflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a stormof controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly inresponse, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writingaltogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though wehave come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuingcentury, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power toshock us and disturb our dreams.