There is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. 60 volumes Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2" D Overall Width of Set: 65"(5'5") Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas -

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands.

Theory of Literature(1985) 中文名：韦勒克、沃伦《文学理论》英文版 Author: Rene Wellek and Austin Warren Publisher: Peregrine Books Year: 1985 Language: English Imagecount: 390 书籍简介：这是一本有关文学的本质、功能、形式及内容的经典理论著作，作者以“文学的外部研究”和“文学的内部研究：构筑其理论体系，超越了多年以来文学理论架构的传统模式。本书是在文学研究方面最富条理、范围最广、最有针对性的尝试之一。值得注意的是，该书出版以来，即作为最经典的文学理论教材受到全球范围内专家、教授以及广大学生的欢迎。美国《星期六文学评论》的署名文章说：这部百科全书式的论著蕴涵了海量的信息，繁杂的材料被更有效地组合，行文简洁兼之针对性极强的分析，与传统的此类著作迥然不同，此书值得每一个学术图书馆收藏。

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney, that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

本书为目前国内唯一英汉对照的英国文化选本。选收了约翰逊、雷诺兹、吉本、怀特海德、伯林等五十余位名家的文章。涉及人文学科诸领域，折射出英国文化之精华。选文皆富于思想与文辞，为历代传诵之精品，大都系国内首次译介。译文多出自陆谷孙等知名学者、翻译家之手。堪称名作佳译，相得益彰。 本书有助于提高英语修养，有助于拓宽视野、陶冶情操、启发思想、增进文化素养。

It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Rosemary Ashton

《宠儿》堪称美国黑人历史的一座纪念碑。主要情节取材于一个真实的历史故事。小说中的主人公――女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕只身从肯塔基的奴隶庄园逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提，奴隶主循踪追至；为了使儿女不再重复自己做奴隶的悲惨命运，她毅然杀死了自己的一个女儿。十八年后奴隶制早已废除，而被她杀死的女婴还魂归来，以自己的出现日夜惩罚母亲当年的行 为，并以色相引诱欲与塞丝相好的保罗・D，企图独占母亲的爱……本书充分展示了作者高超的叙事技巧，极具艺术震撼力，曾轰动美国，系莫里森 的巅峰之作。

The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption.

A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel's Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.

本书是我国英语语言文学名家、复旦大学杰出教授陆谷孙先生在其“英美散文”课程讲稿基础上精心扩充而成，分“精读”、“泛读”两部分，凡二十篇，尽为名家妙笔。 精读部分收录弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙、D·H·劳伦斯、乔治·奥威尔、威廉·戈尔丁、琼·狄迪恩、斯蒂芬·金、比尔·布莱森等作品十篇，配以详尽的页尾注和以“ ”起首的文中注，并附作者介绍。泛读部分收录伯特兰·罗素、E·M·福斯特、E·B·怀特、戈尔·维达尔、哈罗德·品特、苏珊·桑塔格、巴拉克·奥巴马等作品十篇，附页尾简注及作者介绍。 本书旨在提高中级以上英语学习者对现当代英美散文的解读鉴赏能力，可作高等院校英语专业教材，也可供广大英语爱好者修习之用。所附光盘含陆先生授“英美散文”课实况视频若干。

《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》在中国赴美国的留学生中享有广泛的声誉，经过口口相传，几乎成了每一个出国留学者必备的英文写作指南。一个人必须首先了解规则才能够去打破它。这本经典的指导书是每个学生和写作者的必读之书。《风格的要素(全新修订版)(中英对照版)》以简短的篇幅阐明了英文朴实风格必须具备的基本原则，集中阐释了英语文法应用、写作技巧以及一般人在写作中常犯的错误等。

《现代英国名家文选》由复旦大学出版社出版。

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.

《苏东坡传》讲述了：林语堂，用美妙的英文向世界介绍中国人和中国历史文化，但是，囿于所处时代、社会环境和个人经历，他的思想认识不免带有历史的局限。20世纪30年代至50年代正是中国国内动荡变迁、破旧立新的时期，特定的创作背景无疑也给他的作品留下印痕。显而易见地，比如当时对朝代称谓与历史纪元的划定不统一(如称清朝为Manchu Dynasty)；且时无汉语拼音方案，专有名词均使用威妥玛拼音音译等。此外，也能发现作者在解读文化历史和社会生活现象时的不足，如反映在民族关系的表述上，称中国的一些少数民族为foreign blood、foreign race，乃至以Chinese特指Han Chinese等。

What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism amongst them.

在线阅读本书 Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing. Not to a starving writer. Not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Until then she's travelling.

英文影印版.90年代英语系列丛书.