Decameron十日谈
作者:Giovanni Boccaccio (乔万尼 卜伽丘)
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781840221336
出版时间:2005-3
开本:32
页数:766
定价:69 元
内容简介:
1348.The Black Death is sweeping through Europe.In Florence,plague has carried off one hundred thousand people.In their Tuscan villas,seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost,weaving a rich tapestry of comedy,tragedy,ribaldry and farce.Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.Boccaccio makes the incredible believable,with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago.His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past-the Crusades,the Angevins,the courts of France,the legendary East-and the colourful squalor of contemporary life,where wives deceive husbands,friars and monks pursue fleshly ends,and natural instincts fight for satisfaction.Here are love and jealousy,passion and pride-and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class.These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation.
目录:
The Editor's Introduction
The Author's Preface
THE FIRST DAY" No set theme
Introduction
1 Saint Ciappelletto's Last Confession
2 Abraham goes to Rome
3 Saladin and the Jew
4 The monk, the abbot and the girl
5 The King of France and the Marquise
6 The simple man and the Inquisitor
7 Bergamino cures Can Grande of avarice
8 Guglielmo Borsiere shames Erminio dei Grimaldi
9 The King of Cyprus is stung into action
1O Alberto of Bologna and the young lady Conclusion
THE SECOND DAY" Joyful endings beyond all hopes
1 MarteUino pretends to be crippled
2 Rinaldo d'Asti is lodged for the night
3 Alessandro and the King's daughter
4 Landolfo Rufolo's shipwreck
5 Andreuccio goes to Naples
6 Madama Beritola marooned
7 Alatiel, the Sultan's daughter
8 The Count of Antwerp and his children
9 The wife of Bernabo vindicates her good name
10 The judge's wife and the pirate Conclusion
THE THIRD DAY: Desires fulfilled, losses recovered
1 Masetto the gardener and the nine nuns
2 King Agilulf, his wife, and the stable-boy
3 Confessions of a lady in love
4 A monk teaches Puccio the way to salvation
5 Zima's dialogue with a silent woman
6 Mistaken identities in a bath-house
7 Tedaldo, disguised as a pilgrim
8 Ferondo's visit to Purgatory
9 All's Well That Ends Well: Gillette wins her husband
10 Rustico teaches Alibech how to put the devil in Hell
Conclusion
THE fOURTH DAY:
1 Ghismonda dies for love
2 An angel goes to bed with Madonna Lisetta
3 Three sisters: a tragedy
4 Gerbino's crime and execution
5 Lisabetta and the pot of basil
6 The death of Gabriotto
7 The poisoned sage bush
8 The death of Girolamo and Salvestra
9 The eaten heart
10 An anaesthetic farce
Conclusion
THE FIFTH DAY:Happiness after cruel adventures
THE SIXTH DAY:The art of the sharp reply
THE SEVENTH DAY:The tricks women play on their husbands
THE EIGHTH DAY:Tricks by women on men on women,men on men
THE NINTH DAY:No set theme
THE NENTH DAY:Tales of generosity and magnificence
The Author's Conclusion
The Iliad and the Odyssey伊里亚特与奥德赛
作者: Homer(荷马)
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781840221176
出版时间:1997-8
开本:32
页数:884
定价:69 元
内容简介:
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseusbound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom,Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenesfrom Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questionsabout mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds oflove, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have grippedaudiences for three millennia. Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey aregreat English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliestand readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes theeveryday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as thebattlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by theexcitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisationas at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectivesof humanist thought.
目录:
Generalintroduction
IntroductiontotheIliad
IntroductiantotheOdyssey
Suggestionsforfurtherreading
Noteonlinenumbering
Glossaryofunfamiliarwords
Glossaryofnames
THEILIAD
THEODYSSEY
The Great Comedies and Tragedies最伟大的悲喜剧
作者:William Shakespeare(威廉•莎士比亚)
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781840221459
出版时间:2005-3
开本:32
页数:896
定价:69 元
内容简介:
The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. The Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil. The plays throw a fascinating light on the concerns of Shakespeare's day, yet offer perennial insights into the nature of human emotion.
目录:
Note on the text
THE FOUR COMEDIES
Introduction to the four comdies
AMIDSUMMER NIGHT`S DREAM
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
AS YOU LIKE IT
TWELFTH NIGHT
THE FIVE TRAGEDIES
ROMEO AND JULIET
HAMLET
OTHELLO
KING LEAR
MACBETH
Jewish Antiquities犹太古事记
作者:Flavius Josephus(弗拉维乌斯 约瑟夫斯)
出版社:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781840221329
出版时间:2006-2
开本:32
页数:902
定价:69 元
内容简介:
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs in the two hundred years that led up to the revolt. William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, published his famous translation of Josephus' works in 1737. The modern system of chapter divisions has been added.
目录:
Introduction
Maps
Further Reading
Preface
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Book Eleven
Book Twelve
Book Thirteen
Book Fourteen
Book Fifteen
Book Sixteen
Book Seventeen
Book Eighteen
Book Nineteen
Book Twenty