《坎特伯雷故事》讲述当这三十几个来自不同阶层的人们开始讲故事的时候，人世百态便从他们的嘴里汩汩流出，欲望、贪婪、伪善、虚荣、阿谀情欲、忠贞以及美好的爱情等等各式各样的人性都赤裸裸地开放在腐朽的中世纪英国黑暗中。这部里程碑式的作品描写一群朝圣者来到伦敦泰晤士河南岸萨瑟克的泰巴旅店，正巧结为旅伴，同去朝拜1170年被刺身亡而被奉为殉难圣徒的坎特伯雷主教托马斯·阿·贝克特的圣祠；旅店主人建议朝圣者们在赴坎特伯雷城的来回路上讲几个故事以供旅途中的消遣，大家欣然同意，并请旅店主人担任裁判，看谁的故事讲得最好、最有意义又最有趣味。这二十九位朝圣者来自英国社会的不同阶层，个性各异，诗人在长达858行的“总引”中一一进行了生动细致的刻画：或温柔如少女，或唯利是图，或欺诈成性，或为宫廷式爱情的化身。在长达二千三百五十余行的故事前后引子与类型各不相同的二十四篇故事中，巴思妇人的开场白与故事最富于战斗性与现实性，这个为妇女的社会地位问题而大声疾呼的人物竟在中世纪慷慨陈词，提出男婚女嫁应该自由自主、他人不得干涉的主张，委实令人惊叹。卖赎罪券教士的无耻自白同样发人深省，这个灵魂堕落到不可救药的地步的教士，按其宗教职责本该劝人认罪而改恶从善以求重蒙神恩，却公然招摇撞骗，谈起自己的罪恶来又居然毫无愧色，诗人对这种无赖相的大胆揭露无疑是对黑幕重重的教会的辛辣讽刺。

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leatherbound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and the full-length novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". "The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" is part of "Barnes & Noble"'s series of quality leatherbound volumes. Each title in the series presents a classic work in an attractively designed edition bound in genuine bonded leather. These books make elegant additions to any home library.

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

AND did you really walk, said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If not exactly in the sky.

Forty-one of Poe’s most memorable poems—among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee"—reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.

这本《诗经》收录全部305篇，每篇诗歌都配有相应的解释及译文，使读者更容易理解。