A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, an...(展开全部)

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day.

萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950） 英国戏剧家。生于爱尔兰首都都柏林。父亲是破落 贵族。母亲是很有才能的音乐家。他从1879年开始文学 活动，一生共写剧本五十多部（还有小说和其他著作）。 数量之多，在英国文学史上前无古人；他敢于无情地挑 破社会的脓疮、人性的伪装，所产生的惊世骇俗的力 量。也是英国文学史上前无古人的。他1925年获得诺贝 尔文学奖。其主要剧作有《华伦夫人的职业》、《康蒂 妲》、《魔鬼的门徒》、《人与超人》、《芭巴拉少 校》、《苹果车》、《真相毕露》等。他写的《易卜生 主义的精华》一书，是现代欧洲戏剧史上的一部重要论 著。 《芭巴拉少校》是萧伯纳戏剧中颇为精彩的一部， 典型地反映出萧伯纳戏剧的艺术特色――幽默和讽刺。 他特别喜欢运用的手法是，使剧中人物发出似非而是的 妙论，不仅使人笑，使人啼，而且促人深...(展开全部)

In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day.

《鼠疫》以阿尔及利亚奥兰城突发鼠疫为背景，借医生里厄等市民的抗疫斗争，探讨灾难下人性的坚守、荒诞与存在的意义。

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long bee...(展开全部)