The Three Musketeers三个火枪手
作者:Alexandre Dumas père
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781853260407
出版时间:1997-8-1
开本:32
页数:564
定价:40 元
内容简介:
Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion
Uncle Tom's Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋
作者:HarrietBeecherStowe
出版社:WordsworthEditionsLtd
ISBN:9781840224023
出版时间:1999-12
开本:32
页数:480
定价:40 元
内容简介:
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the rnost popular,influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery,and resoundingly concludes that only‘repentance,justice and mercy’will prevent the onset of‘the wrath of Almighty God!’.
The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe as‘the little lady’ who started the great Civi War,As Keith Carabine argues in his lively and provocative Introduction. the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among Northern and Southern readers,moderate and radical abolitionist groups,blacks and women with regard to issues of form. genre,politics,religion,race and gender,that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies.
A Tale of Two Cities双城记
作者:CharlesDickens查尔斯 狄更斯
出版社:WordsworthEditionsLtd
ISBN:9781853260391
出版时间:1992-05
开本:32
页数:352
定价:40 元
内容简介:
狄更斯的重要代表作之一。这部小说在思想和艺术上都是狄更斯的杰作之一。 “双城”指的是巴黎和伦敦,作者以法国大革命为当今英国社会的借鉴。小说分为3 部,情节围绕梅尼特医生的经历展开。狄更斯这部小说借古讽今的意义十分鲜明,作为人道主义者,他反对不人道的阶级压迫,客观上表现出革命的合理性,警告英国的统治阶级,别让不满情绪酿成像法国革命那样的大火;但他又反对一切暴力行为,劝诫人们不要采取“愚蠢行为”,把“爱”祭为消除阶级对抗的法宝。
Dracula吸血伯爵德古拉
作者:Bram Stoker
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd;New edition
ISBN:9781853260865
出版时间:1999-12
开本:32
页数:352
定价:40 元
内容简介:
There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, forthe white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, thecheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath;the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of freshblood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran overthe chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongstthe swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath werebloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simplygorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with hisrepletion.' Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of thesupernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of hischilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale ofvampirism.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland爱丽斯漫游仙境
作者:LEWIS CARROLL
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781853260025
出版时间:1998-4-1
开本:32
页数:288
定价:40 元
内容简介:
Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land/Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story.
The Odyssey奥德塞
作者:Homer
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781853260254
出版时间:1997-8
开本:32
页数:512
定价:40 元
内容简介:
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures ofOdysseus,Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return tohis homeisland of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourfuladventures,his endurance, his love for his wife and son have thesame power tomove and inspire readers today as they did in ArchaicGreece, 2800years ago. This poem has been translated many timesover the years,but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616)stands in a classof its own. Chapman believed himself inspired bythe spirit ofHomer himself, and matches the breadth and power ofthe originalwith a complex and stunning idiom of his own. JohnKeats expressedhis admiration for the resulting work in the famoussonnet, 'Onfirst looking into Chapman's Homer': 'Much have Itravelled in therealms of gold...'