彭斯的诗歌涉及人生的方方面面：生与死、爱情、友谊、幸福、真理、良知、青春、博爱、宗教、诚实、荣誉等等，不一而足。其诗有深刻的思想内涵，充满哲理，发人深省，震撼灵魂，使我们对人生能获得醍醐灌顶的顿悟。译者以为，这些小诗表现了诗人对爱情的忠贞，对朋友的忠诚，对生活的热爱，对自由、平等、博爱的向往，对真、善、美的追求，对人生的探索……能扩大我们的视野，启迪我们的智慧，陶冶我们的情操，净化我们的灵魂，丰富我们的人生；而且，诗的语言简洁、凝练、流畅、优荚，字字珠玑，能带给我们美的享受。

在线阅读本书 Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming villain Lovelace haunt the imagination as fully as Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde.

William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.

本书是卞之琳翻译的莎士比亚四大悲剧之一——《麦克白斯》。苏格兰国王邓肯的表弟麦克白将军，为国王平叛和抵御人侵立功归来，他在野心的驱使下谋杀邓肯，做了国王。为掩人耳目和防止他人夺位，他一步步害死了邓肯的侍卫，害死了班柯，害死了贵族麦克德夫的妻子和小孩。恐惧和猜疑使麦克白心里越来越有鬼，也越来越冷酷。麦克白夫人神经失常而自杀，对他也是一大刺激。在众叛亲离的情况下，麦克白面对邓肯之子和他请来的英格兰援军的围攻，落得袅首的下场。

From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.