On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, want...(展开全部)

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, want...(展开全部)

Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philoso...(展开全部)

本書為短篇小說集，收錄包括〈Brokeback Mountain斷背山〉等多篇作品。 《紐約時報》書評：「對《Close Range》書中角色而言，壯觀富麗又震懾人心的地理是他們的守護神。書中人物的生活是奮力向前卻徒勞無功的上坡路，下坡路卻是狂亂失控的旅程。普露以散文體書寫人物，筆法狂暴﹑震撼﹑嫻熟，一筆將人物帶至邊緣，再作勢讓人物超越極限。」 《華盛頓郵報．書香世界》：「散文體的筆法，加上故事的創意，讓本書瑩潤光明。書中每一句文詞均令人讚嘆，令人拍案叫絕。」 本書收錄以懷俄明州為背景的11則短篇，有多篇單篇獲獎，其中〈斷背山〉榮獲1998年歐‧亨利短篇小說獎和全美雜誌獎。 作者Annie Proulx描繪出在殘酷艱難的自然環境下，命運多舛的角色，顯現熟練出色的文字和對懷俄明狂烈的摯愛。奇異、非現實的元素，為故事添上許多色彩，更淬...(展开全部)

Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas—two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, “I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of drama...(展开全部)

Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas—two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, “I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of drama...(展开全部)

Novelist, playwright, and biographer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His major works include "No Exit," "Nausea," "The Wall," "The Age of Reason," "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Being and Nothingness," and "Roads to Freedom," an allegory of man's search for commitment, and not, as the man at the off-...(展开全部)

Novelist, playwright, and biographer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His major works include "No Exit," "Nausea," "The Wall," "The Age of Reason," "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Being and Nothingness," and "Roads to Freedom," an allegory of man's search for commitment, and not, as the man at the off-...(展开全部)

Suitable for both beginning and advanced students, Geoffrey Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems are extensively glossed and accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. The contexts section roots the poems in their classical and medieval foundations. The editor has judiciously chosen six critical essays that address the poems' central...(展开全部)

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comi...(展开全部)