Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle groun...
Three years after September 11,we are still danger-ously unprepared to prevent or respond to another attack on American soil.Faced with this threat,the United States should be operating on a wartime footing at home.But despite the many new security precautions that have been proposed,our most serious vulnerabil-ities r...
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington t...
His breathing was so slight she could scarcely detect it,even when she lowered her face to his,The smell of him,like new bread,or was it her smell?She could not tell.He and I smell identical,she thought,smiling in the darkness.The barn was softly warm,and the warmth and softness wrapped around mother and child as they ...
Accomplished dancer Iara Trudeau drops dead of a heat attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills.To former private investigator Quinn OCasey,its a simple case of death by misadventure.But when his brother Doug,a Miami Dade patrolman,asks for help,he cant refuse.Especially when he learns that lara and ...
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play. Act and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception: scene ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the concluding scenes numbered accordingly. The Th...
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish pla...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Penelope Fitzgerald, who diedin 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable Englishwrit ers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades shepublished three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of shor...
"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders...
When it was published in1897. DracuAla became one of the many contemporary titles that pitted humans against monsters.Robert Louis Stevenson，Rudvard Kipling，and H.G.Wells，among others.all published in the same genre at about the same time.Yet it is DraciAlgl that readers cannot forget.The text of this Norton Critical E...
With her indomitable flair for giving readers what they love most, Diana Palmer delivers a searing, explosive story in which one man and one woman confront their splintered past and walk a precarious tightrope between life and death. Desperado is a novel readers will not soon forget. 作者簡介 diana palmer is a prolif...
So much has now been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. Rumours abound; his own statements often fail to clarify controversial issues. The truth may be stranger than any fiction, such is the uniqueness of the world ...
""He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows whateverything feels like, how everything works. He is putting togethera body of work which in substantial intelligent creation willeventually be seen as second to none in our time."--William H.Pritchard, The Hudson Review, reviewing Museums and Women (1972)" ...
As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities ofthe human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of anextraordinary range of characters. In "Making an Elephant", hisfirst ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Swift bringstogether a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest epic masterpiece. More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas F...
In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice. This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty...
