Book Description The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been thoroughly re- shaped and expanded to take account of the needs of students and their professors at the dawn of the third millennium. The seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the book a classic. New features include a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colonial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Muldoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom" "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised and many have been completely rewritten for the new edition. Capping it all is Seamus Heaney's wonderful new verse translation of Beowulf which has been eagerly awaited. Synopsis The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship, and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality. The Editors: M. H. Abrams, General Editor, Emeritus, Cornell University E. Talbot Donaldson, Late of Indiana University Alfred David, Emeritus, Indiana University Hallett Smith, Formerly with The Huntington Library Barbara K. Lewalski, Harvard University Robert M. Adams, Late of University of California, Los Angeles George M. Logan, Queen's University Samuel Holt Monk, Late of the University of Minnesota Lawrence Lipking, Northwestern University Jack Stillinger, University of Illinois George H. Ford, Late of the University of Rochester Carol T. Christ, University of California at Berkeley David Daiches, Emeritus, University of Sussex Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Book Dimension length: (cm)23.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)14.1

在线阅读本书 Book Description Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world. Each Edition Includes: ? Comprehensive explanatory notes ? Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship ? Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English ? Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories ? An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography From the Publisher An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.6 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh.s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. In addition to its themes of family, friendship and duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind's eternal struggle with the fear of death. The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George's gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English Gilgamesh.

20世纪最杰出女作家/世界三大意识流作家之一/女权主义运动的先驱人物 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙最具代表性的散文作品 随书附赠梵高、罗杰·弗莱、贝尔（伍尔芙姐姐）精美画作卡片四张 《飞蛾之死》是伍尔芙最为著名的散文。在文中，她为我们描述了一只飞蛾的悲剧命运。在注定无法突围而出的舞台上，飞蛾用它全部的精神和勇气不断向外飞翔，又一次次被阻挡，最终迎接了自己死亡的命运。文中，伍尔芙的笔调悲悯而热诚，就是这样一只微不足道的飞蛾，它在最后时刻，仍然在让自己的生命燃烧，不懈地追求着光明和希望。飞蛾小小的不屈灵魂和精神，加之伍尔芙饱满的热情，让这篇文章一直深受读者喜爱。更有人认为，伍尔芙通过《飞蛾之死》述说了自己的命运，这只飞蛾代她说出了她留给世间的遗言。 书中还收录了伍尔芙其他具有代表性的散文二十七篇。 我的头脑发生变化，它不再继续接纳印象了。它把自己关闭起来了。它变成了一只蛹。我躺着，处于相当麻木的状态，尽管肉体常常剧烈地疼痛着——接着，突然什么东西涌了出来……于是，所有的门都在打开，而我相信是那只飞蛾在我内心展翅飞舞。 ——弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙 没有哪个女作家能像弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙这样广博、雄辩，她对前辈及她同时代作家的大量的评论，显现出她视野的开阔和非凡、睿智的评判能力，显现出她表达的精确和思想的深邃。她对写作女性和职业女性命运的关注，表明她对性别群体在民族传统中的位置和处境的极大关注，那些叛逆的理论探索，使她成为女权主义理论的先驱。 ——嘉男 她全部创作之丰富和成就之巨大——不仅是九部小说、女性主义文章、书籍评论和《罗杰·弗莱伊传》，而且还有发表在杂志上的文章、日记以及书信，其中相当一部分是在她去世后出版的，现在还不断出版——使她一度曾被指责为狭隘的作品变得越来越成为她的时代、她的精神世界和现代艺术思想的精髓。 ——马尔科姆·布拉德伯里