This novel was Dostoyevsky's last and finest work, telling the story of the four Karamazov brothers—each with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of ra
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Tim Lott’s previous books are The Scent of Dried Roses, which was awarded the jR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, and White City Blue which won the Whitbread first no
Paul Ginsborg’s bestselling account of contemporary Italy chronicles this most recent and dynamic period in the country’s history. He examines the role of the family in Italian society and economy (a
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimen
It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast a
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their s
Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Emma.View our feature on Jane Austen. Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no ne
‘I felt something alive moving on my left Leg … when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not six Inches high’ Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliv
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napole
Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Pride and Prejudice.View our feature on Jane Austen.Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early det
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his d
Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As the
The fundamental concern of these works is the complex relationship between patient and analyst. Here Freud explores both the crucial importance of and the huge risks involved in patients' transference
This volume also contains the case history of five-year-old Little Hans's fear of horses; the Ratman's violent fears of rats gnawing into his father and lover; and the essay 'Some Character Types', in
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The "Canzoniere", a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he
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R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative a
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製,需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。 One of France's most influential love poets, Pierre de Ronsard embraced a variety of themes from politics, science, and philosophy
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Freud rarely treated psychotic patients (or, indeed, psychoanalysed people from their writings), but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition - revealed, most notably, in thi
The dramas Euripides wrote toward the end of his life are remarkable for their stylistic innovation and adventurous plots. Heracles stands apart in its stark portrayal of human suffering and the decep
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of chan
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 From the moment she walks from court having been charged with attempting to poison her husband, to her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude and wai
Hotel World – shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001 – by Ali Smith, award-winning Scottish author of The Accidental, intimately explores the lives of five women connec
Border Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness, evil and society. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of th
Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son Grayer, keeping on top of her studies
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Morgan has discovered that she is a blood witch - that means the people she thought were her parents and her sister are not related to her, that she is adopted. Morgan
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 On the verge of womanhood, Pollyanna's philosophy of gladness is put to the test when Dr. Chilton dies and Aunt Polly falls on hard times
Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama. The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversi
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Nigeria is staggeringly diverse, its population is split into some 300 different ethnic groups and its geography ranges from the dense tropical jungles of the south to
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical stren
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shar
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。A portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry,
"I have a surprise . . . this class is going to do the Christmas play!"Maya longs to be in Mr Kelly's play! She can already see herself on the stage, waving her arms around and saying her words so lou
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)When Dakota Pink decides to find out the truth about Medusa's baby monster, it is the beginning of a quest that will lead Dakota and her best friend, Treacle, away from the
In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of r
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and