Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics. At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ...(展开全部)

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women , and The Cyclops .

This is a great book to see in life in Investment Bank and Wall Street. Perhaps it's just a novel, but it can offer much more to the reader.

本书作者通过对莎士比亚主要的八个历史剧整体系列的综合阐释，通过分析莎士比亚对待这些历史主题所保持的精思熟虑以及他大多数历史剧的精致架构，让人们更加相信莎士比亚是受过教育的，在广阔的智慧和思考的力量上是可以媲美但丁和弥尔顿的诗人；他提升了编年史剧的水平，将编年史剧变成一种独立的真正的戏剧类型，而不只是悲剧的附属品。并且从一开始到最后、在他所有的历史剧中始终对秩序原则有着稳固的意识，并因为这种意识而与同时代那些更具哲学思维的作家们更为接近。 莎士比亚历史剧以史诗的方式表现了他头脑中的中世纪以及他那个时代的生活图景，其中心主题则是被置于庄严而高度道德化语境中的英格兰或国家主题。 在西方文教传统谱系中，不断有学人将莎士比亚与柏拉图并举。莎士比亚戏剧以历史舞台为背景，深涉人世政治问题的底蕴，尤其是王者问题，一再激发后人掂量人性和人世的幽微，为后世探究何谓优良政...(展开全部)

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Thirty years ago the bond and option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. By the mid-1990s the old school grizzled traders had been replaced by a new breed of quantitative analysts, applying mathematics to the "art" of trading and making of it a science. A similar phenomenon is happening in poker. The grizzled "road gamblers" are being re...(展开全部)

The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold ’em, lowball draw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters discuss the value o...(展开全部)